Textcasting : podcast for text
Wow, the other day I just posted on an idea like podcasting but for text, and now it’s a reality, it’s called textcasting.
Basically, you download an RSS feed to your iPod (or whatever), but instead of listening you read.
This is cheaper than using an online mobile feed reader, just dump into your device daily so you can read it offline.
So who is going to be the first textcast hosting service, eg. Talkr…there’s money to be made here, loads of it.
Now we’ll start see blogs with textcast feeds where the posts are the latest chapter in a daily book (I remember seeing a blog once where the blog posts were chapters in a book)…just download to your device every morning and read the latest chapter on the train.
I’d love to read an offline electronic version of the latest feed content on the train (save printing), but then I need to synch it…is there such a thing as a downloadable RSS Reader for your mobile.
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Textcasting - iPod hack or new name for RSS?
Textcasting is the latest member of the ‘casting family. Slate has announced they are now providing textcast audio files with embedded text. I’m trying this tomorrow morning on my iPod Nano, not sure if it’ll display on such a little
Trackback by scientaestubique — May 30, 2006 @ 4:15 pm
Textcasting - iPod hack or new name for RSS?
Textcasting is the latest member of the ‘casting family. Slate has announced they are now providing textcast audio files with embedded text.
I’m trying this tomorrow morning on my iPod Nano, not sure if it’ll display on such a little …
Trackback by knowledge is everywhere — March 4, 2007 @ 3:50 am