To podcast, you need a reliable host for your media files. I use LibSyn because, touch wood, they offer unlimited bandwidth for a seriously reasonable £2 per month. Yes, you heard it correctly. That means any number of listeners listening to any number of files, day in, day out for just £2 a month.
Now I’m going to link a simple Flash player to a LibSyn URL (where a test file is hosted) and see what happens.
[Some time and considerable frustration later] Ok. I’ve worked out that as soon as I post the URL of an mp3 file, the plug-in embeds a player linked to that file that remains at the bottom of the post even if I edit out (which I did) the original URLs from the post. So that means if I only want one, I’m going to have to delete and re-write this post. [Which I've now done]
Not easy to work out – at all, at all, at all. But at least I’ve got a quick, simple audio player now able to play files from my unlimited bandwidth host, LibSyn. Next stop… ah, creating content. 
Podcasting presents organisations with the kind of challenges that sometimes don’t occur to the small business or creative individual. The larger the organisation the greater the need to control and safeguard its data and systems and to prevent misuse. As a result, access to media files beyond the firewall is often restricted to prevent employees downloading illegal or copyright media.
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