On podcasting
If the following post doesn’t make much sense to you, you might want to visit ipodder.org for a general overview of podcasting.
The last weekend i spent far too much time on the train and i finally fell in love with podcasting. Now audio content via web isn’t exactly new, i’ve enjoyed some of the Gillmor Gang sessions and Dave Winer’s morning coffee notes for a while and rss enclosures’ve been around for some time as well, but the whole phenomenon didn’t really take off until recently. At my desk i hardly ever took the time to listen to all those mp3s i’d downloaded, but on those train rides last weekend i spent most of my time listening to the engadget podcasts (feed link) while reading last months wired magazine (they take quite long to arrive at local newsstands). It’s a great source of information on the go and can serve as an additional input channel while doing other things. As long as you can concentrate on what you’re doing there’s no such thing as information overload, i say. So if you haven’t done so already, grab an enclosure-aware aggregator (i use ipodder, the application) and give it a try. You might be pleasantly surprised.