Over on the Afloat.ie site, I’ve been trying to step things up with multimedia contributions, and yesterday marked a turning point with my podcasts taking a turn for higher quality – some nicer intro sounds, a better microphone connection, and a bit more thought going into how the sections of audio match up (click to hear).

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This links in with my experiments with the micro-blogging service posterous, I’ve been helping motivational speaker and all-round impressive bloke Mark Pollock begin to experiment with podcasting through our ongoing relationship as he prepares for the Round Ireland race. Posterous has been handy for Mark, as it enables him to update his Facebook, Twitter and Blog all in one go via a simple email without having to navigate all those sites individually, a laborious process when you’re using an audio system to ‘read’ the pages for you.

With Mark, who’s blind, podcasting also makes a lot of practical sense. Up to now, he could record audio memos on his phone, email them via posterous, and they’d be automatically posted onwards. It took a bit of tweaking to have them sit into the WordPress blog, but otherwise it’s worked fine.

Yesterday things took a step further. Mark now has an audio-enabled iPhone.

I thought he was mad abandoning a phone with tactile keys for a touchscreen with only visual references. But it works really well. Click through to read more.

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