Dirty jokes were made about extending the “p.”
So Public Interactive, our provider of hosting and general solutions, informed us a week ago that we would be in iTunes’ new podcasting directory. This is of course exciting news, and we downloaded the new version of iTunes with podcasting support and got all excited about seeing ourselves listed, and then we found ourselves.
We had been listed next to the “Open Source Sex” podcast and kind of a neat computer trick that took the text from our RSS feed and generated a computer voice, reading it out loud. Neat, and flattering that someone would take the time to do this, and whoever did it should get in touch with us, but ultimately not great radio. But there we are, and now with a logo.
So go. Right now. Download the newest version of iTunes and subscribe to Open Source’s podcast. So you don’t accidentally get the sexcast, make sure, when you click “subscribe,” that you’re looking at the green-and-brown logo with Chris’s name on it. Please do this. One, because it’s handy and cool. Two, because we think we can get in the top 100 podcasts, and then things’ll really get hot. Don’t ask me what this means. Just do please.
I haven’t been happy with the itunes podcast service. It seems slow, and I think that it overwrites the previous program. For my BBC Radio 4 favorites –In Our Time, In Business and an interview from the Today Programme–I find that ipodder, and the BBC’s own site feed works so much better.
Done! But now you owe me a favor: get the darn Emerson show UP THERE! I had to leave the radio halfway through the broadcast, and I’ve been jones-in ever since.
BTW, I know Potter’s craving the Juan Cole show too.
Ok, so it’s not as great as human radio, but listening to RSS feeds in my car or while doing dishes keeps me happy for hours on end. I also do Doc Searls, Joho the Blog, and the BBC World News (by permission). Sorry for the name collision on iTunes. I have taken to titling my feeds “Rebotocast reads …”.
Anyway, I love that Creative Commons license. I’m always on the lookout for new material. It gets a little confusing when the blog has an associated podcast, though .