21. Podcasts

I've experimented once before with podcasts, downloading some from the BBC website. It was pretty good (I often slumber with the BBC world in the background, catching bits of interesting discussions but wishing I to revisit later), but at the time I was on dialup, and mp3 player would not stop in the middle of a track (it was bought in 1999, lost in late 2006, and still mourned).

One thing I'm going to work on is organising my home pc better, so I can get a podcast every hour or so with the latest news bulletin from bbc (or some simlar celubrious institution) to play in the background as I work. This should be very doable, especially with an broadband connection (when I first got it I was streaming music whenever I was on the computer. Then I got my first bill. It wasn't pretty).

Finding podcasts wasn't too difficult; one issue was that some sites seem to view all their segments of video or audio as podcasts, while others seem to only use it as segments pushed out through rss feeds. Still, all very interesting, and one of the things I'll be experimenting with further.