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20050111 Tuesday January 11, 2005

Time to learn more about Podcasts Now that I'm commuting to work everyday, I have 15 minutes each way on the Light Rail to read, listen to music or whatnot. I've been reading Tapestry in Action, but I think I'd like to get into Podcasts. I know a little bit about them, but not a whole lot. In the ideal world, I could subscribe to a podcast's feed in iTunes and everytime I'd synch my iPod - it would grab the latest podcast for a particular site. However, doesn't seem to be the case. As far as I can tell, I have to subscribe to someone's site with a podcast, then manually click on their "mp3" link - and then synch it to my iPod.

Is that how podcasting works? If so, it seems like there's a lot of user effort required. I suppose I can do the manual click-n-listen at work, but I'd prefer a more automated solution for the commute.

P.S. The bagel shop downtown (16th and Cali) has free wi-fi - sweet!

Later: I'm over it. I tried listening to a podcast while writing for the last 20 minutes. It's boring compared to music. I guess I'm not geeky enough. Posted in The Web at Jan 11 2005, 06:40:51 AM MST 9 Comments

Comments:

Just download ipodder from ipodder.org to sync automatic. I listen to the Daily Source Code and like it.

Posted by Edwin on January 11, 2005 at 01:27 PM MST #

Don't sell yourself short! You are incredibly geeky! :)

Posted by 65.100.186.85 on January 11, 2005 at 05:56 PM MST #

as edwin said, ipodder is what you need - but you can also use it to get music not just talk radio. ;-)

Posted by 203.36.157.8 on January 11, 2005 at 08:26 PM MST #

Check out www.itconversations.com - some interesting stuff...

Posted by justin on January 12, 2005 at 05:25 PM MST #

Hi, you could also check out Nimiq, it's another podcatcher, you can find it at www.nimiq.nl By the way there are some great shows out there which just publish music like www.pentdego.com/feeds/motw.xml, http://pentdego.com/feeds/royal.xml, http://pentdego.com/feeds/move.xml

Posted by chaime on January 13, 2005 at 09:30 AM MST #

We're definitely in agreement here - as are Tim Bray and Jeremy Zawodny (http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000385.html). That said, of the IT Conversations, you might give the Gillmor Gang a shot. I find it consistently interesting. Most of the rest of it has left little impression on me, but that show's pretty good. I'm waiting for it to take off with music (http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000399.html).

Posted by Stephen O'Grady on January 13, 2005 at 11:51 AM MST #

Netnewswire 2 supports podcasts and puts the mp3's in a itunes playlist

Posted by Thomas on March 11, 2005 at 02:11 PM MST #

The LA Radio station, KCRW, is really pushing the podcast concept to its listeners. The station is on the cutting edge of modern radio technology (they do live-posts on their website of what they're playing, and have real-time pics of the studio too, for example). All that _and_ their music is utterly amazing. All the dj's pick their own music, each has their own distinct flavour. They also stream over the internet too. Here's the link to their podcast page: http://www.kcrw.org/podcast/ Give it one last try, you won't regret it.

Posted by John on May 16, 2005 at 03:55 PM MDT #

John, I took a look at the page you provided. Too many choices IMO. ;-)

Posted by Matt Raible on June 02, 2005 at 09:36 AM MDT #

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