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Monday, October 18, 2004
"But I don't own an iPod!"
I honestly don't get the disconnect here. The strength of the word "podcast" to alienate non-ipod users is astounding. I kind of like the word, but I certainly see Chris Pirillo's point that the term itself makes non-ipodders dismiss this ridiculously important concept out-of-hand.
Tom: Hey, if you're not into podcasting yet, you will be.
Joe: I don't own an ipod.
Tom: It really has nothing to do with an ipod. Any MP3 player will work.
Joe: Oh? Tell me about it.
Tom: Well, a podcast is when they throw media into an RSS enclosure. Then you use a podcatching application to monitor the XML feeds and execute an unattended download the media content.
Joe: I don't have an ipod. It doesn't sound like something I'd be interested in.
Tom: You don't need an ipod. Look, you use an RSS reader, right?
Joe: Hellyeah, I don't visit web pages any more. Everything in my aggregator.
Tom: And you have a Tivo, right?
Joe: Oh yeah. Gotta have my television delivered to me on my schedule. I can't live without Tivo.
Tom: Right. So why wouldn't you want that to happen with your audio content? Go check out doppler or ipodder, I'm telling you.
Joe: Oh. Well, I don't have an ipod.
Tom: [bangs head on table]
I simply don't understand how anyone who groks Tivo and RSS feedreaders can ignore this technology. I feel vindicated because my super-smart spousal unit fired up ipodderX and within 5 minutes knew how important podcasting was. To paraphrase Suck Magazine, the National Association of Broadcasters doesn't understand podcasting any more than the dinosaurs understood that big rock that fell out of the sky. But the lawsuits will be appearing in a few months, I expect.
I do understand if people don't get into Dawn and Drew. But hey, Howard Stern can command big coin, and Dawn Miceli has it all over Stern. "Wait! ... Good night, Inkernet." is destined to be the "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" of 2005. Okay?
So gimme some of that ol' Janx feedback to let me know why podcatching sucks, eh?
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"But I don't own an MP3 player!"
I agree, this is a breakthrough, and I'm looking forward to NPR and its collaborators catching on and providing Car Talk and This American Life as an RSS-encapsulated set of MP3s.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to wrap my head around how this can work for me when (a) I don't own a portable MP3 player and (b) a lot of the content I'm most interested in is in RealPlayer format, not MP3s.
I know there are RealMedia grabbers which can open a stream and save MP3s. And I *guess* there must be a way to get those MP3s into iTunes in a way that makes it convenient to hear them, but it seems like some important metadata would be lost (hmm, do you suppose xy63znf909.mp3 is Tom and Ray ribbing a coed about her transmission or Ira Glass interviewing a deathrow inmate?).
I'm sure there's a known solution.
Meanwhile in another vein I'm playing with WebJay. More soon.
I agree, this is a breakthrough, and I'm looking forward to NPR and its collaborators catching on and providing Car Talk and This American Life as an RSS-encapsulated set of MP3s.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to wrap my head around how this can work for me when (a) I don't own a portable MP3 player and (b) a lot of the content I'm most interested in is in RealPlayer format, not MP3s.
I know there are RealMedia grabbers which can open a stream and save MP3s. And I *guess* there must be a way to get those MP3s into iTunes in a way that makes it convenient to hear them, but it seems like some important metadata would be lost (hmm, do you suppose xy63znf909.mp3 is Tom and Ray ribbing a coed about her transmission or Ira Glass interviewing a deathrow inmate?).
I'm sure there's a known solution.
Meanwhile in another vein I'm playing with WebJay. More soon.
Okay, I captured my limited understanding of this in a blog entry: http://aprendizdetodo.com/toys?item=20041115
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