New equipment purchase

by Ben Straw on March 16, 2010

I’m one of those podcasters that love to dream on the next equipment purchases I’ve got equipment magazines and catalogs allows open some where in the house, and finely I was able to drum up some money to upgrade things I wanted to get for my podcast.
My setup isn’t all that great although when I [...]

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    Odd places you may have not thought of to record your podcast

    There are many ways you can record your podcast. You can podcast from a car, train, semi, closet, a bar, or even walking in your neighborhood, or even a beach.
    When you are doing a podcast you do want a quiet room but there are some situations that you may want an ambient noise, noise [...]

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      Making your Production Computer Quiet

      by Ben Straw on March 2, 2010

      Making your Production Computer Quiet

      A few manufactures make quiet computers, but if you cant afford them you might need to do the work yourself. Weather your PC has just a little noise or like an F-16 while sitting at idle, eliminating the noise is easy and rated from beginner to advanced, but all can be accomplished by you.
      99.5% of [...]

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        Buying a Podcasting PC

        by Ben Straw on January 25, 2010

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        Finding the right PC for podcasting is a big task, you have to think about what you are going to be doing with that PC weather it is Video or Audio. Both can tax a system and cause some headaches. CPU, Ram, Hard Drive, Video Card, Sound Card, and even cooling all falls on the [...]

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          Battling Planes, trains, auto mobile, and all around noise

          Battling noises might just be the hardest thing a podcaster deals with, I my self live about a mile from a private Airport and am inline with the planes that love to play touch and go (A fake landing).
          Among the noise coming from TV’s, fans and surprise guests, they like to play a key roll [...]

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            10 Ways to get listeners/audience back to your site.

            January 21, 2010
            10 Ways to get listeners/audience back to your site.

            Alot of have people asked me how to do I get my listeners/audience back to my site?
            Getting people to come back to a site, can be one of the hardiest things to do, what I like to do is drive my listeners back to the Web site so they can see Ads and affiliate links [...]

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            Media hosting for your Podcast

            December 21, 2009
            Media hosting for your Podcast

            When it comes to media hosting it all depends on your needs, Some podcasters host their media on web hosting servers to cut the cost to a minimum, others use free hosting, and then you have the people who have money to pay for hosting.
            The average podcast brings in between 300-500 downloads per episode the [...]

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            The End of Podcasting for Wordpress

            December 21, 2009
            The End of Podcasting for Wordpress

            And then there was one.
            It all started with Podpress, what was a great plugin that a lot of podcasters had used including my self, back in the day. The development this plugin has been halted since Dec of 2007 and from rumors around the Internet, development has stopped. Now FAST FORWARD to this month (Dec [...]

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            Why not to use FeedBurner For Podcasting

            December 20, 2009
            Feedburner

            About a month ago I published a new podcast for one of my shows, At the time I thought nothing of it, until I checked the stats of the podcast. Now mind you this podcast has a small but growing audience, But when one episode grows to over 300% of what it was in under [...]

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            Review: Blubrry PowerPress Plugin 1.0.2

            October 14, 2009
            Blubrry PowerPress

            A new version of Blubrry’s PowerPress Plugin version 1.0.2 just came out about 2 days ago and I am stocked about this version. Writing about it can not describe how great this new version is. So I made a video I hope you enjoy.
            (10/15/09) Update: I uploaded the video to more video servers.
            Watch On Vimeo, [...]

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