podcasting | Chris Aldrich

Favorited Huffduffer by Jeremy Keith (huffduffer.com)

Create your own podcast: find links to audio files on the Web; huffduff the links (add them to your podcast); subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds.

I tell almost everyone I know who’s into web audio and podcasts how much I love Huffduffer.

While the site does a pretty good job of describing itself and the fact that it has a wonderful bookmarklet, I’ll also point out that Ryan Barrett has a video bookmarklet for it that “extracts the audio from videos on YouTube, Vimeo, and many more sites and sends it to Huffduffer.”

If you’re a podcastaphile, it’s a de rigueur tool. While I publish a listen feed on my website, you can also follow me on Huffduffer if you wish. If you’re using it, do let me know so I can add you to my “collective”. This will let me find the great audio you’re discovering.

I should tell Jeremy Keith more often I love that he runs this little service: Thanks for making the world so much brighter!

📺 The trick that makes transcribing quick and easy | YouTube

Watched The trick that makes transcribing quick and easy from Quartz | YouTube

Transcribing things sucks. But we have a hack to make transcribing quick and easy–it's also free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGAYpS5LJTY

Overview: Use Google Docs with voice record and a pair of headphones.

David Shanske has kindly improved the Post Kinds plugin (v2.7.6) to include audio posts out of the box.

This reminds me I need to get back to making my microcast so that I’ve got more than just the one episode.

An example of an audio post with the Post Kinds Plugin

🎙 A microcast about microcasts in under an hour

A microcast about microcasts in under an hour

I’ve wanted to create a podcast for a long time, but the effort involved just seemed like too much. So using my own website, I thought I’d see what I could come up with in under an hour in terms of creation and posting. Here’s the first “episode” of my microcast which I’ve conceived of, created, and posted in under an hour with equipment I happen to have on hand:

Running time: 9m 45s | Download (3.90 MB) | Subscribe by RSS |

Huffduff

👓 Syndicating Audio Posts with WNYC’s Audiogram Generator

Read Syndicating Audio Posts with WNYC's Audiogram Generator by

Marty McGuire (martymcgui.re)

I publish a few different podcasts and often find myself advertising new episodes by syndicating new posts to various social media silos. Sadly, few social media services consider audio to be "a thing", despite often having robust support for video. I'm certainly not the first person to notice this...

This is awesome!

👓 SoundCloud, Which Rose to Stardom on Indie Talent, Lays Off 173 | NYTimes

Read SoundCloud, Which Rose to Stardom on Indie Talent, Lays Off 173 by Ben Sisario (New York Times)

The layoffs cut the streaming music site’s work force by about 40 percent and could be a way to make it more attractive to a buyer.

Yet another reminder to own your own data and have your own website. Exporting and hosting all this data won’t be easy and if it goes under, it’s a huge hole in the internet.

👓 Signl.fm on making a social media interface for Podcasts. | Matter

Read Signl.fm on making a social media interface for Podcasts by Kim Hansen (Matter)

An overview of the history of Signl.fm and some of the experiments they've been doing in podcasting, audio, and social.

This smartphone microscope lets you play games with microbes.@richcampbell @CarlFranklin –> Full Episode:

This smartphone microscope lets you play games with microbes.@richcampbell @CarlFranklin –> Full Episode: https://t.co/jvaUzPPMix pic.twitter.com/FTF0Yt04JL

— ChrisAldrich (@ChrisAldrich) February 28, 2017

60db and audio discovery

Bookmarked 60db: Your World. Story by Story. (60dB)

60dB brings you today's best short-form audio stories – news, sports, entertainment, business and technology, all personalized for you.

I just ran across a recommendation for an audio discovery app via Mathew Ingram at the end of This Week in Google #389.

60db seems like the start of what could be an interesting podcast/audio discovery app/engine. It has the appearance of wanting to be like Nuzzel for the audio space based on their announcement, but isn’t quite there yet based on my quick look through their site. On first blush it doesn’t seem much better than Huffduffer and doesn’t have a follower model of any sort, but perhaps that could change. Folks watching the podcasting and audio discovery space should keep an eye on it though.

Sadly, at least for now, the app appears to focus on short form audio (3-8 minutes in length) from major media content producers who are already syndicating audio in podcast format. I haven’t used the iOS (no Android app yet) app, but the web interface allows one to pick from a list of about 20 broad category options (news, sports, politics, kids, etc.) to “customize” one’s feed.

Hopefully in the future it may build itself out a bit more like Nuzzel by requesting data from one’s Facebook or Twitter feeds to better customize an algorithmic feed for better general audio discovery. Maybe it will allow a follower model based on social graph for improved discovery. One might also like to see custom settings for podcast story length, so one could choose between short hit audio, which they currently have in abundance, and longer form stories for lengthier commute times.

For the moment however, they seem to have recreated a slightly better and more portable version of news radio for the internet/mobile crowd. Perhaps future iterations will reveal more?