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I don’t think I’ve ever done a post on these two magazines, but I saw them at the expo this year and it reminded me that I should.

Any magazine that comes out about podcasting is going to have a lot of ads. They’re going to have to be ad driven in order to make enough money to produce the magazine. That’s just a fact. What I like about these magazines though… is that I actually READ the ads. Their all about stuff I need (okay… want) anyway and things that I can tell clients and friends they should be buying (mostly so I can play with them and not have to pay). Also, you’ll see full page spreads on the latest class, conference, or discussion that you should be attending that you didn’t know about before.

Podcast User Magazine
http://www.podcastusermagazine.com
Over 20 issues now, and each one has interviews, news that you should actually read and know, and reviews of upcoming events as well as explanations of past ones. The best thing I like about this magazine is that is usually has some educational articles in it as well. Last month was about microphone proximity. Maybe the very best thing about it is that the online pdf version of it is a free download.

Blogger&Podcaster
http://www.bloggerandpodcaster.com
They are on their sixth or seventh issue now, and it has rapidly become a great magazine. Not only does it have reviews of hardware / software, in-depth looks at conferences, lots of short snippets from podcasting news, but the contributing writers are great. The website is a bit of a struggle to navigate and ‘read’ the magazine from, so I suggest subscribing for the $80 a year.

Looking for some help with your blog (ok, ok, this is my last blog post about blogging… next week it’s back to podcasting)!

Business Blog Consulting is a site devoted to demonstrating how effective weblogs can be for communicating with customers and marketing to new customer prospects. Go there and you will find lots of examples of business and corporate blogs, as well as resources to help you learn more about the topic.

http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/

Wow… a lot of you have been responding to the blogging portion of what I’ve had to say over the last week.  Good to know.  So, the question now is… which blog should you be using?  There is a chart that just about everyone links to instead of doing this themselves… and I will do the same: Blog Software Comparison Chart - http://www.ojr.org/ojr/images/blog_software_comparison.cfm.

The thing to note here is that your show notes can be a blog if you’d like.  A service like libsyn allows you to post not only podcast (audio/video files), but text posts as well.  If a listener subscribes via rss text reader instead of just through a podcatcher, the text post will show up along side your show notes.

Also, my theory?  Don’t pay unless you can’t get a feature (or the space) that you want.  If you’re just starting out, go with the least common denominator and pick something like wordpress or blogger.

This week I talked about the benefits a blog could have to suppliment your podcast. Someone sent me this post to share with you all: http://www.camworld.com/archives/001323.html. Not that bad of a write up at the time for someone who didn’t seem to get podcasting… but what I found more interesting (and humorous) were the comments to the post.

One thing I would like to share:

“Come on, convince me that I’m wrong. I just don’t see podcasting becoming that big.” Posted by: camworld at March 3, 2005 03:19 PM

Oops… kinda missed that one.