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What do you call audio content that is available through a paywall or app? An appcast.
What do you call the distribution of audio content through a paywall or app? Appcasting.
Simple, easy to understand, right?
This is my response to Dave Winer’s podcast definition and followup podcast on this topic. Ken Smith eloquently describes the downsides/fallout of a move to appcasting.
Thoughts/opinions? Let’s hear from you!
Good reasons to start a podcast, and good issues to consider.
Neat list of ideas!
Yesterday, I listened to a terrific episode of Radio Open Source, Christopher Lydon’s wide-ranging podcast, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. The show focused on his popular musical, West Side Story. I have played several arrangements of West Side Story and other Bernstein works in concert band and marching band, and they have been some of my favortite band pieces. The conversation between Lydon and Nigel Simeone is a fascinating analysis of many of the songs in the show and looking at the influences of classical, jazz, and Latin music on Bernstein’s creative process. Check it out!
In Episode 3, I talk about some similarities between microblogging and podcasting.
References:
This is a great article, will plan to read this closely before my next episode of the In The Car podcast!
I have created a podcast which is linked to this post (about 4 minutes long) discussing some recent microblogging experiences of mine, and I refer to a “secret project” related to microblogging – take a listen and see if you want to participate (tease!)…
This week, I listened to episode 167 of the Radio Survivor podcast, titled “Alternative Histories of Podcasting“. The guest was Andrew Bottomley of SUNY-Oneonta, and the conversation covered the “popular” start of podcasting (Dave Winer, Christopher Lydon, Adam Curry, et al), and a look at audio available on the Internet before the 2004-2005 time period. The hosts seemed to take issue with defining “podcasting” as the technical tools making it possible to subscribe to audio files (podcasts) and easily load them to mobile devices (MP3 players, smartphones). I do not deny that the examples that Dr. Bottomley gave of Internet audio files pre-2004 were correct, but I think there is a reason why they were not called podcasting – because there was no “pod” available! For better or worse, the iPod was the first convenient audio player, iTunes was the first convenient way to get audio on a device, and the name “podcasting” grew out of the development of these tools and other tools of audio production and distribution.
I hope that Dr. Bottomley will document his research in this area (seems like he is working on a book). However, I am more interested in finding good podcasts to listen to, and playing around with creating podcasts myself. As Dave Winer has pointed out, creating and distributing podcasts is an open platform – anyone can do it. People can disagree on “who was first” or “what is a podcast”, but I want to focus on the practitioners, the people who are creating podcasts, no matter what the topic.
I use Pocket Casts on my Samsung Galaxy S5 to listen to podcasts, and I love it! There is a podcast that I am having problems in getting the latest podcasts in the feed. Ironically, it is the feed for Dave Winer’s Scripting News weblog, the inventor of podcasting! Here is a bug report, hopefully Shifty Jelly can look into this.
Here’s the bug report (per this format):
I selected the Discover option in Pocket Casts, tapped the magnifying glass in the upper right corner, and entered the feed URL (http://scripting.com/rss.xml) into the text box. Pocket Casts then showed this screen:
The podcast that is shown at the top is from 2015 (Silos Vs. The Internet). I was able to download this and play it.
2. What I expected to happen
I thought that Pocket Casts would read the feed URL and collect the current podcasts referenced in this feed (at 1:09PM PST on June 30, 2018, there was one podcast in the feed, dated June 28, 2018).
3. What actually happened
Pocket Casts read some feed that was not the current feed for the URL and provided a list of podcasts that were quite old.
I took a look at the feed given above and my weblog feed (http://andysylvester.com/feed/) and I did notice one difference between them. My feed as a mp3 file as an enclosure, but the Scripting News feed has a m4a file. The mime type is the same (audio/mpeg). Maybe the Scripting News feed should have a different audio type (audio/mp4, perhaps). However, the file plays in Google Chrome.
Shifty Jelly, let’s hear from you!
I created a short podcast (In The Car Episode 1), let’s see what the feed looks like! I am also using the audio post format in WordPress.
