The pod­cast for Ideas3, the speak­ing event with John All­sopp and Mark Boul­ton pre­sented by Port80 on April 11, is now live.

We had the record­ings already, we got the tran­scripts done by the bril­liant Cast­ing Words, and the pages were cre­ated, there were just two things that needed to be done before we could put them live: the pod­cast rss file itself, and a (prefer­ably ani­mated) star­burst image for the site, to con­vey the excite­ment we were feel­ing at pre­sent­ing our first podcast.

While Si stepped up to take care of the sec­ond duty, I used Maxine’s notes and some dis­sec­tion of the WSG and WE05 feeds in order to com­plete the first. See­ing as there were only two items, our pod­cast is 100% hand­crafted. Dave even installed iTunes on his note­book (in a vir­tual machine, admit­tedly) to check if the iTunes-specific fields came across (they do) — that’s love! I con­firmed that Feed­De­mon, with the Feed­Sta­tion pod­catch­ing com­po­nent, also worked.

So, here they are: check out the page, be mes­merised by the star­burst, read the tran­scripts, lis­ten to the audio: Ideas3, now with pod­cast good­ness. If you’re not the pod­catch­ing type you can still down­load the audio files individually.

And if you’re ever cre­at­ing a pod­cast feed, don’t for­get to validate!