Chapter 10. Creating a Multimedia Blog

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This chapter is going to be less about blogging than it is about technologies for creating content. Podcasts and video blogs remain popular year after year because audio and video are so engaging to users. From your perspective, that of the content creator, podcasts and video blogs are great because they don’t require a lot of special gear or software. Almost every laptop and many PCs (and tablets and smartphones!) have all the hardware and software you need to get started.

Just a few minutes in front of your webcam or recording your voice with a built-in microphone, and you’re going along the path to being ...

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