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Podcasting: Listen to Audio Web Logs on Your Pocket PC!
So you want to not only read your blogs, you want to listen to them too. But not only that, you want to hear them on your Pocket PC. If so, Podcasting/Podcatching is the answer. Kevin C. Tofel has put together a tutorial that should explain it further and help you get set up so you can podcatch in your sleep. "Consumers and end-users are constantly looking for ways to expand the functionality of the Pocket PC. One of the most innovative ways is to participate in "podcasting," a new media movement that surfaced in October of this year. Podcasting is a way to broadcast audio content online. Similar to a text-based Web log ("blog"), podcasting lets people post their opinions and thoughts on the Web in audio form. Currently, there are no controls, regulations, or censoring activities associated with podcasting. All you need is a way to digitally record whatever it is you want to "podcast," using a setup as simple as a computer and a microphone. You can record your thoughts on any subject, conduct live interviews, add background music, and more. Podcasts are typically saved in MP3 format and vary in audio quality and file size, depending on the bit rate you use during the recording process. You can think of a podcast as an online radio talk show. After recording the audio file, the podcaster creates an "RSS feed" file that describes the podcast and location of the audio file. Visit the Wikipedia online encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) for more information on the creation of RSS feed files and other podcasting topics. "
I've tried the Podcatching and personally it didn't really appeal to me that much. It seemed like it might be cool for commutes if you prefer listening to blogs than music. Am I missing something?
I like podcasting because there is a wider variety of "shows" available than on local radio. I'm an avid NPR listener and a mild talk radio listener. Podcasts fit into my life the same way that NPR and talk radio do. I can listen while programming. With blogs, I can't do that. It's like time-shifting radio that I can listen to whenever I want.
Talk radio shows get boring to me after I figure out the "pattern" of the host. Unless the host is fair and reasoned. In my years of listening, I've found exactly one host that is fair and reasoned, listening to both sides of an argument.
If you're the type that doesn't listen to radio or new (to you) music at all, then I would think podcasting may not appeal to you. Well, except if you don't listen to radio because it's boring, trite, annoying, or too patterned. Then podcasting is *perfect*.
Talk radio pattern:
1) Get caller
2) Listen to first half of caller's statement
3) Cut off caller and pronounce stupidity of caller
4) (Optional) Make unsubstantiated and/or unreasoned arguments occasionally supporting superficial claims.
5) Repeat for one hour.
Music radio pattern:
1) Announce "The New 100.3" for the first 3 years of existance.
2) Left-ear, right-ear sweep with beeps, boops, and the echoey AM-sounding voice. Sometimes add siren.
3) Introduce and play brand-new song #1. Play song that sounds exactly like Britney Spears, but may or may not be.
4) Introduce and play brand-new song #2. Play song that sounds exactly like Matchbox 20, but may or may not be.
5) Introduce and play brand-new song #3. Play song that sounds exactly like Nora Jones, but may or may not be.
6) Play lound and obnoxious local automobile ad.
7) Repeat for six weeks with exactly the same songs.
8) Get three new songs. Repeat for three years.
9) Change format to talk, or country, or Adult Contemporary, or Urban. Repeat with three brand-new songs in new genre.
Of course, I prefer getting my podcasts directly downloaded to my Pocket PC using FeederReader. No need for a desktop and syncing and all that. Download on the road.
Videocasting is also coming soon (well, already here for early adopters). FeederReader already handles videocasts, too.
"The future of podcasting is so bright, I gotta wear headphones." - Greg Smith
Author, FeederReader - The Pocket PC RSS reader and podcatcher
Catches video, too! www.FeederReader.com
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