How to Create a podcast with .Mac

Speaking about pod / videocasting, Boinx software, the makers of iStopMotion, have posted a pretty good little tutorial on how to create podcasts with .Mac. The tutorial walks you through 3 basic steps: recording the podcast, uploading the podcast to .Mac, and then creating and uploading an RSS feed to .Mac. For step number 3, they use a program called Feeder, which will set you back $30. That sounds kind of steep to me. If anyone is interested in hearing a how-to on hand-rolling your own RSS feed, let me know in the comments and I'll tell you a sad sad tale of how I put such a beast together once upon a time...

Of course, after you have everything set to go, you still have to take into account bandwidth issues that may arise from offering podcasts over .Mac. Also, considering how hot-to-trot Apple is on podcasting, I wouldn't be surprised if step number two and three in the Boinx tutorial become collapsed into something like, "Upload the recorded file to the podcast folder on your iDisk." Until Apple steps up, this tutorial will suffice. Check it out.