| What's pod casting? |
The Scobleizer talks about podcasting. What's podcasting I ask myself? Well, having poked around at the engadget feed for a little while, it's an online MP3 file, and then an associated RSS feed which people can aggregate. I haven't downloaded any podcasting aggregators, but I imagine a good one might download all the MP3s, and download them to your MP3 player.
It occurs to me that this isn't really a new idea. That doesn't make podcasting bad per se, but it should be recognized that it's been around for a while. For example, The Linux Show has been putting MP3 shows online for years, conversations in IT is another good example, an interesting use which I think more people should pursue is that some of the Linux conferences (including linux.conf.au) have been putting online audio of their talks on the web. I'm not aware of any Microsoft conferences doing this, but it would be cool if they did.
Hey, and why aren't there any Australian user groups putting their content online with this kind of stuff? There must be heaps of content out there just waiting. Web casts are cool, but the applications tend to be a pain, a lot of them make it hard to download the content for off line viewing, and I can listen to an MP3 in my car, at the gym, or whilst working, all of which are hard with a web cast.
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