Re: Podcasting

[Kevin Reeves]

No gabe. We don't call it podcasting because it's cool. We call it 
podcasting because of the incorporation of rss enclosure tags into the 
picture. Folks like The Snowman and Blind Kiss have been uploading shows to 
servers  for years, but only the geeky ones who were adept enough to 
download  the file and burn it to a CD were  the ones listening to the 
shows. Podcasting has automated this process and with the help of folks like 
Podshow, people can set  up channels of content to be delivered to wherever 
they want. As far as podcast recording software, sound  studio is great for 
recording the audio, but what he was refering to is a program like cast 
laster, which will record the show, allow  you to fill in your show notes, 
and publish to the blog and ftp server. There is currenly one in development 
for the mac. but for  now, you'll have to record  it with the helpof 
something like sound studio and upload and publish it manually. Before you 
go off saying  that everything  is a fassion, just remember gabe that your 
computer skills are more  advanced than the average Joe user. Therefore, 
it's easy for you to search out some little known 3rd party program that 
will fill the need for something like iTunes. however, most folks want to be 
able to use what's out there because iTunes does make it easy to get  music. 
Stop thinking from the perspective  of the geeky tech guy who can and will 
find alternatives. It's not about us. It's about the average consumer. We 
can sit all day long on version tracker, source forge, etc and find the 
cool replacements. what we need to do as a community is to push for 
accessibility for themost commonly used aps because that will benefit the 
greater good.