If I had found a podcast that I thought would be interesting, I might have delayed signing on to Audible.com. I looked. From today's San Jose Mercury News:
``You don't have to go hunting for news -- the news finds you,'' said Dave Winer, the inventor of RSS and creator of one of the earliest blogs, the Scripting News.Podcasting works in the same way. Subscribe to specific Podcasts, and the software finds the latest feeds and transfers the audio files automatically to iTunes, Apple's digital media jukebox. When an iPod is plugged into your computer, it downloads the podcasts. The software also works with other music management programs and digital music players.
I've yet to figure out how to have the news find me. But then, I'm not as technologically agile as I once was. To date I've listened to one of Dave's podcasts; I would gladly listen to more. As I figure it out I'll let you know how it goes.
Here's where to start looking: iPodder, Podcaster.org and Podcast.net (the top in Google's search results but the site is down right now).
Oh, and the BBC is experimenting with podcasts.
