I’ve wanted to do a podcast for some time now. I’d been thinking about one “heavy” topic after another but to do a podcast properly takes a huge investment of time, something that I’m short of these days.

This morning I was looking at Apple’s iMovie and thinking about doing some more work on a project that I’d set down for a while. That project is to put together a DVD of Janet and my trip to Italy and Egypt a few years ago. When I opened the project file I realized that I could upload each chapter as a video podcast. This would allow me to take advantage of the work that I’d already done as well as motivating me to finish the project up.

Once again I’ve got to say just how cool Apple’s iLife software is. In just a few minutes I’d selected the first few minutes of my movie, selected the “export” button and exported the video to iWeb. A few more mouse clicks and I had a video podcast up and running. A few more clicks and I’d registered it with Apple’s iTunes Store.

So the first two chapters of our Italy trip are now available for public viewing. For those of you who are receiving this blog as RSS, the podcast is at http://www.ericmarsh.info/Erics_World/Travel_Podcast/Travel_Podcast.html. If you are at my web site just select the Travel Podcast link. I’ll try to upload a new chapter of our trip to Italy and Egypt every week or so and when that’s done I’ll see about creating podcasts about some of our other travels.