Want to know how to record, edit, tag and upload your very own podcast, using free open-source tools?

Steve Sande of Raven Solutions just published a great podcasting tutorial called Podcasting 101 on the Podbus.com website (in PDF format). He takes you through the process step by step, using the free Audacity open-source audio recording and editing application, and the LAME encoder tool. These programs work on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Once you’ve created your podcast, you can upload it to your own site or use Podbus.com, which currently offers 300MB of podcast hosting, lots of bandwidth and automatic podcast feed creation for $4 a month.

Once it’s live, don’t forget to tell the world all about it: check out all of these podcast directories where you can publicize your podcast for free, and be sure to ping audio.weblogs.com too (read all about blog pinging here).

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