Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Enter the age of the Podcast and RSS feeds

If you have not heard, podcast is the newest thing. A podcast can be audio, video, or simply text but it is basically a combonation of a newspaper/email/post-it note in an electronic medium. For example, you can check out www.ipodderx.com for software that enables you to read/listen to podcasts and what the software does is check the "feed" for updates. It is very helpful because instead of having to check a web site to see if certain blogs, newspapers headlines, etc. have updates, your RSS feed reader (ipodderx or many others) will check for you every 15 miuntes, or hour, or watever you set it to.

Go to www.google.com and type in "RSS feed reader". I like www.ipodderx.com but there are others to chose from as well. This blog for example has an RSS feed you can subscribe to with an RSS feed reader software and everytime I update this blog, your reader lets you know.