Posted on 06/29/2005 12:07:16 PM PDT by Bob J
Daily programs now available for downloading to your ipod!
Awesome. It will much easier to get to the content now!
Could anyone explain to me how a pod cast works? Clueless.
From what I understand it is just downloading the talk radio show for a site and putting it on your ipod.
With the new iTunes podcasting does that mean they automatically update weekly? It sounds neat I guess. (Though clumsy if you usually have access to a radio... or streaming radio)
It's a recording of a show in MP3 format. You download a copy after the show has aired. Great for people who want to hear a late night show and need sleep or a daytime show that airs while they are stuck in an office cubicle.
A WARNING: it has become very clear that THE LEFT IS ALL OVER PODCASTING LIKE A WET TOWEL and the right (Limbaugh excepted) has no clue. This is a danger. Here is a growing new technology and the bad guys have beat us to it. NPR is everywhere. So is Ere America. And the communist Pacifica Radio. I'm sure that this is at least in part due to the fact that Apple/Mac tends to be favored by the lefties. But Freepers are pretty tech savvy as is the right in general so something is going wrong here that needs to get fixed. And fast.
So where is the Free Republic Podcast? Or is there one and I just don't know about it?
Rush doesn't really get it either... you have to pay for his.
Yikes. That is very bad news but if that is the case I think we have lost round 1 to The Left. A foolish move by Rush in my opinion.
Exactly right, and in that respect calling it a "podcast" is a bit misleading. Many people can download a podcast to their hard drive and listen on their computer or burn it to a CD to listen to in their car. I don't own an Ipod (I know my kids would confiscate it if I did - I'd get to use it about twice)but I regularly listen to various podcasts (Rush espeially) I have burned to CD in my car. My auto cd player plays mp3 and it's a great way to listen to Rush on your way to or from work when he's not broadcasting.
Technically you are correct but mp3s have been around a long time and podcasting is relatively new. And the name is going to stick.
All that is really new is some organization and an easy mechanism for publishing. Apple's iTunes looks to me like a very easy way for people to get their stuff out in front of the public with very little effort. That is new and that is why podcasting is catching on. Anyone can do it and Apple will let you list your podcast in the iTunes database. At some point this may change (what do they do when there are a million podcasts) but that is the way it is now.
If there was a Free Republic podcast, anyone with iTunes 4.9 could find it in the iTunes Music Store under Podcasts once it was registered. Click-click and it's downloaded to your hard disk. Set your options right and all future FR podcasts get downloaded automatically. Nice system.
Bump for Podcasting.
Thanks for bumping this InterceptPoint!
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