Sorry guys we should have been more clear... yes okay the wording may be a bit misleading but this is the first instalment of the backstage podcast... the RSS feed is here http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/podcast/backstage.xml we should have put that up right away with the first episode - but I didn't get it written in time so we just put up the first episode for download. We'll add the video and any future episodes to this feed. To be clear - this is a new regular podcast :-) We aim to maybe do something about once a month, and we'll take the topics from the mailing list and invite the people who are most vocal about that issue, and combine that with some 'experts' :-) Interesting point about the wording of 'podcast' there - I spent the last two years speaking about just this subject at several conferences and goodness knows how many briefings - but in the end you're stuck - it doesn't matter how much you'd like to change it and how much it actually means nothing... it's in the public conciseness now and can mean anything from a one off downloaded audio programme, to a syndicated video feed. m
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 13 February 2007 16:28 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [backstage] First BBC Backstage Podcast: DRM and the BBC On 13/02/07, John Wesley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree. I spent a good few minutes looking for an RSS feed with the podcast in it (there are loads of RSS feeds on the site) before just giving up and grabbing the ogg..... The MSM (including the BBC) is guilty of doing this all the time, every time an audio file is made available for download it's labelled a podcast, for example we've had a podcast from space no rss feed was there, just a download (can't be bothered to find the link, but it was sometime last year). And the BBC frequently advertises "download the podcast from our website" I thought it was the feed that was the podcast, not the file, but the way it's advertised is that if I go and manually download a BBC programme, it's just as much a podcast as if I get my feedreader to do it for me. Add to that the fact that I don't own an iPod, just a generic mp3 player, it leaves me wondering is there any real meaning to the word "podcast" at all?
