An interesting article on how iTunes affected podcasting and podcasters in its first week of podcast support. It’s funny because until this release of iTunes there wasn’t much podcasting coming from the major media networks, but now they are plastered all over the Itunes podcasting Site. What idiots! Oh well. Oh and according to Itunes, The top Podcast of the week is the “iTunes New Music Tuesday,” Gotta love it! Sigh.

Was released for download today with the much anticipated “Podcast” feature. I checked it out… Pretty cool. You can now browse and subscribe to thousands of podcast right in Itunes. Unfortunatly i don’t see much of a need for the Ipodder clients anymore. I think it’s going to bring podcasting to a whole new audience! Watch out!

Ohh and yeah Interstate 1002 is in their directory

Well my true quality Ipod listening time just happens to occur on my daily walks to and from work. That usually works out to about 30 min each way. Like many people who listen to the radio on their daily commute they prefer talk. For me it just makes the time go by much faster. A key reason I was interested in Podcasting. After downloading Ipodder I was looking through the hundreds of podcasts and could have picked several of them but since my time was limited to about an Hour and I didn’t want a huge back log of podcasts sitting on my harddrive i decided on two. The first was suggested by my brother. It was the Chris Pirillo Show He was some guy that used to be on tech Tv and now does a weekly podcast from his home and from various tech related conferences he attends. If your a dork you might like and most of the time I don’t mind it though his voice does get on my nerves sometimes. You may see two podcasts a week from him so it certainly doesnt fill all of my time. The other one I decided to check out was The Daily Source Code. This was from the guy that pretty much pioneered this whol podcasting thing. I wrote about him a few weeks back. Anyway I’m hooked on his show. I can’t remmber the last time I was so excited to listen to something like this. Like they say about podcasting, it’s real and his show is, He’s done a show from an airplane and while cleaning the kitchen being Mr. Mom. But there is more to it that just that. For one, He talks alot about the whole podcasting thing. which I had mentioned before, I’m really interested in. Every show he plays a clip from another podcast to give you a feel for what’s out there., and he keeps it interesting with musical “podsafe” contributions such as the “Hit test” and the “mashups” So to wrap it up Reading Rainbow style. If your looking for something to listen to that’s new, exciting and real and your interesting in the podcasting world, The Daily Source Code will be Top Notch!”

I Must admit I’m intrigued and confused about this whole “podcast” phenomenon. I heard about it months ago but the concept really didnt make much sense to me. Essentially people record some sort of audio based show (news, talk music etc) then create an mp3 andupload it to a server for people to download (usually to their iPod or similar device) At this point these people can listen to it at their own will. Now who is going to want wait for for such a (I’m assuming) fairly large audio file to download. Usually with mp3s we’re talking roughly a meg a min so 30minutes = 30mb

Anyway, 4-5 months later I’m reading this article and it turns out Adam Curry you know that old MTV personality from the late 80′s early 90′s c’mon the one that looked like Bon Jovi?!? well, he pretty much started this whole podcasting thing. In fact he taught him self the apple scripting language to write the ipodder software that helps you move podcasts to your device. I really like the concept I would just expect a smaller file format or something. But now that I have a high capicity digital audio player, I may explore this down the road. Hell, if I find a cast I dig I could see the worth.