I'm getting pretty bleeding edge lately...checking out RSS and subscribing to stuff... got a copy of The Game before its publication date...saw Serenity the night it premiered (no, I didn't get to one of its blogger pre-screenings)...hey, I'm just a wild and crazy 21st century guy.
The latest thing I'm looking at is podcasting. I never tried audioblogging, but last fall, in a hotel room in Killeen, Texas, I began reading about podcasting and Adam Curry's iPodder application. Sounded pretty exciting: another use for my iPod Mini, the whole portability thing, no FCC concerns, etc. So it had to be checked out.
This weekend I checked out the new podcast features of iTunes, and also looked at iPodder X and iPodder Lemon (which is what everyone is apparently calling Curry's iPodder), and downloaded a few programs and listened to them.
I liked some of what I heard, but I was struck by a few things:
1. None of the three applications offer really intuitive commands or menus. I haven't come to hate any of them, but I'd like to settle on one and use it all the time.2. Podcasting is going to be bigger than audioblogging ever could have been. I'm not saying that I know how big it'll get, because I don't. But: an iPod Mini, for example, is smaller than a pack of cigarettes, and portability is power.
3. There's more commercial radio stuff available for download than you might suspect -- and it's available free. Public radio stuff, too (well hell, that material should be free -- we've already paid for it). And if archives are maintained, you'll still be able to hear some Air America programs after that outfit goes belly up.
So it's an interesting area with lots of potential. I'm already thinking of a podcast version of The Anger of Compassion...
Posted by Craig Ceely at October 2, 2005 10:22 PM