Podcasting through a blog

Podcasting through a blog -

WordPress – Recommended. You can house your Wordpress Blog on the Wordpress servers or on your own server. Wordpress blogs are already RSS 2.0 compliant. Simply paste your podcast enclosure at the end of a blog entry. This is a nice simple option and there are many plug-ins available to simplify things further and provide more functionality.

Blogger – Like WordPress, you can house your Blogger blog on Blogger servers or on your own server. Unlike Wordpress, Blogger does not support RSS 2.0., but there is a free web service called Feedburner that will make your Blogger blog podcast friendly. Listeners will have to use your Feedburner feed to subscribe to your podcasts, but if you already have a Blogger blog, then you need not migrate.

Movable Type – Must set up on your own server. Single non-commercial license is free, but I believe a library would have to pay for an institutional license. Movable Type supports RSS 2.0, but you need a plug-in for it to handle enclosures. For this plug-in, see Brandon Fuller’s MT-enclosures plug-in page: http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/mtenclosures/