About a week ago, I made a podcast and was successful in getting listed in the iTunes Music Store. That first podcast wasn’t really an “official” cast, though–I just needed something to fill the space, and so I read the post I made about podcasting and uploaded it. Since then, I’ve been waiting for the right topic to start the real series of podcasts. Alberto Gonzales seemed to be a good topic. As may be the case with a lot of the casts I may do, this was not just a quickie with little detail; I tried to make it fairly extensive, without getting too gabby or getting into boring detail. Still, it runs just shy of ten minutes. But hopefully it’ll give you a good idea about a man who might be a Supreme Court nominee.

So I’ve uploaded the podcast (and deleted the first episode from the RSS feed). However, iTunes is of two minds on podcasts: they have the searchable listing in the Music Store, and then there’s the subscription in your podcasts window. The subscription can be updated immediately, and will show you the new podcast. However, the searchable listing in the Music Store may take a day or more to update. You can still search for “BlogD” or “The Blog from Another Dimension” and find me, but you won’t hear the Gonzales podcast unless you subscribe and go to the Podcast window. More on how that works when I figure it out.

So from now on, I will make a post to announce when I have published a new podcast. The XML feed for the podcasts is here. The episode on Gonzales can be found here (you can either click to listen in your browser, or right-click and download the file to listen with another application). I am also including an iTunes icon into the title of each post with a podcast; you can click the icon to download the podcast. Let me know if the HTML code within the title looks screwy in any way or in any situation.

Sometime soon, though, I’m going to have to buy an actual microphone; I’m using the built-in mic on my Powerbook, and the quality is not what I’d hope for.