About two dozen online journalists joined an Online News Association panel discusson on podcasting on June 13, hosted by CBC.ca, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website.

Topics covered during the talk included how to set it up a podcast, the technology involved, what type of content works best, how the medium is different than blogs, and how to attract an audience.

Panel members represented a cross-section of Canadian media and included:
Amber MacArthur, Canada G4 TechTV Host (www.commandN.com)
Chris Carter – The Toronto Star (www.torontostar.com),
Steve Pratt – CBC Radio 3 (http://radio3.cbc.ca/ )
Angela Misri – CBC Radio (http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/radio/ )
Tim Clark – Canadian Press (www.cp.org )

The panel was organized by Anjali Kapoor, Content Product Manager for Yahoo! Canada, and Jonathan Dube, Editorial Director for CBC.ca and ONA Second Vice President.

You can listen to a podcast of the panel on podcasting here:
http://www.journalists.org/media/ONA_PodcastPanel_Toronto.mp3

Here are tips and useful links shared during the panel discussion (compiled by Amber MacArthur):

3 things you need to upload a podcast
FTP program to upload to the server
xml for RSS feed
something to make an MP3 - Libsyn - Big in Japan

Podcasting tools/software
Libsyn (for hosting/direct downloads)
http://www.libsyn.com

Audioblog (for hosting/Flash files)
http://www.audioblog.com

Big in Japan (Podserve - tool to create/host/list your podcast in iTunes and Odeo)
http://www.biggu.com

Audio Hijack Pro (Mac software for recording Skype interviews)
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/

Audacity (Cross-platform software for recording audio)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Skype (to conduct long-distance audio podcast interviews)
http://www.skype.com

Video podcasts (tech)
commandN
http://www.commandN.tv

Rocketboom
http://www.rocketboom.com

Audio podcasts (tech)
http://www.twit.tv