Published on May 23, 2007
in Podcast.
The holy grail for authors is finding new sources of readers for their stories.
I’ve been wanting to check out podcasting for a while as it seems to be growing in popularity everywhere. The wonderful news is that it appears to be relatively easy to implement. My first effort is to pod cast my Christmas short story for 2006 entitled Three Christmas lovers.
After some research, I found the best way to podcast my stories is to use blog technology because podcasts are technically closely tied in to RSS feeds which are provided automatically in web logs. One of the systems I use is Wordpress weblog which has several special plugins to handle podcasts and makes it relatively easy to produce the web-log podcast.
Creating the podcast sound file (mp3) needs audio recorder software in your computer. Audacity offers a free, cross platform sound editor as a free download for the recording and also provides links to the Lame mp3 encoder that can be used to convert the sound file to mp3 format (but check out the legal issues also discussed there).
Before you rush madly into podcasting, it’s a good idea to make sure you have lots of bandwidth available from your web host. Three Christmas Lovers short story podcast file is three megabytes in size which is a lot whereas the text version of Three Christmas Lovers is very much smaller.
In conclusion, pod casting is a great way for an author to reach readers who prefer to have a story read to them. It is relatively easy to implement with blog technology but the size of the files can soak up bandwidth all too quickly.
Happy pod-casting 
Bye for now
Rob
Published on January 15, 2007
in Podcast.
Shooting at apple trees in West Somerset, UK! Why would anybody want to do that for year after year until it became a tradition? Must be something to do with the cider and folk music - or maybe it’s all about being together as a community!
Read the text article or listen to the podcast about wassailing.
Published on January 11, 2007
in Podcast.
Welcome to Seductive Living Icon which is a podcast humorous short story written and read by Rob Hopcott.
An office worker is surprised to discover an attractive female desktop icon on his computer. The desktop icon can talk and appears to be helpful in surprising ways…
Click here if you would like to read Seductive Living Icon in text format.
To listen to Seductive Living Icon as an audio podcast, click on the player below.
I just love this podcasting technology so more short stories as podcasts coming soon
By for now
Rob
Seductive Living Icon - a humorous office short story written and read by Rob Hopcott:
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Published on January 9, 2007
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Three Christmas Lovers is a Christmas short story romance from Rob Hopcott which has been recorded as a podcast.
Seated in the story telling chair of a remote English West Country inn at Christmas time, a beautiful young lady tells the story of how she came to have three lovers, how they competed for her charms and how she resolved her dilemma.
I hope you enjoy Three Christmas Lovers as a podcast. If you want to read the text version visit Three Christmas Lovers text version.
More of my short stories, novels and novellas will be podcast as soon as I can set them up and sort out the bandwidth issues so please watch this space with your RSS aggregator.
Bye for now
Rob
Three Christmas Lovers - a short audio story by Rob Hopcott [3:33m]:
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Published on January 9, 2007
in Podcast.
Here I will post podcasts of my free online short stories, online novels and novellas. I hope you enjoy them.
This blog is RSS enabled so that you can keep track of updates automatically by putting the url into your news aggregator. Read about how news aggregators can help you.
Bye for now
Rob
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