World’s of Wayne Episode 45

In this episode I am joined by singer Orenda Fink who graciously accepted my invitation to stop by the studio and chat over a couple martinis. We talk about some of the early days of her career, the later days of her critically acclaimed band Azure Ray as well as Art In Manila and where this Saddle Creek Songstress is headed in the future.

Podcasters can now review and rate other podcasters!

At 8:00 PM, EST, PodasterWhosWho.com released a brand new service where podcasters can review and rate other podcasters. Anybody visiting the PodcasterWhosWho.com web page of any member can add their opinion of the podcast as well as provide a rating from 1 to 5 (with 5 being the best).

It’s pretty easy too. Reviewers simply need to log into their PodcasterWhosWho.com web page, select any podcaster they enjoy, select a rating and finally type in their review. The reviewed podcaster simply gets an email asking him/her to log in and accept or delete the review. Any accepted reviews automatically show up on their member page.

Now, it does not stop there, because starting in the middle of September 2007, we will be displaying a listing of the highest rated podcasters. The podcasters with the highest ratings will appear first, getting more links and downloads to their podcast. How does this rating system work, you ask? It’s simple, but has four steps:

• The number of reviews you receive for your podcaster

• The podcasters with the highest rating score (the total of the 1 to 5 rating system)

• The number of podcasts you review

• The most recent reviews

That’s it. So, in other words, your highest score along with the highest AMOUNT of reviews, coupled with reviews that were submitted recently will have the highest ratings.

So, it makes sense to add your PodcasterWhosWho.com page to your web site, blog, and Myspace page, along with any other place where you get traffic.

We are also developing an API to provide you the benefit of listing your reviews on your web site and blog. We are also preparing an audio promo to tell people to review you on PodcasterWhosWho.com.

That’s it for now. You can always go onto the PodcasterWhosWho.com Google Group and ask people to review you as well or if you have questions.

Heal Yourself Talk Radio Now Uses The Podcast Page Maker

I had a conversion with Rebecca White, host of Heal Yourself Talk Radio, who signed up for PodcasterWhosWho.com, but did not visit the site in a while. She was surprised to find the Podcast Page Maker, a utility which I wrote that allows podcasters to give their podcasts to any web site. It opens a little section of anybody’s web page and displays links to their podcast, a GREAT marketing tool for any podcaster.

So, she surprised me and told me that the Podcast Page Maker would be on her web site in 10 minutes. We spoke on the phone for 15 minutes. So, by the time we hung up, it was there on http://www.healyourselftalk.com/. So, Rebecca, thanks for keeping your word

Heal Yourself Talk Radio is a podcast about balancing your life. So, if you have some unbalance to your life, listen to it and of course, click on her podcast links from Podcast Page Maker.

You can visit Heal Yourself Talk Radio at http://www.hotwebideas.com/gc/directory.php?op=details&u=healyourselftalk.

Information about Podcast Maker is at http://www.hotwebideas.com/gc/rssapidetails.php

Custom Podcast Audio ID

I will be creating 10 second custom audio IDs for your podcast. Nobody is doing this yet, not even Podcast Pickle! If you are interested, please let me know. If I create you one, all I ask for is that you play them on your podcast episodes.

Featured Podcaster: Hottie Workouts

The Hottie Workouts is a cool video podcast hosted and produced by Vivian Jung from Long Island, New York.

If you are into pilates, cardio, and exercising in general, then watch the Hottie Workouts video podcast.

This podcast was written up in several local publications and it one of the leading exercising podcasts on Itunes.

One other accomplishment: Early video podcasts on Hottie Workouts feature a famous dancer from Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.