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Podcast Academy: Video Podcasting
At the recent Podcast Academy at Boston University, Hipcast community manager, Steve Garfield presented Video Podcasting and showed the attendees the features of Hipcast. Watch the presentation in a...
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Personal Democracy Forum: Political Videoblogging
At the recent Personal Democracy Forum in NYC, Hipcast community manager Steve Garfield gave a real time demonstration of how easy it is to take a video using a digital camera, and post that video to...
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Starting a podcast from scratch
One of the things people have told me that they like about Hipcast, is having the flexibility in the ways they can set up where to publish their audio and video. Here are the differences between the...
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The migration Audioblog/Hipcast continues…
We’ve been moving things around to continue our re-naming from Audioblog.com to Hipcast.com… Your old URLs will still work (such as http://username.audioblog.com/rss/……..), as they will with...
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Video: Is the Medium Still the Message?
The video from my session at the Media Giraffe Summit is now online: Merging Forms: Is the Medium Still the Message? [ QuickTime ] Includes: Robb Montgomery, Paul Grabowitz and me, plus all the...
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Hipcast Workbench: Introduction
Hi. Steve Garfield here. This brief video is the first of a series of short videos that will show you how to make audio and video podcast using hipcast. This is an introduction.
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Hipcast Workbench: Your First Audio Podcast
It’s real easy to record audio with Hipcast. You don’t even have to use a computer program to do it. You record directly after logging in. It is SO easy. This video shows you how to record audio...
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Hipcast Workbench: Your First Video Podcast
Just as simple as making an audio podcast. Make sure you have a webcam. Then choose record. Save it, and then choose a podcast to send it to. It is really, really easy. You don’t have to be a...
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Audio Upload Demonstration
How to convert an MOV audio file to MP3. There are a few extra steps you need to take prior to uploading an audio file that is created with Quicktime Pro. QuickTime Pro saves your audio file as a .mov...
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Hipcast Workbench: Audio Upload
In this Hipcast Workbench I explain how to record, save and upload audio to Hipcast, and post the uploaded audio to your blog. Discussed in this video: Hipcast Quicktime Pro Audacity Check out my Audio...
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How To: Make your audio post a podcast
I just listened to a charming podcast by Claude in Paris. She asks in it, how does she turn the audio, posted to her blog, into a podcast? First of all, I see that her blog automatically supports RSS...
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Update on Blogger Beta compatibility
We’ve had a few questions about Hipcast’s incompatibility with Blogger’s beta system, and posts not appearing in a new blogspot blog. Currently, our audio/video-to-blog system does NOT work Blogger’s...
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Support: Phone recordings not posting
Update: Everything is seemingly back to normal; we had a hiccup that was caused as a result from a recent data center move. Contact support through the Hipcast.com web site if you are still...
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11/29 Momentary interruption in service
Today we had a momentary interruption in service due to a server restart. Everything should be back to normal and operational. Anyone experiencing further difficulties that may have arisen from today’s...
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New mobile podcast call-in number: (214) 615-6431
We’ve been running two numbers for about six months now after notifying Hipcast customers about the switch earlier in the year. The old number has been finally disconnected (we kept both for...
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Slow transcoders back to normal
Some of you may have noticed a delay in posting audio from your mobile phone or some posts not immediately showing up on your blog. There was a bit of a slowdown with the existing transcoders and we...
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Upcoming updates: Blogger, Caller ID, Stats/Graphs
We’ve got some long-awaited updates coming this week and in the following weeks. Here’s a breakdown of the various updates: The new Blogger system – Google recently took the new Blogger out of beta and...
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Typepad/MT error resolved: noname blog
Update: A previous issue that existed and was resolved on 1/18 had resurfaced and has been corrected: Unable to post to blog service: DBD::Pg::st execute failed:ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer:...
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Using Hipcast to the New Blogger by Google
It’s been a rocky road getting integrated with Google’s Blogger, and we’re almost out of the forest (we do not have a certificate from Google that ‘authenticates’ us, so there will be an error– we are...
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Blogger vs “Blogger beta”
Every day, we get more questions from members asking “Why can’t I post to my Blogger blog?” and “Why are you broken?” The simple answer is, we’re not broken. Google and the Blogger team, in their...
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