Dan Safkow donates his television, DVD player and assorted radios to Goodwill and relies completely on podcasting and online content for entertainment. Dan’s website can be found at podcastyear.blogger.com.
Category Archives: podcasting
The Year of The Podcast
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Slate.com’s Andy Bowers reflects on where podcasting has gone in 2005 and some predictions on where it might head.
Religion the Fastest Growing Genre in Podcasting?
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According to this article, religion is the fastest growing genre in podcasting.
Apple releases podcast server?
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It looks like Apple has released a podcast server solution for its OSX Server product.
Latest PSP Update includes RSS Support
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Jake applied the latest update to his PSP last night and asked me what "RSS Channels" were, which gave me the opportunity to walk him through subscribing to podcasts. I have to say, I thought this was a pretty cool thing.
Pictured here is a view of his PSP subscribed to podcast.bieberlabs.com, which come to think of it, needs an update itself sometime.
RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
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RIAA Bans Telling Friends About Songs – The Onion – This is pretty funny.
HUAR Web Site Up and Running
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The HUAR command center site is now up and running. HUAR stands for “Humans United Against Robots”. This organization, started by Keith Malley of the Keith and the Girl podcast, “was designed to educate and aware the citizenry of the world the impending attack that computers and robots will put into affect against humans”.
GarageBand Launches Podcasting Tools
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GarageBand Launches Podcasting Tools – GarageBand opens GCast end to end podcasting service. Quote from article: “The firm said it was motivated to create Gcast after a Podcasting feature introduced on the GarageBand site doubled the company’s overall traffic. ”
Podcasting available through TiVo / Sony PSP
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Sony and TiVo support Podcasts – Sony adds support for RSS enclosures to the PSP and TiVo makes podcasts available through its service using feeds from the Yahoo Podcasts directory.
Gizmo – A free phone for your computer
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Tom the Architect led me over to the Gizmo Project. Free Skype-like VoIP services, including free voicemail and phone mail. It also has the ability to record calls for you podcasters out there!
Bieber Labs 