Podcast Beginner

I have been using computers for years and I can not believe I have not used any of these tools we are going through each week. Granted, I do not work in a office environment but I certainly feel that I am lagging behind the technology curve. I digress.
The whole podcast experience was interesting to say the least. I used Audacity to record the audio. I was not too overwhelmed with this software since I had used it before to create my own ringtones. At least it was not completely foreign to me. I did not use many of the editing tools other than some basic cutting and pasting. The recording went fairly smooth which I expected to be the most challenging. It is hard to pick a particular topic to just randomly talk about but my podcast actually had some ties to a book I have just started, The 5000 Year Leap, A Miracle that Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen . It is about the founding father's 28 principals of Freedom. As far as trying to post to a server, this did not go quite as smoothly. I initially tried Media.org and for some reason was not able to register an account. I tried numerous times without success. I then tried to follow our author's directions to create a separate RSS feed on Feedburner.com. I went through the steps but was still unsure how to post the podcast to the feed. I eventually gave up on this tactic and agreed with Mr. Richardson that if all of this seems like too much work, you might want to check out a couple of Web based pod casting services that make things even easier. I did just that!!!! I use podomatic.com to post the podcast. This site does make it easy. It takes you through it step by step including asking to post a picture with the audio. The only minor issue I had was initially getting it to upload. I could not upload directly from my computer for some reason. There are three ways to upload. I ended up using their uploading option which then stores the uploads in a media library. You then check it out and publish. Podomatic will the send you an email with a link to your podcast. Pretty cool... If you would like to listen to my podcast here is the link http://dbrown9429.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-07-09T19_01_19-07_00