Blogs are very simple websites that act like long online lists of content. Myspace has a blog within each space, so you can use your myspace blog or I would recommend using the google blog service www.blogger.com. Blogger is a really user-friendly blogging site. It takes literally minutes to set up a blog.
When you have your blog you can create a post and title it after your first podcast event, let’s call it ‘Pod-Poets Session #1’. Your twango account where your audio is living is going to allow you to do two very important things. In the ‘Pod-Poets Session #1’ post it’s going to allow you to create a twango player so that people can listen live to the audio on your blog. Also it’s going to allow you to create a link back to your audio on twango as twango creates a unique address like a youtube posting (click here to see a posting on my Contemporary Jazz blog to see how this looks). That link to your twango audio has a very useful ‘Podcast’ button down the bottom of the page alongside other useful buttons that say ‘RSS’ and ‘XML’ (I’ve spotted that these functions seem to have glitches but they will in time be fixed).
This particular 'penniless podcaster' recipe is assuming the vast majority of people who want to subscribe to your podcast will be using iTunes (we've not tested this on Juice!), so all they have to do is hit the ‘Podcast’ button and automatically iTunes will subscribe and download the episode you’ve posted. Now each time you load an audio or video file to the channel in twango (let's call the channel - podpoetspodcast)the person who has hit the 'podcast' button on that page on the twango site and subscribed will get an automatic download to their iTunes.
Well done you have created a top notch podcast with little or no money save your basic equipment and thousands of people can download it with joy!
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