Scribble King Podcasts

Podcast 2: Star Wars, Saw and the Empire Awards

Scribble King Podcast number two is online! In this brand new episode, which lasts 36 minutes, you will find some ruthless editing, movie news, music, the Empire Awards and Patrick's Unvoluntary Review! Some of the main points in this new podcast are the brand new Star Wars trailer, a report about the Empire Awards, and Patrick's Unvoluntary Review, where Onno makes Patrick watch a movie he would normally never watch (in this case Saw), even if you paid him to do it. This is all spiced up with some great movie music. You can download podcast 2 by clicking on the logo.

Podcast 1: The Academy Awards

The first podcast is online! Me and my friend and co-host Onno recorded it yesterday and we had a blast doing it. We discuss the Oscars in this show and it turned out pretty well. My wife had a lot of fun listening to it (okay, she is a little bit biased) and I think there will be more of these podcasts. A few notes: I spoke through this really old microphone, but for the next podcast I will look into getting a headset and sounding more clear. Besides that, it's weird to not be writing down what I want to say, but to actually be saying it. When you write something, you can read it back and delete it. When you say something, you can only think to yourself: Crap, did I really say that? So, for people with sensitive ears, there is a bit of cursing in the podcast. If you cannot handle it, then don't listen to it. It's not like an Eddie Murphy stand-up show, curse-wise, but there are some words in there that you don't want your kids repeating amongst public. If you want to listen to the podcast: you can download it here. If you have no idea what a podcast is and what you should do with it, then you can read Onno's detailed explanation here. If you download and listen to the Podcast, I'd love to hear what you think of it!

Podcast how to

UPDATE: Subscribing to the Scribble King Podcast just got a whole lot easier! Download and install the free iTunes 4.9 music player. Click the Add To iTunes button on the Scribble King website and you are instantly taken to the Scribble King page in iTunes. Click Subscribe, and you can download each new show automatically as it comes out. Now you can listen to the shows on your pc or easily sync the podcast folder with your iPod or mp3-player. Try it now!

Podcasting? RSS? What’s all this?

For those of you who haven’t heard about podcasting yet: this is a new phenomenon that can be described as audio-blogging. A podcast is basically a radio-like program in mp3 format, made on many different subjects, by people all over the world.

You can download podcasts one-by-one from the websites they originate from, or better yet: download every new episode automatically to your iPod or any other mp3 player.

How do I get ‘em?

To download new podcast automatically you need a podcasting client which you can download in the downloads section of www.ipodder.org. Well known clients are iPodder and Doppler (for Windows) and iPodderX (for Mac OS).

Downloadable podcasts are read from RSS of XML links you find on many websites these days. They are often found by looking for the orange XML icon.

Popular podcasts include Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code, The Dawn & Drew Show and Reel Reviews. A categorized directory of podcasts is found here.

After installing a podcasting client, you paste the URL (the XML/RSS link) of the podcast you like as a new feed in your client.

This link is used only in RSS newsreaders, or indeed podcasting programs. If you open the same link in your browser it often looks like a collection of colorful XML code.   

For the Scribble King podcast (as well as general content updates) you can use the following RSS feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ScribbleKing

From this moment on your podcasting client will periodically check if there are any new podcasts available and download them to your hard drive.

Syncing with your mp3 player

If you’re using an iPod it’s very easy to synchronize the podcasts on your hard drive using the iTunes mediaplayer.

If you have any other mp3 player and Windows, you can use Windows Media Player 10. An excellent how-to on synchronizing files this was is found here.

After this you’re all set. Just plug in your mp3 player, and receive all your favourite podcasts the moment they’ve been downloaded. Have fun!

Many thanks to Onno for writing this down for me!