Open your chosen Podcast aggregator and add a new feed. For
the URL, use your blogspot address (http://yourblogname.blogpost.com).
Once your feed is added, check for new content. Your new post should come up as
available for download, and the episode title will be the same as what you
typed in the “Title” field of your post. Feel free to download the file and
listen to it through iTunes to complete the test, but seeing the new content is
enough to confirm that you have set up a rudimentary Podcast of your very own.
Thanks go to Tom Higgins (http://blogcasting.blogspot.com/)
for discovering this simple Podcasting method.
Advanced Blogcasting
If this “blogcasting” method is too simplistic and
restrictive for your purposes (i.e., you would like to have a website to
support your Podcast), there is a way to trick blogger.com into allowing you to
post normal text updates without interfering with your Podcast feed or
cluttering your page with extra gunk generated by the blogcast script.
Return to the “Template” section of your blog configuration
and select a new template. Republish your blog, then select “Template” again.
Under the section of the template called
/* Profile, add a new CSS element called “hideme” as follows:
.hideme {
visibility : hidden;
}
Now copy and paste the original blogcasting code into the
section of the template called “#sidebar”. It is better to place it at the
bottom of the sidebar since each entry will add code to the page and could
potentially displace elements that are underneath where you place the code. I
placed mine at the end of my “Links” section and it has worked just fine, but
you may need to do some experimentation depending on the template you have
chosen.
Once you have placed your code, add a div element directly
before and after your code to call the “hideme” attributes: