Comments on: What Everybody Ought To Know About Podcasting: Part II

By: Check it out! 06/07/2009 | Feed for the Brain

Check it out! 06/07/2009 | Feed for the Brain — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 03:39:33 +0000

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By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:16:48 +0000

Thanks Gail for sharing the link. Will definitely check it out in more detail!

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:16:02 +0000

Hi Stefaan, totally agree with you regarding bandwidth. That is definitely an important consideration on a podcast site. However most educators aren’t looking normally at large downloads and if they use Edublogs they don’t have bandwidth restrictions like they have on a podcast site.

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:14:17 +0000

Just thought I’d share this link I came across today on what a podcast is and how to create one. http://yoursmarticles.blogspot.com/ The author of the post is one of the folks I follow in Twitter. Wanting to know about who @mrshoward was and just why I chose to follow her, I opened up her blog.

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:12:56 +0000

By: Devia

Devia — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:17:59 +0000

Just a little correction. 3 episodes a month of 20 minute high quality audio is about 60 Mb (on average), not 170. Still for an audience of about 100 people, that would require a monthly bandwidth of about 6Gb.

Sorry for that, used the wrong numbers to start with.

Regards,

Stefaan

By: Devia

Devia — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:04:04 +0000

One thing I would suggest is to try and estimate how much bandwidth you will need in order to deliver the podcast files to your subscribers.

For example :

On average a 20 minute high quality podcast is about 56 Mb in size. If you are going to publish 3 episodes a month, you will need almost 170 Mb to host the files.

Now take your audience into accout ! Lets say your podcast will be consumed by 100 people each month, so you will be using 17.000 Mb each month on bandwidth for supplying the episodes to your audience (16 Gb).

As you can see, the bigger the audience (or the bigger the podcast files) the more bandwidth you will be consuming, which might get pretty expensive. That is one of the reasons why I have been using LibSyn. You pay for a certain amount of MB which you can upload each month, and they take care of the rest. No bandwidth restrictions.

So, it is indeed fine to host your Podcast files on your website, but please have a look at your monthly bandwidth limits.

Regards,

Stefaan

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Reports from the Asylum » Bookmarks for June 1st from 06:36 to 15:36 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:14:27 +0000

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By: Purple cup

Purple cup — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:37:42 +0000

Yes, learning the