Is your blog or podcast ready for Google’s new algorithm? Should you update to Audacity 2.0? What the new iPad means for podcasters. Becoming mobile-friendly.
Is your blog or podcast ready for Google’s new algorithm?
From “How to Prep Your SEO for Google’s New Algorithm“:
- Break from the old keyword mentality, embrace synonyms
- Build up your FAQ page
- Don’t sell, educate
Should you update to Audacity 2.0?
After excitedly announcing the release of Audacity 2.0, I also upgraded myself. But I’ve started discovering some problems and repeatable errors.
- Dragging more than four WAV files into Audacity 2.0 has consistently crashed it.
- Exporting and attempting to overwrite an existing file returns a blank error message in some circumstances, like exporting the selected top track. Other tracks are fine.
- Lower stability on a large (70+ minutes) project.
What the new iPad means for podcasters
Apple started a trend of making high-resolution portable devices. These all have high pixel densities (measured in pixels per inch (PPI)). Since 2010, more devices are upgrading to high-resolution screens.
- iPhone 4 and 4s
- Galaxy Nexus and several other Android-powered smartphones
- third-generation iPad
- Several Android-powered tablets
- Upcoming Kindle devices?
This high resolution means your podcast cover art will not look as good if it’s 300×300 pixels. Even though we’ve been pushing 600×600, perhaps you should consider larger, like 1,200 x 1,200 or 2,048 x 2,048.
Making the resolution too high will result in larger files, which you won’t want. But certainly move up from 300 x 300.
I’m also enjoying using Soundboard Remote to control Soundboard on my Mac.
Becoming mobile-friendly
Since I got my own first iPad, I’m able to test more live-streaming solutions to ensure mobile-viewers can enjoy the content on their devices. So far, I’ve only seen three services work well on mobile:
- Ustream.tv
- Livestream
- Mixlr (audio only)
For chat rooms, I’ve been experimenting with Cbox, which is only $2 per month. Other alternatives are Chatroll and ShoutMix, at premium prices.
New podcasting poll: do you browse on mobile?
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Ask your podcasting legal questions for upcoming guest
I’m very pleased to say that Gordon Firemark will be joining us for a few future episodes. He is an entertainment and new media Lawyer, and the author of the [amazon link=”B005C415L2″ title=”Podcast, Blog, and New Media Producers Legal Survival Guide”]. He also hosts the Entertainment Law Update podcast.
So send me your legal questions to ask Gordon in upcoming episodes.
- Privacy policy
- Release forms
- Copyrights
- Trademarks
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