I edited the code of an existing XML feed to create my own but there were bits I didn't completely understand, so I bought FeedForAll which made life easier. [url]http://www.feedforall.com/[/url] I just bought a nice Sennheiser mic and I use a Mix Preamp that I bought on eBay. My brother gave me a mike stand with boom. The cheap preamp was not producing the volume of sound I needed but my buddy, Danny, gave me a Fostex aModel 450 Mixer and I gives me a lovely amount of volume. To record and for editing I use Adobe Audition 2.0 and also Audacity. I record in Mono at 44100 and resample it down to 32000 to save Bandwidth and download time. Having given 10 speeches for Toastmasters I was pretty much at home with public speaking and this experience also helped when I became a popular blues history guest on a local blues FM radio show. http://www.jazz.fm I've lived a longish life and know a bit about entertaining so the rest is Podcasting history, so to speak.