[FM Discuss] Promoting your podcast

[Benjamin Dembroski]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Mick Fuzz wrote:

>
>>
>> We were also wondering if it might not be a good
>> idea to separate out
>> the promoting your video and promoting your audio
>> podcast?
>
> I think that might well be a good idea.
>
> Also it might be important on the video part to
> explain why creating a feed for iTunes / iPods is a
> real compromise as well as if you want to create a
> file that plays on an iPod you pretty much either have
> to use QTpro or a strange bit of freeware called
> Superencoder to create special-arse mp4.

And to also reinforce that choosing to use a distribution method  as  
closed as iTunes / iPod(video) / ITMS is essentially endorsing the  
closed system.  In my experience once people realize that they have to  
encode and host things at least twice (in order to cover closed  
systems and devices as well as the rest of us) they tend to look at  
these issues a little more closely.

>
> Then we can suggest that if they do create a video
> feed for iTunes with mp4 then a good way of supporting
> openness is to create a feed for Miro with Ogg files
> in the enclosures.

Blip.tv is good site that integrates well with Miro, Creative Commons  
licenses, and the Internet Archive. It also offers a greater range of  
format options compared to YouTube / ITMS -- including ipod compatible  
formats.

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> Mick
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