
I have say podcasting is rather cool, there is some really interesting content out there. Podcasts are like an audio magazine subscription that automatically updates with the current issue as they are released.
Also, on the topic of serious coolness Motorola is developing an iTunes phone—that’s right folks, an iPod and a cell phone in one device. Bloody brilliant if you ask me
Podcasting
A regular downloadable radio show to which listeners subscribe using software such as iPodder. Podcasts enable subscribers to receive shows as feeds (in the RSS format). Software such as iPodder can be set up to send these shows directly on to subscribers’ MP3 players. Podcasts can also be heard using your computer’s media player, so they’re not exclusively designed for portable devices.
The term podcasting was invented by Dannie J. Gregoire, who registered the domain name podcasting.net, discovered and reported on by Dave Slusher of the Evil Genius Chronicles and made popular by former MTV VJ and Dutch weblogger Adam Curry’s original ipodder script.
A RSS pioneer Dave Winer describes succinctly the technology used to pull digital audio (e.g., especially MP3) files from websites down to computers and devices where the audio can be played back at a listener’s convenience. The recovery of MP3 links from distributed weblogs and distribution of the aggregated list using RSS had been demonstrated by Stephen Downes’s Ed Radio, launched June 9, 2004. Podcasting was developed, according to Curry in August, 2004.![]()
Motorola iTunes Phones
The phone syncs with a computer and the iTunes Music Store like an iPod does, and incorporates an iPod-like interface for navigating and playing digital music, said Ron Garriques, a Motorola executive vice president.

But a Motorola representative clarified on Friday that the phone shown during the keynote was not the actual iTunes phone that is slated for release this year. Instead, it was a Motorola E398 equipped with the iTunes functionality for the demonstration.
The upcoming phone is the first of many Motorola devices that will support iTunes this year, said Garriques, also president of Motorola’s personal devices business. He didn’t provide product details for the phone or say when it would be available.
Still, the demo at CES bolsters rumors that an iTunes-compatible Motorola phone would be launched this month, possibly at the Macworld Conference & Expo that opens next week in San Francisco. Last month, an Apple executive revealed that the phone was due in the first half of 2005.![]()