podCALGARY

Since the sudden demise of Confessions of a DJ my need for a Calgary based music podcast has been growing. Yeah, I know, AllAxisRadio should be enough music podcast for me, but I am a bit greedy. Enter Giant Spheres Inside Calgary Music Scene. Kristoffer Benoit hosts this podcast that features music, and interviews from the Calgary Music Scene as well as news and event listings. Kristoffer has two shows up so far. I encourage your to have a listen. Welcome to the club Kristoffer. You can find links to the site and the feed on the Directory page.

Daryl Cognito

Thanx to DuGG for the heads up on this one…

TheQuickdraw Animation Society’s Youth Animation Project along with its partners The Creative Monkeys are jumping into the Web 2.0 soup making the original animations they are famous for available via podcasting.
From their release

…www.quickdrawshowcase.com a site that will feature animated films produced at Quickdraw Animation Society. Internet vodcasting (video podcasting) has granted the power of mass media, formerly controlled by major broadcasters, into the hands of the lowly indie animator/filmmaker. The purpose of the site is to promote indie animators creating interesting and thought provoking works. We are hoping that www.quickdrawshowcase.com will become a hub of animation fervor both locally, nationally, and internationally. Eventually many shows will be aired from the site the first of which is entitled ‘Frame by Frame’.

‘Frame by Frame’ is a new vodcast internet show launched by Quickdraw Animation society and the Youth Animation Project. Each episode will feature a new short animated film by a local Calgary based animator produced by the Youth Animation Project, a Service Canada Skills Link project (www.quickdrawshowcase.com/youth-animation-project ). Episodes will air twice a month on the 1st and the 15th. You can visit www.quickdrawshowcase.com to view new episode on its own or subscribe to the rss stream and new episode will be uploaded to your computer minutes after being posted on the site.

You will find the Feed here. I’ve subscribed and I will catch the episodes on my ipod touch. The only think I could suggest is that they add an itune “1click” to save me from cutting and pasting. (Maybe throw in a Zune 1click for fun)

Daryl Cognito

If this was an interview Daryl would clearly be leading with his questions. However I know that his time is being rampantly consumed touching his new iPod and that he would loathe the idea of soiling his finger prints on a Zune.

Yes, the Zune now has podcatching support thanks to the latest firmware update for the device. There are even a few video podcasts featured on the Zune site including Ask A Ninja, WallStrip and the Nightly News with Brian Williams. But if your looking for video news on your Zune I’d recommend the Global News Hour with Gord Gillies and Nirmala Naidoo.

Thankfully the Zune team saw the merit in the one click innovation that was developed for iTunes. For those of you who are not familiar with this – a “one click” is a string of code that distills the process of subscribing to a podcast into a single mouse click. This beats having to explain what RSS is to those that don’t already know.

Here is the composition and an example from Zune Insider:
Create your unique link URL using this format: zune://subscribe/?PodcastTitle=PodcastRSSFeedURL

Here is a working example: zune://subscribe/?wallstrip=http://feeds.feedburner.com/wallstrip

Rob Walch of Podcast411 answered the call and created one himself:

http://www.podcast411.com/blog/?p=39

So there you have it – the Zune now supports podcasting and now podcasters can support the Zune!

Hi all, sorry that it has been a while since I have posted. As you know, one of my jobs at podCALGARY is to report on and discuss who is podcasting in Calgary. Well I haven’t been doing a great job but I have an excuse. First, I run a Google Alerts to let me know when someone in Calgary is podcasting, the alerts have been a bit dry. I am starting to question their accuracy since Dugg scooped me on the Global News podcast. I am currently reserving judgment on the podcast, while it is great to get my new on my ipod, they need some serious help. Anyway, my point here is that there isn’t really anything new happening in the Calgary Podosphere so I thought I would fire a podcasting news and technology question out to my buddy Doug.

Hey Doug, on Tuesday November 13th Microsoft’s Zune and Zune Marketplace release podcasting support. Could you let us know a few things? 1. Is there a “one click” subscribe code that podcasters can add to their sites. 2. How does a podcaster get his/her podcast listed in the Zune Marketplaces? 3. What do you think of the Zune podcasting interface?

I am asking Doug these questions partly because he handles this kind of thing for podCALGARY, he uses Windows and mostly cause he scooped me on the Global thing.

Daryl Cognito