PODCASTING: Novi Fenomen nakon blogova i mp3

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Sta je to "podcast"?

Kao sto je iPod i mp3 bila revolucija, tako se ocekuje da ce podcasting biti slicna.

Podcast je ukratko mogucnost da svako od nas moze da kreira ili download audio file koji moze da slusa kasnije. Program ne zahtijev da je ukljucen u zivo" putem Interneta. Za isto je potreban kompjuter, i za sada besplatan softvare. Apple ga ima besplatan ukljucen u iLife softvare. I ne mora da imate Apple iPod jer bilo koji mp3 je OK.

Ja sam nasao nesto ovdje, ali je sve na engleskom i nazalost, nemam vremena da isto prevedem. Istovremeno, sve sto sam download, povezao sam sa linkovima iz sadrzaja da se moze lakse doci do informacija.

Vidim da je dosta vas progamera i developera, pa je to mozda sansa za neke od vas za nesto novo sto je jos maltene u povoju. Ocekujem da ce te mi jednom platiti pivo kada postanete poznato ime u "podcasting."
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What is it?

First of all, it's still in development, and may not live up to all expectations. But it does work and hundreds of thousands of people are using it every day.

iPodder is small program that runs on your computer. Its only purpose is to download audio files, usually mp3's, directly to your mp3 device. Currently iPod is supported on both Windows and Mac.

And it's not just for iPods! Other devices are supported through Windows Media Player. Any device that can exchange files with WMP will work with iPodder.

iPodder.org is home to the community that develops iPodder applications and programming to subscribe to.

WHAT IS PODCASTING?
Think how a desktop aggregator works. You subscribe to a set of feeds, and then can easily view the new stuff from all of the feeds together, or each feed separately.

Podcasting works the same way, with one exception. Instead of reading the new content on a computer screen, you listen to the new content on an iPod or iPod-like device.

Think of your iPod as having a set of subscriptions that are checked regularly for updates. Today there are a limited number of programs available this way. The format used is RSS 2.0 (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss) with enclosures ( http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/enclosuresAggregators ).

In the future, radio shows like All Things Considered and Rush Limbaugh will be available in this manner, and perhaps other syndication formats will support enclosures.

Update: For a quick sample of the latest podcasts, check out http://audio.weblogs.com/.


HISTORY
Podder - A brief History

My name is Adam Curry, an always outdated bio is available here.

After leaving the US in 1999 for some rest and relaxation in Europe, I met with Dave Winer in New York just as the dotcom bubble was ready to burst. Neither of us had much faith in the utopian promises of endless bandwidth to the home that companies like Worldcomm were making.

I certainly saw several user experience problems with the available bandwidth speeds and using these to 'broadcast'.

My solution came in the form of what I coined The Last Yard. The theory was that it made more sense to treat these broadband connections to the home as an 'always on' situation. Meaning you leave your PC on and connected, so content that takes up large amounts of data and traffic, can be 'dripped in' and made available when ready. Notification to the user once the file is already completely loaded on the computer gives the user a true sense of broadband when you click and don't wait, but immediatley see the result in front of you.

Dave Winer left our meeting and created the enclosure element to the RSS distribution format he had developed earlier, allowing a file to be 'attached' to an rss entry by means of a url pointing to the file.

For the next 4 years we spent plenty of time evangelizing the enclosure element and it's promised power, but never really found the spark to get a movement going.

In september 2003 I was asked to do a one year stint hosting a morning radio talk/music show on Veronica Radio in the netherlands. It was good to be back in radio and extremely fun, but as I was winding down the show in august of 2004 I realized that I still wanted to continue doing some form of radio and that I would need something fun to do while I caught up on sleep and life post living life on the other side of my biological clock.

Earlier in the year when I attended BloggerCon, Dave was maintaining an RSS feed of enclosures containing mp3's of interviews Chris Lydon was recording. I had asked several developers if they would help me create a standalone application that would download these mp3 files and automatically store them on my iPod.

Little did I know then that asking a developer to make your software porgram is almost like asking someone to do your homework for them...

So I wound up learning how to program Applescript, Apple's built in scripting language for the mac operating system.

Observing open source projects led me to believe that releasing my code would attract other developers who might consider fixing and/or contributing to my work.

To ensure maximum joy for anyone working on iPodder, I felt it was important to have a daily file that would be posted in a non-lab environment that developers could use to test their ipodder work with, that's how the Daily Source Code came to be. The name was ofcourse carefully chosen to attract developers...

This 'pied piper' approach worked better than I ever could have imagined! Not only did people start to improve my code, they started building ipodders of their own, which were also contributed to the public domain, all of which were vast improvements on the original program.

Once people started to figure out that it's fun to host and record your own radio show, a community ( http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4 ) was born.

The reason for this overnight success is attributable to the millions of portable mp3 players currently being used, with gigabytes of emprty storage space and the mp3 format itself, which is ubiquitous on all these portable players.

This article in the Inquirer ( http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18152 ) also really helped in getting the word out.

As consumers, we've been trained to think the only way you can fill your mp3 player is by either ripping your cd collection to it, or by purchasing Music tracks from a few vendors. In reality you can fill up your mp3 players withaudio files that contain anything you can record. A show, lecture, weather report, love letter... just like weblogs there's no limit to your own creativity. And now, thanks to the iPodder developers, you too can enjoy broadcasting podcasting your audio to a potential audience of millions.

This is a community where Users and Developers ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ipodder-dev/ ) together, lets have fun!