Monday, June 29, 2009

Collaborative podcasting

Several years back, I had what seemed to me a good idea for a fun hack: fill my iPod. Here's how it works: you find an MP3 file, you tag it at del.icio.us with the tag "ricksipod". I used the feed from del.icio.us for that tag as the source feed for a new feed in FeedBurner, and applied FeedBurner's "SmartCast" service to turn that feed into a podcast feed (by linking to the mp3 files as enclosures).

Since I just bought an iPhone, I'm using iTunes more often now (my iPod sat, unused, in my briefcase for quite some time). Subscribe to the resulting feed in iTunes, and voila! Now any MP3 file you guys tag gets routed to my iPhone.

I'll report back with any particularly good finds you guys steer my way.

Update: In the comments, Eric points out that I'm standing on the shoulders of a few giants (namely, Eric, Fred and David Hornik) by re-purposing this. I'd completely forgotten the origin of this idea - and enjoyed re-reading the original post that planted the seed for me. I also like the more modern implementation - Sam's idea to redo this as a Twitter-powered podcast. Neat!
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8 comments:

  1. Sam WhitedJune 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM

    Great idea! I may have to try something similar using Twitter.

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  2. Eric LuntJune 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM

    Remember the variation on this theme: the podcast elevator pitch?

    http://ventureblog.com/articles/2005/06/the_podcast_ele.php

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  3. Rick KlauJune 29, 2009 at 4:25 PM

    @Eric - completely forgot that. Thanks for the reminder - it figures that my "idea" was actually someone else's. :)

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  4. Eric LuntJune 29, 2009 at 4:44 PM

    I actually don't remember which came first. You're always an original in my book, Rick.

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  5. Sam WhitedJune 30, 2009 at 6:16 PM

    I've done it on Twitter btw and will shortly turn it into a webservice most likely (which will just spit out a feed url for your username which you can feedburner-ize). Instructions will be up shortly on my blog

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  6. Sam WhitedJune 30, 2009 at 6:32 PM

    And it's up if anyone's interested: http://blog.samwhited.com/2009/06/collaborative-podcasting-with-twitter.html

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  7. viinceJuly 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    wow that's a cool idea!!

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  8. AnonymousMarch 31, 2010 at 5:21 PM

    Great idea! Trying using an ipod application that enable files from ipod transfer to computer. It is really amazing. Thanks for the post!

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