Subscribe to the Podcast Version of My Blog Wherever You Get Your Podcasts

For a recent livestream about podcasting related tools, I decided to build a podcast version of my blog. You can watch the video here or it'll be embedded at the end of this blog post.

Why Would I Want a Podcast of My Blog?

You can embed an MP3 in most blogging software and it will play just fine. So setting up a whole podcast feed for your blog might be overkill. But once I tried embedding an audio recording of a blog post, it felt weird to not be able to subscribe to just the audio recordings. It's probably because I spend my day in podcast editing work for clients that my brain is wired this way, so your mileage may vary.

Wait, You Haven't Recorded Audio for All Your Blog Posts! Why Not?!

I'm not sure why this is turning into an FAQ of questions nobody has asked yet, frequently or otherwise, but let's run with it.

First of all, I'm not going to go back to the archives and record for all 1,000+ blog posts I've got. Maybe I'll do an AI version someday. And I won't record audio for every future blog post. Some posts don't feel worth the effort. Some posts are awkward to read out loud. And sometimes I just don't have the time to do it. But if there's a post you've read on my blog that you think deserves the audio treatment, please get in touch!

How to Subscribe to my Blog's Podcast

Every blog post where there is an audio version will now have an embedded player from Transistor, the best podcast hosting platform on the planet, as well as this little call out telling people they can subscribe to the podcast if they want:

Sample embed:

The Video

As promised, here's the longer walk through video of how I set up the podcast feed for my blog with Transistor.

Note: This isn't a tutorial on how to record audio for the podcast, just a tutorial on setting up a podcast for your blog.