tuning in to podcasting

Something else I have just caught up with is podcasting. For those of you who haven't heard the term, imagine a blog or article that you can download to your mp3 player and listen to on the train.

I finally got around to hooking my mobile phone to my PC (for mp3 transferring)* to listen to an interview with Alistair Cockburn about agile development. The interview was recommended by Lars Pind—a friend and podcast-listener—in his blog.

Now I'm hooked. I don't actually use any special software, I just download an audio file from IT conversations.com onto my phone each morning. The amp in my LG U8120 is not really loud enough to compete with the train noise, so I sometimes go for a walk at lunch and listen.

Listening to a daily audio program is really a great way to get a richness of information in your favourite areas. It's kindof like listening to NPR's All Things Considered, but always about topics you are actually interested in ;)

The podcasting software takes it a step further, and chooses your audio files from your selected RSS streams and sticks them straight onto your iPod or other mp3 device. No rocket science here, but then bloggin software wasn't rocj]ket science and look what that did.

Of course it's hard enough getting files onto my LG phone at all (over USB via Windows XP running in an emulator on my Linux workstation) without the fancy stuff...

I hope and/or suspect to see a podcasting channel from the boys at Tram Town one day :)