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About the Author
As an award-winning podcaster, Daniel J. Lewis gives you the guts and teaches you the tools to launch and improve your own podcasts for sharing your passions and finding success. Daniel creates resources for podcasters, such as the SEO for Podcasters and Zoom H6 for Podcasters courses, the Social Subscribe & Follow Icons plugin for WordPress, the My Podcast Reviews global-review aggregator, and the Podcasters' Society membership for podcasters. As a recognized authority and influencer in the podcasting industry, Daniel speaks on podcasting and hosts his own podcast about how to podcast. Daniel's other podcasts, a clean-comedy podcast, and the #1 unofficial podcast for ABC's hit drama Once Upon a Time, have also been nominated for multiple awards. Daniel and his son live near Cincinnati.

Apple Updates iLife, GarageBand Updates Only for Musicians

Today, Apple and Steve Jobs announce the release of iLife ’11, an update to their popular suite of home-friendly applications. Although iMovie ’11 received some nice updates for audio-editing, and impressive video features, podcasting-friendly GarageBand ’11 received a line of updates applicable to only musicians or wannabe musicians. This does greatly disappoint me and probably…

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How Long and How Often Should You Podcast?

Daniel Lewis shares some tips on determining the right balance of frequency and length for your podcast episodes.

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How to Prerecord Episodes with Audacity and WordPress

During my honeymoon, I had several episodes of the Ramen Noodle and The Audacity to Podcast automatically post. How can you prerecord and schedule your episodes to magically post while you are away? I share some tips for workflow, Audacity, and WordPress.

This week’s Audacity tip is the power of the pause button.

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Podcasting without Passion, Organization, or Dialog?

I’m back from my wedding and honeymoon, but still settling in with my wife. This is another prerecorded episode that started with a question about podcasting without passion.

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Interview with Fred Castaneda of Struggling Entrepreneur, Part 2

While I’m on my honeymoon, I have a two-part conversation with Fred Casteneda, a podcasting machine! We talk about his passion, organization, and dialog in his podcasting empire. This is part 2 of our previous conversation.

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Interview with Fred Castaneda of Struggling Entrepreneur, Part 1

While I’m on my honeymoon, I have a two-part conversation with Fred Casteneda, a podcasting machine! We talk about his passion, organization, and dialog in his podcasting empire.

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How to Remove Noise with Audacity

Noise is probably the most-common problem in amateur podcasts. Professional podcasts sound great not just because of the equipment, but also because of techniques. Learn some ways to reduce noise before and after you record.

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Podcasting with Software Compressors vs. Hardware Compressors

Compression, expansion, noise gate, threshold, ratio—what does it all mean? Should you use a software audio compressor, or a hardware compressor?

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Audacity and iTunes—Making Not-LAME MP3s

LAME is still the best MP3 encoder, but further tests and conversations reveal that it just may not be the best for podcasting.

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4 reasons why you shouldn’t use Audacity?

I address four of someone else’s reasons why you shouldn’t use Audacity. also share news about the BlackBerry Podcasts app for BlackBerry Smartphones.

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