Monday, December 20, 2004
The Boston Globe looks at the "early wave of fans for a new broadcast medium dubbed 'podcasting' --
audio content that listeners download from websites to iPods or similar
digital music player devices." The story gets a few details wrong concerning the history of iPodder, but captures the enthusiasm that has led to not only amateur podcasts, but contributions by Boston's WGBH, the BBC and more.
The article briefly mentions the point that any computer can download and play podcasts; the iPod-style portability is cool, but not for everyone's lifestyle. Unlike streaming audio, podcasts can put talk shows or music programs on your office or home computer so you can listen at your convenience. (The comparisons to Tivo are obvious.)
The article briefly mentions the point that any computer can download and play podcasts; the iPod-style portability is cool, but not for everyone's lifestyle. Unlike streaming audio, podcasts can put talk shows or music programs on your office or home computer so you can listen at your convenience. (The comparisons to Tivo are obvious.)
Update 12/21:
One of the "details wrong" I referred to above was a line in the Globe
about a "Google-style search engine called iPodder." That had me
scratching my head enough to drop a line to Peter Howe at the Globe. I
thought he meant blog, RSS and podcast pioneer Dave Winer's list at audio.weblogs. com, but Peter says he was referring to the searchable directory at ipodderx.com.
That "x" marks a different crew of developers. Its search isn't much
like Google, but it does look like good place to find new audio feeds.
Another source, right in the Globe's backyard, is Feedster.tv (I've had problems with the search function, but the lists of music and talk sites work).
Elsewhere in Boston, I just noticed that the Christian Science Monitor had its own feature on podcasting earlier this month: 'Podcast' your world: Digital technology for iPod does for radio what blogs did for the Internet.
Elsewhere in Boston, I just noticed that the Christian Science Monitor had its own feature on podcasting earlier this month: 'Podcast' your world: Digital technology for iPod does for radio what blogs did for the Internet.
With some vision problems and a lot of student homework to read, I've been resting my eyes by listening to podcasts
these past few months. Watching -- I mean hearing -- this new medium
take shape has been a cross between listening to international short
wave radio when I was in high school, poking around computer bulletin
boards in the mid-1980s, and seeing my first websites in 1993. (OK,
that probably passes for a three-strike "geek" confession, but there's
more coming.)
The question I keep asking myself is, "what noise could I contribute to
this global audio jam session?" The dangerous part is that despite a
burglary some years ago, I still own a banjo.
7:56:06 PM #
After a long hiatus, I've finally updated the AEJMC Newspaper Division
website with a new officer list, an agenda for the new year, and a
scrapbook of pictures from the 2004 convention in Toronto, which I
wasn't able to attend myself. Photo credits and captions to come, but I
do recognize a few familiar faces from Chapel Hill.
Full disclosure: Newspaper photo editor or page designers may be aghast, but I let the automated "Web Photo Gallery" function in Photoshop produce the scrapbook. I don't like one-size-fits-all tools, but it certainly beats resizing all those images by hand!
3:17:31 PM #
Full disclosure: Newspaper photo editor or page designers may be aghast, but I let the automated "Web Photo Gallery" function in Photoshop produce the scrapbook. I don't like one-size-fits-all tools, but it certainly beats resizing all those images by hand!
3:17:31 PM #
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