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May 15, 2006
Podcasting
Podcasting (from iPOD and broadCASTING) is a popular way to distribute audio and other media files on the web. Podcasters publish RSS feeds listing their media files, then listeners or viewers subscribe to those feeds, making it easy to find and download new content.
To make podcasting easier for people here, I've installed the MT-Enclosures plugin on blogs.usask.ca.
You can read all about podcasting with Movable Type in the MT-Enclosures documentation. Briefly, though, here's what you need to do to become a podcaster:
1) Edit the RSS 2.0 Index Template for your blog and include the <$MTEntryEnclosures$> tag inside the <item>...</item> section. This template is used to create the index.xml file in your blog.
2) Upload an audio, video or other media file.
3) Post a blog entry with a link to the new media file.
4) Tell people about it. The address of your podcast feed file will be something like http://blogs.usask.ca/some_blog/index.xml.
Posted by elf123 at May 15, 2006 12:51 PM Topic(s): HowTo