Podcasting

Friday, 16 Sep 2005 | Blogging

Since Monday I’ve been using an iPod, which my brother was kind enough to lend to me for a couple of weeks. From the looks of it, I will be getting an iPod nano before I move. One of the things that has been intriguing is how cool I feel podcasts are.

Do you ever sit down to watch the news or listen to a particular radioshow anymore? I don’t. Mostly because I want to see or hear it when convenient for me, not when the broadcaster decides. And for me, the most convenient time is when I’m en route. Podcasting is the perfect answer for me. Basically, I subscribe to a show and each new episode of this show is then downloaded automatically. Whenever I connect the iPod to my computer, it puts all the downloaded content on the iPod so they are ready for me when I head out. But you don’t need an iPod, you could just as easily listen to it on the computer.

Among others, I’ve subscribed and have been listening to what is probably the most popular podcast - The Daily Sourcecode by Adam Curry. It’s sort of a mix between a radioshow and a blog, since he does talk about his life a lot. So what is the relevance of this for sixtysix you ask? Well, it gave me an interesting idea - why not podcast once I’ve moved to Asia? I would host my own ‘radioshow’ from Bangkok and readers of this blog could also listen to me rambling about my experiences over there. It’s probably less work than writing a journal, since there is no time to carefully phrase articles.

On the other hand, I think less people would listen to podcasts than would read my blog. So maybe I’m just being stupid. Regardless, it’s an interesting concept.