July 10, 2005

A technical question.

from Ann Althouse: "Let's say you had a thrillingly exciting podcasting project in the works. You have three persons having a dialogue. How should you mike them? Should there be one microphone that can pick up all three? (If so, be specific if you can and recommend one.) Or should each person have a separate mike? (And if so, what would you recommend, both for the mike and for the way to feed them into one track?)"

Posted by Kevin at 09:25 PM

June 28, 2005

Spotted: Two Good Posts about Blawgcasts

Today I found someone else who's been doing some thinking about law-related podcasts. It's Tim at Justia Legal SEO Blog, who authored two colorfully-illustrated posts about legal podcasts: PodCasts - Directories for Legal PodCasts (BlawgCasts), Software, How-to and... Adam Curry; and Submit Your BlawgCast to Apple's iTunes Music Store PodCast Section.

Both posts are very helpful and informative--be sure to check them out.

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March 31, 2005

BlawgCast (defined)

is (1) the transmission of audio and or video files across the internet and onto your hard drive via select software; (2) the act of aggregating and distributing audio 'casts posted to legal weblogs (blawgs) via a single RSS feed.

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March 28, 2005

What Makes For A Good Law Podcast?

Marty Schwimmer asks the question at his newly launched Between Lawyers blog at Corante.

His response: good writing.

Which coincidentally makes for a good blawg.

update: Apparently a major thread at Between Lawyers will be legal podcasting..... here's Ernie the Attorney's two cents.

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March 24, 2005

Announcing BlawgCast.com: One-Stop Browsing for Law-Related Podcasts

by Evan Schaeffer, Notes from the (Legal) Underground
Are you a podcasting naysayer like, say, Jurispundit? In a post titled "What's the Big Deal with Podcasts?" Jurispundit wrote:
[T]he "Information Era" brought the internet and to a lesser extent cable news such that we could avoid the dreaded "local news anchor." It seems we have gone full circle. Only this time to new lows. Rather than amateur broadcasters, we're listening to amateurs pretending to be amateur broadcasters. Here's to hoping this fad passes quickly.
I'm one who happens to disagree. You can argue about the quality of podcasting content all day long. As with weblogs, there's plenty of junk. But the revolutionary thing about podcasting in these early stages isn't the content, but the way the content is delivered. Using software like iPodder, the content is delivered to your mp3 device automatically.

Podcasting is TIVO for your iPod.

You can choose what you want to listen to and you can listen to it without having to sit at a computer. Not only does podcasting give you more options than with radio, but the content isn't governed by the restrictive FCC-enforced rules that have made ordinary radio so plain vanilla. And that content continues to improve every day.

Perhaps my cheerleading makes you ill. If so, you'll be happy to learn that this is the last time I'll promote podcasting on this weblog. Why's that? Because as of this week, I've become a co-host at Kevin Heller's .com, a weblog designed to bring you news about all the developments in law-related podcasting.

Although I'll continue to post my own podcasts on this weblog, I won't be commenting very much on the phenomenon of podcasting. I'll save all that for BlawgCast. It's at BlawgCast, for example, that I'll be urging Professor Althouse to record one those con-law lectures she frequently writes about. I mean, why not? Why can't the occasional law-school lecture be a podcast? Or oral arguments from appellate courts? Or recordings of lawyers giving practice tips like the Texas Bar's Ten Minute Mentor? To turn such audio content into a podcast is as simple as putting it into a RSS feed. It really takes no time at all.

It's at BlawgCast where Kevin and I will be discussing ideas like these while we cover all the latest news about judges, law professors, lawyers and law students who podcast. Already, Kevin has developed a can't-be-missed feature at BlawgCast: a single feed that will allow you to keep up on a variety of legal podcasts at once. You'll find the details here.

See you at BlawgCast!

Editor's Note by Kevin Heller: I would like to thank Evan for joining me at BlawgCast.com as we attempt to take on this small, but growing, portion of the podcasting universe.

[originally posted at Notes from the (Legal) Underground]

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March 23, 2005

How to Podcast for Busy Lawyers

Kevin at lexBlog points us to feedmelegal who recommends Audioblog for busy lawyers as well as points to Eric Rice/Audioblog's screencast on how to podcast using Audioblog.

Be sure to tune in to the "what's your podcast setup" series to learn how less blawgers and law students setup their podcast studio.

Related Posts: Evan Schaeffer: What's your podcasting setup?

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March 22, 2005

Show your support

If you're a legal podcaster, add a image to your podcast posts so we can help distribute and build an audience for our fellow podcasters.

Posted by Kevin at 06:49 PM | Comments (0)

You need software to download podcasts

Download one of these applications, then enter this podcast's feed into your podcast application. [Add to FD]

FeedDemon 1.5(for Windows)



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March 18, 2005

Welcome to Blawgcast.com

We're just getting started here at blawgcast.com, but you can expect a lot more to come -- you didn't think aggregated syndication was it, right. I've already got Part I of the 'What's your blawgcasting setup?' series posted and here's more.

There are plans in the works for legal podcast news, reviews, promotions and of course access the sidebar for the legal podcast directory.

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