The company who has been hosting the podcasts for PodLeaders.com has gone bankrupt, it seems.
As such, all the PodLeaders podcasts are temporarily offline while I source another host.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
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The BBC is reporting that there will very shortly be a plugin for Skype which acts as a lie detector by analysing:
audio streams over a Skype call in real time and illustrates the stress levels of the other person
Most of my PodLeaders podcasts are recorded Skype conversations - this could add a whole new dimension to the interviews!!!
If we ignore the fact that the term Web 2.0 is controversial for all kinds of reasons and concentrate on the applications themselves, which Web 2.0 apps (using the broadest possible definition) do you use most?
I use:
- my blog and podcast software all the time (they are run out of WordPress)
- my Flickr account regularly to post photos
- Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets frequently for collaboration or sharing of documents
- Google’s Calendar to synch with my laptop and mobile phone calendars
- Technorati, PubSub and Google’s Blogsearch to subscribe to RSS searches
- Flock as my main browser of choice (primarily because of the Flickr and Del.icio.us integration) - I also use Firefox, Camino, Safari and IE7
- Feedburner to burn and track my feeds
- NetNewsWire, Google Reader and iTunes to consume my feed list
- TechMeme, Megite and TailRank for keeping up with tech news
- Del.icio.us very occasionally to store URLs for items I have found interesting
What cool Web 2.0 apps am I not using that I should be using? What are your favourite Web 2.0 apps?
The shortlist for the IIA Netvisionary awards has been announced and I have been shortlisted for the Best Blogger award for this blog, and the Best Podcast award for the PodLeaders.com podcast.
Considering I am up against Twenty Major and Michele Neylon in the Best Blogger category and Bernie Goldbach and Brian Greene for the Best Podcaster category, I honestly don’t expect to be bringing away a prize.
Thank you very much to everyone who voted for my nominations (and to whoever nominated me in the first place!).
I upgraded to a shiny new Intel based MacBook Pro recently and I love it.
One problem that I hadn’t anticipated was that the Audacity plugin for exporting to mp3 is not available for the Intel Mac. I use Audacity all the time for editing my podcasts and for creating the mp3’s which I publish on PodLeaders.com and on the it@cork blog.
I kinda cheated in finding a way around this - I downloaded the Windows version of Audacity and installed it on my Windows XP installation on Parallels on my Mac. This version of Audacity can export to mp3 no problem.
So now, I am editing all my podcasts (and exporting to mp3) using Windows on the Mac - (yeuch!). I’ve no doubt there is a more straightforward way to do this but this is the hack I came up with being a blogger of very little brain!
Audacity is an open source, cross-platform sound editing application. It is the sound editor I use for producing the PodLeaders and it@cork podcasts.
The process I use for producing the podcasts was:
- Record the interview using Skype and Wiretap Pro (with Wiretap Pro set to save as mp3)
- Import the mp3 file to Audacity and edit
- Export as mp3 and publish
After a recent conversation with Doug Kaye, I decided to try his Levelator application to get the levels on the recordings the same. This meant I had to change Wiretap Pro to output to aiff ( a lossless format) instead of mp3.
I did this and recorded a number of interviews successfully, saving the interviews as aiff. However, yesterday, when I went to edit the first of those interviews, I was disappointed that the Levelator couldn’t work with the files (gave an error and stopped trying to level them).
However, I was horrified when I tried importing the files into Audacity only to find that the imported files had massive echo problems, echo problems (!). No matter what I tried I couldn’t get rid of the echo and it made the audio useless.
Finally, I hit on a solution:
- Import the aiff files into iTunes
- Export from iTunes as mp3
- Import the mp3 file into Audacity - no echo (phew!)
I should have hit on this solution sooner but it had been a long day!
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