Where’s My Pod?

A study done by Bridge Data suggests what many of us already suspected: Podcasting is popular, but it has little to do with the "pods," that is, the iPods and other portable players for which "Podcasting" was supposedly born. The study concluded that 80 percent of podcasts are either listened to and/or watched on a PC, or simply deleted.

Podcasts don’t cast into the Pod

Interesting article raises a good question: what is a podcast? and why is it a podcast?  Results of the CALI mid-semester podcasting survey of Classcaster users turned up much the same with 3/4 of students listening to podcasts of course materials on their PCs and not on portable MP3 devices.   So everyone buys into the Apple marketing of iPods everywhere, but in reality it’s jsut regular old computer users listening while they work or surf. 

 

 

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If You’re Wondering Why Feeds Seem Chaotic…

Behold! This list is pretty much all the ways you can read MAKE via RSS, OPML/reading lists, favorites – if you’re into making things as much as we are – this will keep you up on the latest in the world of Makers.

MAKE: Blog: MAKE XML, RSS, OPML, reading lists and more…

Take a look at the page, it’s just amazing.  And it highlights a serious issue with RSS, Atom, OPML, and feeds generally: a startling lack of standards.  This just one big list of stuff with a variety of icons and links, no explanation as to what any of it means.  Not very useful and not very helpful.  Try this: one feed, say RSS 2.0, let users decide where and how to subscribe to it.

 

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