WordPress 2.1 (aka Ella) is now available. It includes several worthwhile features including a better post editor, more efficient database usage and the latest version of Akismet for comment spam control. WordPress is what I run this blog on as well as all of my podcasts. It’s an amazing blog platform. Best of all it’s [...]
Continue reading...January 30, 2007 by Jason
With the global launch of Windows Vista today, RSS is going to get a lot more mainstream. Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 and MS Office 2007 all have RSS features incorporated into them. Outlook 2007 users will be able to subscribe to and consume RSS content as easily as they do with their email. I’ve [...]
Continue reading...January 26, 2007 by Jason
The itunes:keywords tag is a very important piece of meta data contained in your podcast feed. From my experience this tag greatly impacts the exposure your podcast gets in iTunes Music Store searches. But I recently discovered an interesting limitation (more on that in a second). The itunes:keywords field contains a list of keywords (single [...]
Continue reading...January 24, 2007 by Jason
After a week of jury duty, I’m back in the blogging seat. It was an interesting experience, but it brought several hectic days of playing catch up. Now where was I? In my last post, I talked about the importance of carefully choosing which format was best for your podcast–audio or video–rather than submitting to [...]
Continue reading...January 17, 2007 by Jason
A little while back I was chatting with an audio podcaster. He was excited because he would soon be “upgrading” to video podcasting. I asked about the reason for the change. The answer was: “Because it’s the future.” I didn’t find that to be the best reason for a change. There’s no doubt that web [...]
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January 31, 2007 by Jason
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