Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for September 18, 2004. In this episode, I talk about the Bittorrent experiment and thank the fine folks who are helping seed these files, I talk about the awesome term “podcasting”, I praise the members of the community springing up around “the iPod … Continue reading Audioblog for Sept 18, 2004
I’ve been noticing something downloading audioblog posts with the user agent of “podcaster”. There is an URL in there that points to podcaster.net but there isn’t anything yet. I wonder what this is? I do like this as a term for what it is when you are creating things to distribute via the iPod platform … Continue reading Podcaster
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