Kevin Kofler wrote:
Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic <at> gmail.com> writes:
first excuse me if this is the wrong mailing list. If there is
fedora-marketing or some similar :) mailing list please point me in
the right direction.
There is a fedora-marketing-list indeed.
But to answer your suggestion: I personally don't understand why all the fuss
about podcasts, IMHO written plaintext is more convenient for things like that
(easier to skim over, easier to find a section when going back to something you
already read, easier to search automatically (fulltext search), easier to find
in a search engine too (fulltext indexing), no need to either put headphones on
or have everyone around listen to the podcast too whether they want it or not,
can be consumed on a machine with no sound at all (as in some offices) and of
course faster to download too).
One word: commuting. Podcasts do to talk radio (or the internet
equivalent) what tivo does to television. While it is absurd to hope
that an interesting personality will be chatting on a live broadcast and
conclude at precisely the times you are trapped in your car for the
daily commute, it is quite easy to subscribe to a podcast and automate
the transfer of new content to your ipod/player. Then it is a matter of
pushing the button to pause/continue at convenient times. It's also
great if you work out regularly on a treadmill or similar device that
doesn't require your full concentration. Sometimes way a person is
saying comes across differently when you listen to an interview compared
even to reading a transcript of the same thing. I tend to prefer the
ones moderated by someone with actual broadcast experience like Leo
Laporte or fast paced ones like CNET's Buzz Out Load.
If you have access to a windows or mac box, fire up itunes and look at
the huge (and free) selection aggregated at the itunes store. Most may
be available by other means but that's the easiest way to browse a large
choice in one place. I'm not sure if there is a pure-linux way to
access this catalog or subscribe directly though. With itunes you click
to subscribe and can configure it so new items automatically sync to an
ipod when you connect to recharge and 'listened' podcasts are
automatically deleted - and you can make a 'smart playlist' that keeps
the newest items at the top.
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