What Paul Newman taught me about reducing puffy face when vlogging [video]

February 22, 2010

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When video podcasting you need to look your best. Increasingly production values (how your video looks) are important. Picture quality is getting better even for the smallest video producer, which puts pressure on everybody to improve. Check out the lesson I learned from movie star Paul Newman on how to get rid of your puffy face before vlogging.

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5 screw-ups you can make recording a skype to skype call

February 27, 2008

We record the Photo Share Podcast using a Skype to Skype call; I make a Skype call to my podcast co-host Sandra and record the conversation, editing and mixing the audio file (.wav) later. We do this because it’s convenient and cheap (Skype to Skype calls are free), but there’s a bunch of problems that [...]

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Tip on improving work flow when creating podcasts

December 29, 2007

Would you like to encode your podcast file to mp3 and fill-in the ID3 tags with just one right mouse click? Then this tip is for you. To brand your podcast effectively, consistent ID3 tags and file encoding is important; you want your listeners or viewers to feel like you’re dependable, that your podcast will [...]

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New Podcasts This Week: 12-17-2007

December 19, 2007

What will hopefully be weekly feature, here are some of the new podcasts that have debuted this week. If you’d like to be featured in the future, send me a note at help@netcastblog.com.

A podcast sponsored by BASF, The Chemical Reporter answers questions like “how is a mirror assembled?”
The Guardian has a new weekly tech podcast [...]

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5 Mistakes To Avoid When Recording A Skype To Skype Podcast

December 17, 2007

One of the ways to cheaply record a podcast that has multiple hosts is to use Skype, the voice over internet protocol (voip). I’m using this technique when I record Photo Share Podcast with Sandra, my co-host. This post will try to steer you away from some of the mistakes we’ve made.

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Comments on radio and podcasting

January 1, 2007

Robin Good makes some interesting observations about the future of radio in a world with podcasting, though it seems to me that he glosses over how talk radio will be changed by podcasting/netcasting.
Music radio as we have known it is probably dead, and not because of satellite radio or netcasting. Radio has killed radio as [...]

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European Union Votes For An Accessible Web

January 1, 2007

The European Union, 34 countries in all, voted to work towards making the Internet accessible to all. The press release states:
A pan-European drive to use information and communication technologies to help people to overcome economic, social, educational, territorial or disability-related disadvantages was endorsed by ministers of 34 European countries in Riga (Latvia) today. “e-Inclusion” targets [...]

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Educational podcasts: where are they?

December 23, 2006

You would think that educational institutions would be all-over the podcasting technology, but they’re not. At least they haven’t been in 2006. There are exceptions, but as a rule educators are missing the podcasting wave. I think there are great opportunities: marketing colleges and universities, disseminating news to a campus community, podcasts by college newspapers [...]

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The Queen does a podcast

December 23, 2006

According to MacWorld News, Queen Elizabeth II’s Christmas speech is being podcast. The Royal podcast is going to be posted on the BBC’s Web site, available when the speech is broadcasted.

Westminster Digital, a company that provides the U.K. governement with other media streaming services, is hosting the podcast.
On the one hand this isn’t really [...]

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