Dave Pentecost wrote:
As it happens, I am on this list AND a podcaster, though I've just done a couple of casts so far, which I call "Jungle Tales":
http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/rss.xml
As you'll see, that's an RSS feed with enclosures, and it requirers getting a piece of software called an ipodder (see below). This stuff is not automatic yet but it's getting easier.
I've been posting occasional audio/video blogs to my website over the last 15 months or so, but I only managed to figure out how to add enclosures to my RSS feed in the last week. I have to thank Brian Russell for his excellent podcasting tutorial, which helped me figure out this missing piece of the equation.
http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/brussell/view?PostID=848
I followed the ramp up to podcasting last summer, met with Dave Winer this fall, and I'm maintaining the "Travel" node at Adam Curry's directory of podcasts:
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/podcasts
If anybody has a travel-themed podcast they would like to be listed, let me know. There are also other good links, including how-to and ipodder software, at that site - ipodder.org
Most of my audio/video blogs to date have been travel related, covering my experience at WSIS-related events around the world over the last year (Tunisia, Geneva, Mauritius, Dubai). But they haven't been traditional podcasts in the sense that they weren't edited into a narrated broadcast format; instead, I've been using the text of my blog to serve as the narrative while the audio and video was added for additional multimedia depth. The one instance, I guess, where I played true podcaster was at the Democratic Natl Convention here in Boston this summer, while covering the anarchist protests. Here's a comparison of that podcast with a video blog I posted that same day:
podcast: http://www.audlink.com/mailbox/1587/0407291323.mp3
video blog: http://www.andycarvin.com/000590.html
These two links show the difference between a podcast and an audio/video blog. The first link is an MP3 file I recorded on my phone while walking with the protestors. It's a self-contained story in itself and can be downloaded into an iPod from my blog's RSS feed - hence, a podcast. The other contains a link to a video clip plus text and photos explaining it. It probably wouldn't be considered podcasting because the video clip lacks narrative by me. This isn't a big deal when you visit my blog on the Web, but if you've got your iPod set up to download my video stream automatically, it wouldn't have included the text of my website and would have appeared in the iPod out of context.
Now that I'm getting more technically proficient with podcasting, I plan to podcast from future WSIS-related events that I attend. We're also exploring posting podcasts on the new DDN website.
How am I using this to address the digital divide? At the Lower Eastside Girls Club we are working on girl-produced music, radio, and video as part of a community-wide network. Podcasting will be an important part of the distribution process for all of this.
Podcasting seems like such a natural next-step for kids learning blogging and multimedia in general. Considering how young people flock to tools like iMovie, it seems inevitable to me that a groups of kids at telecentres will develop their own popular podcasts.
Just as blogging lets anyone become their own online author, podcasting will let anyone become their own online broadcaster. It's just a matter of time until podcasting tools become so straightforward and millions of people start doing it.
The revolution will be televised? Blogged? Nope. Podcast.
ac
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