There is little to announce this week, but I have made progress.

Both My 2022 Diary and with the publishing of this post, My Podcast Journey, then I am all caught up with the articles. 15 weeks in and fifteen weekly posts to narrate at some point, hopefully soon. With my wife returning to school after the Easter holidays I will have more time and can make progress.

I also added two more short posts to Maximo Bite Size and this coming week I am fairly sure I will finish the last two topics and start a new subject area; you might call it chapter 2.

I did spend time trying to discover the allowed size, file type and file limit for podcast cover art. After reading a few articles which I concluded were old I settled on the following:

• A JPEG or PNG image.
• It must be square preferably 3000px x 3000px but minimum 1400px x 1400px for uploading via RSS feed.
• A maximum file size of 512KB, if graphic rich you may need to use GIMP or Tiny.

It looks as if my downloaded PNG images from Canva are 3000px x 3000px and come in less than 400KB, so I’ll use these without taking them through GIMP which doesn’t save much in file space. If anyone can find fault in this, please shout.

I’ve been calling the podcast cover art a logo and I discovered this is the wrong term. A podcast logo is what you use to market your podcast and doesn’t need to be square. The podcast cover art must be square and is what is loaded to podcast directories.

I think I will be aiming the podcasts at Anchor FM, Apple, Google, and Amazon initially.

The objectives for Week 16 are similar to the previous weeks:

• Start a new blog post page for Mixology, I’ve taken a few photos of cocktails over the last couple of weekends.
• Start adding photos to My 2022 Diary posts.
• Finish Chapter 1 and start Chapter 2 of Maximo Bite Size.
• Add cover art for each podcast episode of Chapter 1 of Maximo Bite Size, including an Excerpt for each episode. Target is to complete 20 by the end of April, currently I have published twelve.
• Start the FSE training course on WordPress.
• Do a trial record of Episode 1 of ‘The Diary of a Digital Nobody’. I’ll use Audacity for this.
• Maintain a daily diary, it is still not a daily habit, I must do better. It takes too long trying to remember what happened, and I am bound to have missed something.
• Start learning how to edit using Descript and the captured Zoom calls.