Podcasting

Adam Curry created iPodder script, an enclosure that was extended by Dave Winder to handle other media. Many podcast files are in mp3 but does not have to be so. Francis downloads hours of podcasts and listens as he is driving.

Need computer, internet connection, software to play mp3, podcasting software like iPodder, an audio card, speaker, headphones or a portable mp3 player like an iPod. You choose how much will be downloaded and move to iPod to listen or listen at your computer workstation.

Podcast making requires computer, microphone, audio editing software and then place to upload for others to listen. Can upload to Apple's index of podcasts; can use a web site.

See Shepherd's Art&CreativeNews blog. http://www.carolinafcpug.org/forum/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=10&

Netnewswire is a fine blog posting reader for the Mac, e.g., news aggregator. Can drag and drop a blog's feed icon or type in URL of blog with this reader. iTunes can handle this too.

I prefer Apple's new version of Safari, which enables me to run only one application when web browsing to find standard web pages and grab any blog postings that I have syndicated.