The Audacity to Podcast®

Learn about Apple's new podcast specs for iTunes, what this means for podcasters (especially the new cover art recommendation), and how PowerPress 4.0 meets these needs and adds new features.

Simple mic technique can fix your podcast from sounding cheap and amateur to far more professional. Apply these five simple tricks to sound better podcasting!

Want to earn money, get tax benefits, or gain press access with your podcast? Then you need these legal answers with Gordon Firemark. He also shares what to do when you get a lawyer letter.

How to easily make a privacy policy and what it should contain, how to get releases for your cohosts and guests, necessary disclaimers and disclosures, and how to avoid defamation. Legal answers with Gordon Firemark.

Show you claim something as a trademark? Do you have to register trademarks? How can we protect trademarks in social media? And more trademark questions answered by entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark.

Can you use copyrighted material in your personal podcast? What about "fair use"? And more copyright questions answered by entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark.

It may feel like your podcast is dying. That doesn't always mean it's time to quit. Sometimes, your podcast just needs a bit of new life! If you have extra money to spend, I also include some bonus tips. This is more than just finding content for your podcast, but bringing new inspiration and flavor to what is still your passion.

Learn why you need guts to blog or podcast. It's not just about a computer program.

Rob Greenlee from Zune tells us that the Zune Marketplace isn't dead, and we talk about the future of Zune and podcasting in general.

Is your blog or podcast ready for Google's new algorithm? Should you update to Audacity 2.0? What the new iPad means for podcasters. Becoming mobile-friendly.

Learn how to setup Blubrry's PowerPress plugin for WordPress, including feed and iTunes settings, category podcasting, channels, and how to attach podcast episodes.

Will a native-language accent turn away listeners? How to fix a cover art display issue. And whether Stitcher's legalese is evil.

Learn how to remove verbal crutches and automatically shorten long silences.

The worldwide web is a big place and having your podcast on just your website will prevent you from growing an audience—or getting one in the first place.

Podcasters don't have to be perfect, and it's easy to fix most of our mistakes. But here are thirteen things that you can't fix later if you don't get it right when you start podcasting. Most of these apply to blogs, too.

Twitter can be a tool to find, grow, and mature your audience, as well as a great way to promote your blogging and podcasting. Here are eleven ways to help you succeed!

How to take live phone or Skype calls, managing Audacity plugins, effectiveness of podcast cards, live-streaming a Skype conversation, how to get a chatroom, and multiple USB mics/inputs on Windows.

The contestants: Audacity's built-in compressor, Chris's Dynamic Compressor, C3 Multiband Compressor, and Levelator. I was personally surprised by the winner.

As podcasters, we should be setting the examples of being great listeners and encouraging our audiences to be the same.

This is a hot topic for Internet content-creators: bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers—almost anyone with a presence on the Internet could be affected.

While everyone is making New Year's Resolutions in their personal lives, think about how you can improve your blogging and podcasting passions in 2012.

Listen to hear me comment on the following new features in Audacity 1.3.14.

Back to basics! Learn what you need to edit your first podcast and some tips you may have missed if you're already podcasting with Audacity.

5 things to consider as you decide whether stereo or mono is best for podcasting: File size Bandwidth Download speed Audio quality Listeners

5 simple steps to get your own website, install WordPress, and start blogging or podcasting: Pick a domain Get web hosting from either https://noodle.mx/site5 or https://noodle.mx/bluehost Install WordPress. Install plugins Publish content

Learn twelve things you can do to get content for blogging or podcasting.

Like any program, Audacity has its limits that can't be broken. Each of the following would be best done in a different program.

We chase away the undead ideas that scare away many people from podcasting or blogging, or frighten even seasoned podcasters or bloggers.

In-person social-media events are a lot of fun and can be opportunities to grow your audience. Learn 9 tips for taking advantage of these events without being a spammer.

Feedburner provides useful subscription stats and powerful overrides that any blogger or podcasting can use. Learn how to setup Feedburner with your WordPress website for your blog or podcast.

Learn what ID3-tagging software you can use (most free), how to enter ID3 tags, and taking advantage of iTunes fields for podcasting with PowerPress.

Whether live-streaming or only offering a download, your timing is important! Learn some tips on picking the best time for you and your audience.

Learn three easy Audacity tips for making your voice sound better, regardless of what microphone you use.

Your shownotes are the life of your Internet home for your podcast. Writing and posting them effectively will give you several benefits.

Stever Robbins, host of the Get It Done Guy's Quick & Dirty Tips to Work Less and Do More, and author of Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More, shares his tips to help us podcast more and better by being more productive.

Your podcast's live page shouldn't be merely another page on your site. This page needs special content and optimization to be effective. Learn nine things you should include on this page.

Encourage viewer-participation with a chat room during your live-streaming, podcast-recording sessions.

Once you have your podcasting gear setup, it's time to pick your live-streaming service and embed it on your website!

You've added a cohost to your podcast, and you want to record in front of a live Internet audience. We've previously talked about recording multiple onsite cohosts. But if your cohost is offsite, there are ways you can record and live-stream with just a few extra cables, or do it easiest with a mixer and two computers.

Continuing the series of how to live-stream your podcast while recording, we'll look at how to do it when you're flying solo.

This is the launch of a miniseries about live-podcasting. Before we get into the "how to podcast live" specifics, it's best to answer why you should podcast live.

Whether you're only a blogger, a blogger wanting to upgrade to podcasting, or a podcaster trying to do things better, this list of WordPress plugins will help you. These are all compatible with WordPress 3.2.

I have almost never had problems with Audacity, except when I did something stupid. If you'd like similar success, try the following and share any suggestions and experience you have.

Whether you have a small or large podcast, you can make money from it. While this is not an exhaustive list, Daniel J. Lewis shares his top five ways to monetize the content you're posting on the Internet in your podcast or blog.

Listeners share their software and tricks for podcasting, as well as get their questions answered.

Your website is the Internet home for your podcast. Here are several easy things you can do to make your website appeal to gain more listeners and make it easier for current subscribers.

Learn how to effectively use three ways of recording more than one person in a podcast, and how to avoid ineffective ineffective applications of the same three ways.

I share the full list of changes in Audacity 1.3.13 and personal experience with several of them. Ron Eastwood shared a fun special effect in Audacity.

Make your voice or music sound crazy with these special effects that you can apply post-process (after recording) or in real-time with a mixer.

It's now possible and easy for you to upgrade your podcast website to support an HTML5 audio/video player, but not leave Flash Player behind.