Connect with the Community
Keep in touch with the podcast community through newsgroups and message boards.
The best way to keep up on what’s happening in the podcasting world is to be an active part of it. You should subscribe to these two message boards and mailing lists:
- iPodder (http://iPodder.org/)
The iPodder site discussion board consists primarily of postings from Adam Curry about additions to the iPodder directory. The real discussions happen on ipodder-dev.
- Podcast Alley (http://podcastalley.com/)
This is an excellent site for both its podcast directory and its bulletin board. Topics on the board include new podcast listings, technical talk, news, and article listings.
Yahoo! Groups
A number of Yahoo! Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) mailing lists discuss podcasting. A sampling of the bigger ones are listed here:
- ipodder-dev
The iPodder development Yahoo! Group. Ostensibly this group is about the development of iPodder, but in reality, it’s a high-traffic list that talks about everything podcasting.
- Podcasters
The second biggest podcasting list. It’s almost indistinguishable in content from ipodder-dev.
- Podcastrevolution
A smaller and newer podcast mailing list.
- Videobloggers
This is an older mailing list that focuses on video blogging. But recent postings cover podcasting topics.
- podcast-review
A small but growing mailing list that reviews the new podcasts on the block.
Registration on all of these is required, but it’s free. That helps keep down the spam. Some of these require a free ...
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