A week or so ago here, I asked a question about the distinction -- if
> any -- between 'podcasting' and audio/video 'streaming' which is a
> technique which has been on the net for a long time.
Podcasting is a subscription service like RSS. indeed it uses RSS for audio files. You select the content, e.g. the daily radio program you want to listen to, and it is downloaded in the background, ready for you to listen to when you want to, rather than when it was originally broadcasted. Download ipodder and try it!
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Podcasting is a subscription service like RSS. indeed it uses RSS for audio files. You select the content, e.g. the daily radio program you want to listen to, and it is downloaded in the background, ready for you to listen to when you want to, rather than when it was originally broadcasted. Download ipodder and try it!
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Regards,
Colin
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But I do that now. I go to a web site with audio/visual content and click on a link which says 'listen to what this man said on the radio last week'. Either I listen to it then and there as it is pushed out to me, or I 'right click' and save the file to my jillion Gb hard drive and play it later. Is ipod just another thing similar to Real Player or Windows Media or QuickTime? And for convenience in use, I can always fire up my laptop with the 802.11 card can't I? And you may pay for RSS content; I do not. I use many java scripts in td-extra which go all around the net looking for things it (meaning me, of course) wants to see, and brings it back to my web site. There are countless numbers of 'syndicate our news for free' pages everywhere on the net. Why do people pay? Maybe they are too dumb (or not brain-diseased enough like me) to get what they want for free? PAT]