CHAPTER 1

Quick Start

In this chapter we’re going to upload a video blog or a podcast, your call. The steps to do it are quite straightforward, and if you have any experience with posting web pages or blog entries, or serving MP3s from a website, you know enough to quickly get a podcast up.

All video blogs or podcasts are, in reality, blogs with links to multimedia. If you create a blog and link it to video, then you have technically created a “video blog.” However, to make such a blog into a compatible multimedia feed that can be subscribed to and automatically downloaded by programs such as iTunes, you’re going to need to learn a few more details.

This chapter will briefly cover the steps of creating your first podcast, including:

1.    Recording ...

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