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About Audioboo
I'm starting to get my head around audioboo. Podcasting on the fly via your iPhone is essentially what's on offer. It's bloody brilliant.
I've been watching from a distance in recent weeks some of the ways that @documentally and @se1 have been using audioboo as an instant distribution channel for their content. Recording, uploading and then broadcasting your podcast, live from the scene, is a truly remarkable tool that may just be the missing link to finally put us on par with the mainstream knobber media whores. Oh, plus finding a peak audience of a couple of million users or so.
The process really is as simple as pressing record, uploading and then moving on to your next story. There's even added functionality with a Google map appearing next to your pod via the iPhone's GPS, as well as the ability to upload and tag an image from the camera.
Twitter integration handles the promotional part for you, automatically sending out a tweet as soon as you have uploaded. Back at base (and back down below,) you can then embed the audio across other platforms.
I've been podcasting around the school for a couple of terms now using the more traditional method. The energy that the kids pass on is sometimes lost in the whole laborious procees.
You record the podcast, and then export it as an mp3 file. A web page needs knocking up, then you embed within. The working day still isn't done, as you need to not only publish your static page, but then upload the mp3 as well. RSS comes as standard, but that then requires a separate feed to be built. Don't forget to promote the pod via the iTunes store by pinging your feed as well.
Phew.
So a five-minute podcast with the brightest minds in SE17 can take an afternoon of your time to get out there.
Not anymore.
Audioboo absolutely changes the game. Your audioboo profile page also comes with an RSS feed, as well an instant upload to the iTunes store.
The trick is knowing when and how to use audioboo. The platform is there, now it's time to build on it. It must be exciting times for the bestbefore.tv crowd, knowing that they have created something that is about to explode big time.
But where to? Follow the youtube model and the message will get drowned out. Content isn't king if it's a LIVE! podcast coming from your local pub as your mate Dave lets rip. Access to all is important, but I can't help but think that audioboo will only become influential if it is adopted by news gatherers. And did I mention that videoboo is just around the corner?
With all this in mind, I experimented with audioboo out and about on the mean streets of EC4 this afternoon. The backdrop of the G20 protests was just a means to an end. I could have produced podcasts LIVE! from the end of my road when South London Yoof dropped his crisp packet on the floor.
Back in the day and I probably would have been fired up on the frontline with the rest of the contemporary urban anarchists. But I was more interested in a pleasant bicycle ride across to The City than any riotous action. What is totally revolutionary though is audioboo.
*this post will of course become self-contradictory come the start of the cricket season, when a boozed up South London blogger will file endless boos about how absolutely nothing of interest is happening at The Oval*
Southwark Bridge, Heading For The City
King William Street - Wot No Anarchists?
The Winking Copper Of EC4
I Don't Predict A Riot
reply via twitter
| Wednesday 1 April, 2009 |
I'm starting to get my head around audioboo. Podcasting on the fly via your iPhone is essentially what's on offer. It's bloody brilliant.
I've been watching from a distance in recent weeks some of the ways that @documentally and @se1 have been using audioboo as an instant distribution channel for their content. Recording, uploading and then broadcasting your podcast, live from the scene, is a truly remarkable tool that may just be the missing link to finally put us on par with the mainstream knobber media whores. Oh, plus finding a peak audience of a couple of million users or so.
The process really is as simple as pressing record, uploading and then moving on to your next story. There's even added functionality with a Google map appearing next to your pod via the iPhone's GPS, as well as the ability to upload and tag an image from the camera.
Twitter integration handles the promotional part for you, automatically sending out a tweet as soon as you have uploaded. Back at base (and back down below,) you can then embed the audio across other platforms.
I've been podcasting around the school for a couple of terms now using the more traditional method. The energy that the kids pass on is sometimes lost in the whole laborious procees.
You record the podcast, and then export it as an mp3 file. A web page needs knocking up, then you embed within. The working day still isn't done, as you need to not only publish your static page, but then upload the mp3 as well. RSS comes as standard, but that then requires a separate feed to be built. Don't forget to promote the pod via the iTunes store by pinging your feed as well.
Phew.
So a five-minute podcast with the brightest minds in SE17 can take an afternoon of your time to get out there.
Not anymore.
Audioboo absolutely changes the game. Your audioboo profile page also comes with an RSS feed, as well an instant upload to the iTunes store.
The trick is knowing when and how to use audioboo. The platform is there, now it's time to build on it. It must be exciting times for the bestbefore.tv crowd, knowing that they have created something that is about to explode big time.
But where to? Follow the youtube model and the message will get drowned out. Content isn't king if it's a LIVE! podcast coming from your local pub as your mate Dave lets rip. Access to all is important, but I can't help but think that audioboo will only become influential if it is adopted by news gatherers. And did I mention that videoboo is just around the corner?
With all this in mind, I experimented with audioboo out and about on the mean streets of EC4 this afternoon. The backdrop of the G20 protests was just a means to an end. I could have produced podcasts LIVE! from the end of my road when South London Yoof dropped his crisp packet on the floor.
Back in the day and I probably would have been fired up on the frontline with the rest of the contemporary urban anarchists. But I was more interested in a pleasant bicycle ride across to The City than any riotous action. What is totally revolutionary though is audioboo.
*this post will of course become self-contradictory come the start of the cricket season, when a boozed up South London blogger will file endless boos about how absolutely nothing of interest is happening at The Oval*
Southwark Bridge, Heading For The City
King William Street - Wot No Anarchists?
The Winking Copper Of EC4
I Don't Predict A Riot
reply via twitter
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