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RasterWeb! Audio (all over again!)

In celebration of Apple thinking we were smart, and finally catching on to our great idea of last year, I present to you, the complete RasterWeb! Audio RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures! Now featuring every episode ever released…

That’s right, over 30 episodes from the original series! Hear the world of podcasting as it existed back in the dark days of Summer 2004, when the podcasts were few, and the clients even fewer! No ads, no networks of similar podcasts, no proper web site, poor quality audio.. What more could you want!?

iTunes, do your worst!

(Dear Apple, please send me an iPod now.)

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WordPress, XSPF and Podcasting

I’ve been working on generating XSPF files for WordPress, which is really only useful if you run a WordPress site and do a podcast. Is that you? If so, please get in touch with me.

As a side-effect of generating XSPF, it should be very trivial to embed the XSPF Web Music Player into a page on your site. (The player is open-source, and has a BSD License which allows it’s use even for commercial purposes.)

So if you’ve got a podcast, use WordPress 1.5.x, want a player on your site, and can drop a few files into place, let me know.

(Oh! If you are a WordPress Hacker and want to help me with this, please contact me, as my code is not up to WP-standards and I’d like to have some input on it. Thanks!)

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Odeo Trust

I really don’t have anything against the guys behind Odeo, but I can’t help find it curious that we didn’t hear from them back in 2004 when things were happening. An iPod Lounge interview with Evan has this bit:

…we sorta stumbled on the idea of podcasting (although we weren’t calling it that yet) around the same time others did…

I can’t help but think to myself “Why didn’t you get involved?” I mean, I know we have to expect companies to pop up and “take advantage” (?) of the potential of podcasting, but this just makes it seem to me like some guys saw what was going on, went into super-secret mode working all on their own (perhaps tracking what was going on, and “borrowing” all of the ideas) and never contributing antything back. Well, until the company launches anyway. As I’ve said before, I lack business sense, so maybe this is just the way it always works…

The old line about “Would you trust a mechanic who doesn’t own a car?” comes to mind. I still don’t know of any podcasts done by the guys behind Odeo, do they create podcasts? Have they? What do they know about it? Am I being too critical? Maybe it doesn’t matter, but where I come from programmers scratch their own itches and eat their own dog food. Again, maybe they are doing all the right things, and we just can’t see it yet.

I really shouldn’t be so cynical, I mean, they do say things will be open, and there will be no DRM, so I really should just wait and see. My view of their goals is that they want to be the Blogger of podcasting, which, I suppose, is a noble cause. Maybe I’m not really the audience they’re after then, since I’m not really a Blogger user.

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Harold and the History of Podcasting

Worth a read for more background on the whole podcasting thing: Harold Gilchrist’s My contribution to Audioblogging/Podcasting

Chances are you hear a few names tossed about with the words “invented” and “podcasting” near them, but I’d recommend a bit of history, and Harold can provide some… Each person knows what they brought to the story, but often everyone else only knows what they’re told by the media.

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12 Days of Podcasting

I came up with this crazy idea, and since I didn’t think it was something I could pull off, I enlisted Drew to do all the hard work. The result is such: 12 Days of Podcasting. Enjoy…