Friday, October 01, 2004 3:42 PM
It's Friday and a good day to check in with emerging ideas that leverage technologies we typically associate with weblogs and their feeds. Adam Curry, a guy who some of you may recall as an MTV VJ from days gone by, has been working with some other developers for a short while now to utilize the same RSS 2.0 headline feed format utilized by some blawggers (but with enclosures) to deliver mp3 format audio for playback on devices like iPod.
He even is posting updates of the progress, both at his own weblog and at iPodder.org. As the site notes, iPodder's target is to "Automagically receive programs and other audio content on your iPod and other mp3 devices." And, from his postings of the last few weeks, it is pretty evident he is already doing just that.
Would you like to receive the days news, legal articles or regulatory updates in audio format? Would you like to listen to these on your car radio during the commute home? Or on your iPod while you workout? Especially, if you could customize the information you receive to filter out topics in which you have little interest?
Extending syndication into multimedia formats certainly makes sense to me. iPodder may just be offering yet another tantalizing glimpse of the ever-changing future of information-sharing.