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So I’ve gotten interested in this whole newfangled podcasting thingamagic. Here’s the short version: a podcast is a RSS feed where the enclosure tag contains a link to a file, in this case music files, usually MP3s.
You then use some podcasting software that reads a bunch of feeds, downloads the enclosures, and automatically loads your iPod with brand new music. Pretty clever stuff, actually.
I do, however, lack an iPod. I’ve been thinking about selling my current 20Gb Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen and buy an iPod Mini instead. I’m really not very interested in a lot of space, so the four gigabytes on an iPod Mini will do just fine. I don’t drag my entire music collection along in my pocket anyway.
So I made a podcasting feed of my own. I’ll let you know where it is in the next entry, when I have decided on what song to post.
This entry also gave me the idea to an article about Peercast, a distributed system for streaming audio. Every now and then I set up a stream and play some music for a bunch of friends. As a matter of fact, I stream every time I play music, since my player connects to a peercast station automatically.
In other words, the justification for the war didn’t really matter at all. They might as well have said, “We’re going to invade Iraq because they have too much sand.” And 50% of the American people would have believed that, pitching in to help redistribute the sand to the other sand-poor nations of the world, most notably Canada, which has almost no sand whatsoever but still somehow manages to remain calm. Mike Adams