Saturday, November 12, 2005
We’re live today from the Podcast Expo at the Ontario Convention Center.

Podcasters from 33 countries and 42 states are attending the show. We’ll hear from the biggest and most interesting today.
Photos from the Podcast Expo on Flickr
Today’s news items
11a-Noon
All podcasts, all the time today.
Guests:
Adam Christiansen of MacCast
MacCast is for all Mac users. He uses the $50 Marshall MXL990 mic. Podcaster Special. We both use the Feeder program (for Windows I now recommend Feed-For-All) to generate our RSS podcast feeds.
Robbie Trencheny, 14-year-old podcaster
from the Teen Podcasters Network
Sci-Fi author Scott Sigler
Who got a publisher through reading his book on the Earth Core podcast. It’s a serial like the Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd.
Dawn Miceli and Drew Domkus
From the Dawn and Drew Show (adults only!). They were inspired by Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles, Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code, and Podfather, Dave Winer. Dawn still doesn’t have a sugar glider. They’re part of Adam’s PodShow.
The Engadget podcast how-to got them started, and is still very relevant.
Who needs a label. He promotes Album of the Year via podcast.
He also produces Grape Radio and the official Disney resort podcast.
Noon-1p
Craig Patchett of the Godcast Network
The Godcast Network is a consortium of Christian podcasts including Steve Webb of the Lifespring Podcast and
Reverend Tim.
QRiley in Oregon - iPod with Video vs. PSP
The screens are different but the biggest difference is storage. The iPods hold 30 or 60 GB. The PSP is limited to what you can get on a Memory Stick - at best that’s 2GB. Like all solid state devices the PSP gets much better battery life - 8 hours. The iPod is good for only a couple of hours.
Unfortunately, no single format works on both. For iPods I recommend using Quicktime Pro or the Videora iPod Converter to compress. For PSP use PSPVideo 9.
Adrina Thorpe, singer songwriter
another talented musician who found success on the Podsafe Music Network. She offers her album on CD Baby and iTunes Music Store. Her site is www.adrinathorpe.com.
David Lawrence of The David Lawrence Show
Host of Online Tonight and the Net Music Countdown
Coffee and Crash of Geek2US
They podcast Geek2Us
Doug Kaye of IT Conversations
IT Conversations does 10–12 programs a week on the non-profit IT Conversations channel. They’re hosting audio from the Podcast Expo. The Conversations Network is aimed at capture all the spoken word events that happen every day world-wide.
SoccerGirl Incorporated
The first naked podcaster at http://soccergirl.podshow.com/ - adults only!
1–2p
Chris Breen from MacWorld Magazine
Senior Editor and Mac911 columnist from MacWorld magazine.
Author of Secrets of the iPod and iTunes.
Look for Chris’s first podcast at www.playlistmag.com
Paul Vincent Saurini of Barefoot Radio
www.barefootradio.com
Erik Estrada, one of the Tres Jefes
Tres Jefes Podcast
Jesus Christ’s podcast is available exclusively from KFI - and news is coming next.
Brian Ibbott of Coverville
Q Robbie Trencheny - using GarageBand with the Griffin iMic
I highly recommend using the Griffin iMic for connecting a mic to the PC via USB - but not the Griffin lapel mic! Read the Engadget podcast how-to for details. Soundflower allows multi-track podcast recording in GarageBand.
John Paoli, KFI Chief Engineer
ClearChannel is moving into podcasting in a big way.
Don Katz, CEO of Audible
Audible is announcing Wordcast - a new podcast publishing service.
Chat Logs and Show Audio

Listener Comments
10 November 2005
Hi, just to say I have been listen to your podcasts for over 2 months now and just wanted to say how great I have found it, I live in a little town called Barnsley, south Yorkshire in the UK.
Keep up the great work, bye for now cheers Lisa
Hey Leo, I’m also from the UK and I love listening to your KFI podcasts (as well as TWiT and Security Now!). I’m a laptop engineer and I’m always troubleshooting so I find it interesting to see how you deal with people’s technical problems. Also I switched to Mac about 6 months ago and haven’t looked back since!
Hi, Leo i have been listning to your podcast for about 5 months now it all started from browsing the iTuns podcast selection and it said KFI tech so i started to listen and i got allot of tips THX allot keep up the work i hope i get to meet you one day Take care
Quote from KFI Tech Guy #192
“If you buy at the itunes music store… you have to have an ipod” …WRONG!!!
correction, you do not have to have an ipod, I buy songs from itunes all the time and put them on my iriver player…(am getting ipod G5) in the next few months.
granted you have to burn the songs to CD first and then reimport them as mp3… but it works
just thought you would like to know
thanks
Mark
ps.enjoy the show
hurrah! I’ve re-discovered Leo Laporte on KFI 640. I moved to a different location within Thousand Oaks, CA towards the end of 2003 and no longer recieved TechTV and was sad to see that channel disappear from my daily life. I’ve been a KFI listener since I turned 20 over the summer and I just read a brief history about the fate of the old network and am now proud to once again be able to listen to Leo Laporte on KFI AM 640 More Stimulating Talk Radio…I still have my “The Screen Savers” screen saver! ah good memories
11 November 2005
Hello from Iowa, listening to you with iPodder. Better than watching corn grow
“ “If you buy at the itunes music store… you have to have an ipod” …WRONG!!!”
correction, you do not have to have an ipod…”
There is a difference between recommendations (like Leo gives) and technical possibility. Yes, it is possible to jump through hoops and decompress your compressed music onto a CD then recompress all over again into another format. But nobody would recommend that this is a good way to do things. The truth is that if you want to purchase from the iTunes music store, the iPod has no real competition in terms of integration and hassle factor not to mention time and sound quality. No other device even comes close today. Recompressing music degrades it.
12 November 2005
THX leo for you tips , i patched up my windoews system
Leo: I fixed your listing in the show notes. You have to put the ]] after the url.
Have a great time. WJ
Well perhaps this is a first. I’ve been very curious about podcasts, but too busy/nervous to try it out. So today I took the plunge - I downloaded Leo’s podcast about podcasting to learn about it! Now there’s something anomalous about that, isn’t there?
Hi Leo,
I got interested in Podcasts after hearing from some friends that you had nearly reformed TechTV via your podcast tWiT. I noted, listening to show archives via iTunes that you are all podcasting this week, so thought I might toss a comment in the hopes you might be able to answer. I am trying to get a podcast launched, but notice that iTunes requires a credit card in order to set up an account, which is required to add a podcast to their directory. Is there any service that manages your iTunes entry for you for no or low cost? I do not have a credit card, so I clearly cannot set up an iTunes account.
Hi Leo,
Thanks for all the information. Your tech tips have always been helpful, and now you may have help me find a release for a big passion of mine by doing my own podcast someday. Thanks for sharing the info.
Hello Leo
Nice to meet you on Friday in Ontario, CA
You do have great shows and I have been listening to you since back in the days of zdnet TV.
13 November 2005
Leo, yesterday at about 13:45 hours you told a young man that any audio being put into a computer should first be put through??????? What? It is some type of device about the size of a hockey puck, I think you said.
Thanks.
From David:
It’s a Griffin iMic - great device for getting audio into your computer via the USB.
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/imic/
I bought mine at Frys for under $20.
Passion…If your keynote speech was the FIRST Friday morning, Leo, I wonder how much you would have deflated the speaker who saw podcasting as a revenue source. Leo spoke to those assembled for the Podcaster convention in Ontario, California - and his message was pure and simple: develop your podcast for the sheer love of your interests, and the medium. I was much more appreciative of Leo’s message than the “how to make money” theme presented by others.
Clint Bradford
Riverside, CA
D00d! Thanx again fer the replacement autographed photo! J00 R d@ |<00l35+!! ^_-
Should tell Steve Gibson ‘b0u7 u51n9 l337 4 p@$$w0r|)z
^_-
It was great, he signed my ipod. :D
Leo, thank you for taking the time to interview me on your show Saturday… as an independent artist, it was great to share how podcasting has helped my career, and great to meet you!
Adrina
www.adrinathorpe.com
14 November 2005
15 November 2005
13:34 by tom ?.
the link for David Lawrence and the soccer girl interviews?
where can I find them?
thanks.
16 November 2005
Wow, my name is James and I am from the UK too! I am developing withdrawl symptoms from having exhausted the entire back-catalogue of TWiTs and Security Now and so am hoping to releive the symptoms with the KFI show.
Great work Leo
Hi,
This is just to say I love the show. I listen to it on my iPod while I walk to work (40 minutes walk).
It makes my trip very enjoyable.
Keep up the good work.
17 November 2005
The Twit is definitely headed for the can!
I am told that there was a company that helps develop a podcast for us is that true? I missed most of the show.
thanks
19 November 2005
Thanks for having us on Leo…you changed our lives forever. I pee muich straighter now :)
Have a wonderful day!
Coffee
geek2us
18 May 2006
In the mountain community of Lytle Creek, CA, there is no hi speed internet access that I know of other than (expensive) satellite hookup. If you have any other suggestion, please email me at ronniemcd@msn.com
04 July 2006
Hi Leo,
just a quick tip from overseas (Belgium) here.
I’ve knoticed that quite often a caller goes and asks why and if he should switch to Mac. Often you’d say that one of the big differences would be the software. Well, you could let them check out podcasts as The Maccast (all things Macintosh) and NeatLittleMacApps (my podcast about … wel Neat Little Mac Apps). the’ll soon see that there’s just a slew of cheap, or free usefull apps/ways of working that would allow them to roll into OS X without a lot of fuzz.
Listen to each ‘podcast’ show you put out there, Thx for that.
Frank