Geeks Freaks and Tweaks

Yes, Nicole I am planning to do a Podcast. Right now, I’m building out the site for the show, trying to understand the best way to set it all up and learning how to produce such a beast.

I’m creating the show with Adobe Audition on Windows XP. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Audition comes with a number of royalty free sound clips and is also easy to use. I want to create a professional quality program that incorporates sound bytes from other shows and with Audition I was able to get it to work. The royalty free music will be for segment intros and bumper music.

To publish the Podcast I am going to use DasBlog. Unfortunately it doesn’t support enclosures yes, so until it does I will creating the RSS feeds manually. I’m going to publish my show in both MP3 and WMA and will have an RSS feed for each. You’ll choose the MP3 RSS feed if you want the show in that format or if you want the WMA version grab the WMA RSS feed.

The last piece to pull together is the rendering if my production notes. I want them in OPML and also inline in the posts when I announce a new show. To get this working I’ll either use some of Simon Fell’s code or Joshua Allen’s XSLT.

Tonight’s goal was pretty basic, get the subdomain working with DasBlog and narrow in on a technology plan. The subdomains works (needs a new banner and some minor tweaking and the text above is my plan).

So what’s the show about you ask? The title pretty much tells its all.

Geeks, A segment about folks behind technology, gizmos and more. This might just be us talking about a cool weblog post that caught our eye or it may be a recording of a Skype conversation that I have with a cool Geek.

Freaks – We get a kick out of reading the Weekly World News and also the Art Bell Program. In this segment we’ll talk about the goofiest articles in Weekly World News and replay some of the freakiest calls that the Art Bell Program Gets.

Tweaks, Try this at home things that you too can do on your PC, Smartphone, Pocket PC or other gadget.

That’s all for now, back to working on the plumbing.

Hopefully we’ll have the first show out before the new year and then roll a new one out each week.

Cheers!