PodCast
July 06, 2005
Sorry for the dearth of posts. I do actually have several items I wanted to post about including one of the best movies of all time: Batman Begins, but I've been busy working on our podcast. In fact Here's a link to it (I hope.):
What is a podcast? Basically a way of using your computer as a TIVO for Internet content, i.e.you are able to subscribe to Internet broadcasts, and download them to your computer for later viewing or listening. (The term "podcast" comes from Apples I-Pod player which allows you to download mp3 files to your IPod and listen to them on the go, away from your computer. This has mostly been used for music but can be used for audio content of any kind.)
Our podcast allows people, using the appropriate software to subscribe to our :30 Minutes Toward Victory broadcast, (And soon the Spanish :30 Minutos broadcast.) and the software will automatically check for updates to the program and download them to the subscribers computer for later viewing or listening. Here's a couple of links to some software for subscribing to podcasts some of them are free some are low priced shareware. There are also online services like Yahoo which you can use to subscribe to podcasts. Here's some links for Windows users: FeedDemon (Which is free to try out but is shareware.) FeedReader is free and works on Windows 95 on up. For Mac users NetNewsWire works pretty good as just a reader and the LITE version is free though you have to scroll down on the page to find it.
But that's not the cool part. The cool part is that Apples I-Tunes Music Store is now set up to allow users to subscribe for free to podcasts and Apple is also allowing people to submit their podcasts for inclusion in the I-Tunes Music store. This is very big. (You can download the free I-Tunes Music Store software for Mac and Windows for free here.) But that's still not the cool part. The cool part is that we submitted our podcast of :30 Minutes Toward Victory and we were included and here's what the top of the Itunes Music Store index of Christian podcasts looks like:
Yes, that's our program, :30 Minutes Toward Victory, first on the list.
Kewl!