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‘Londonist Out Loud podcast’ is a regular audio guide to London, produced and presented at Londonist. The podcast covers the life and culture of the city.

Since the podcasts are out sometimes more often than once in a fortnight, you could keep track of them through Londonist Podcasts, or even better, by subscribing to the podcast at iTunes- Londonist Out Loud.

All citizens, whether concerned or simply interested, are sure to find the topics of the podcasts very useful, because they cover a wide range of London’s features and plenty of current issues that matter to everyone. So you can hear about “London unfurled, London celebrated and London dissected”, “Inside Battersea Dogs and Cats Home”, or “A tour of the Occupy LSX camp near St Paul’s”.

You will be easily amazed at the variety of podcasts available for any Net user. Whether it is related to politics, or sports, or music, or health, or Information Technology, or finance, there is something for everyone from podcast creators.

For politics updates, look up the Guardian’s Weekly Podcast, just to name one of the available sources.

Access this podcast on latest advances in the IT-related field of cloud computing – Cloudcast: Benefits and challenges of cloud security for your data

With this foreign exchange outlook podcast, you can get the latest currency trends and forecasts at your fingertips.

Music fanatics can keep up with the weekly chart watch UK to check out their favourite icon’s placement.

Heard of ‘Staycations’? Learn how you can make the most of your  own country in this travel-related podcast.

Bookworms in the UK are quite likely to find The Guardian’s book podcasts of some use.

Every week, The Guardian’s literary editor presents a podcast that covers a trendy literary topic. So you can catch author interviews, relevant book readings and discussions, and also access complete recordings of The Guardian’s monthly book club.

Look up the entire series of book podcasts and subscribe to them, free.

There are a few tried and trusted methods to make your podcasts reach the target audience effectively. You can promote your podcast and get satisfactory results if you diligently follow these steps.

• Make a transcript available along with the audio file.
• Use SEO to make your podcast better available in Internet searches.
• Ensure that you subscribe to your own podcasts in as many online services as you can.
• Submit the podcast to directories and get listed, the more the better.
• Use your expert knowledge to contribute useful comments in related forums, podcasts and blogs.
• Use a press release to ‘announce’ your podcast.
• Create and build on an email list – people prefer to know about the contents before they commit hard disk space for audio files.
• Include interviews with other knowledgeable professionals on the subject, and use inbound links from their websites.
• Use credible network affiliations to supply the podcast to niche groups of audience.
• Ensure that you engage your listeners by answering any e-mailed queries, and actively soliciting feedback by mail or phone.

Audacity is a really impressive free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

Audacity has a huge list of impressive features: Read the rest of this entry »

There are a few different phases when creating a podcast. This of course means you’ll probably need more than one piece of podcasting software.

Recording & Editing Audio: before you can do anything else you need to record your audio and you’ll probably want to edit it. Audacity is one of the most popular programmes on the market (and has the benefit of being free for the basic package). There are plenty of other providers – such as NCH – and many smaller free recording programmes. Read the rest of this entry »

There can be little doubt that the BBC, that superb bastion of free speech, is one of the world’s leading providers of free podcasts. Looking at the BBC Podcast page shows just how wide ranging their choice of free pod casts really is. There’s everything from sports, to news; current affairs podcats to historical dramas; Comedy, religion, children’s drama podcasts; free learning podcasts; podcasts in Welsh and any number of foreign languages. If you like free content then you should make the time to get to know the BBC’s podcast options.

Are you new to podcasting – the technology that delivers audio content online, also sometimes called - rather simplistically - radio on demand? In this page you will find plenty of resources on podcasting and other related content on audio-on-the-web.