Your Story : How We Play the Game of Life

Ok, maybe I’m just thick. But I get a libsyn account thinking that is where I’ll host my domain. But it seems that is where my podcast is going to be based. Then I set up a feed burner account and to burn my feeds through and in setting up the SmartCast feature they want me to post the image location. How should I know. My images are in my folders thats all I know.

I still don’t have any idea how to get the links over here to this blog let alone how to make it all so you only have to get here by punching yourstorypodcast.com, which will only get you to the podcast over at libsyn on the boring page and bypass feedburner anyway and you would never even get here.

This technology is a long way from being user friendly.

My analogy of this age is being like the early days of the cars is still correct. You have to be a qualified mechanic to really know how to drive this stuff.

Oh to be a Geek!!!

Well I just uploaded my first podcast. Unfortunately I’m still working how to pull it all together.

I’ve a domain over at libsyn(yourstorypodcast.com) and they give me a blog to host my podcast onto so I’ve posted my first episode there following their directions and the vidcast that Heidi Miller did.

The problem is I want to get this blog page over there to libsyn or a link back to here. I actually don’t quite know what I have to do but what I want is for someone to punch in yourstorypodcast.com and get this blog and the podcast episode is sitting there. Then when someone gets the feed which I want to send through feed burner I get the statistics and they get the podcast and all they have seen is this site as a blog and web page. I also haven’t got an email set up that is user friendly I want something like ian@yourstorypodcast.com but at the moment I’ve got to put up with yourstory@internode.on.net which is the one I have through my ISP.

For all of these reasons I’m not officially launching or posting to all of the networks as I’m not set up but I thought that the next logical thing to do was to get done what I can do and fix it to make it work as I understand it more.

How do I get this wordpress blog over to libsyn and get it working???

It’s been a couple of weeks and I’m still plodding away at the technology.

Yesterday I managed to get a fair bit done in garageband with the opening and the voice over introduction. It’s not brilliant but it’s a start and I’ll definitely be changing things as time goes by but I’ve realised if I take too long to get it right I’ll never get it underway. Also I realised that the best way to learn is to get started and fumble along the way and improve as I go so that is the philosophy I’m taking.

Today I was listening to the latest episode of Podcasting Underground and Jason mentioned using feedburner and the correct way to link it to my Wordpress blog attached to my own domain which I now have over at Libsyn.

Wow! I’m going to have to set a bit of serious time aside to get my head around on how to get my blog over to Libsyn then link it back to Feedburner so that when I eventually post the podcast onto it the feeds will correctly feed through the way that they are supposed to go. God am I rambling… Yep. I’m not sure how all this works so I’ll just leave it for now and come back later.

I’ve also organized another two interviews so at least I’m slowly getting the raw material together. Bit by bit it’s all coalescing out of the fog but what it’s taking shape into I’m not sure. Stay tuned…