I just finished listening to  Bloggercon III Podcasting session posted to IT Conversations.

There is a lot of things going on in my mind after listening to this twice – twice because of using the Muvo and my iPAQ while trying to drive, and do fast forwards was extremely hazardous to my health.  It was just better to listen again then be distracted while commuting to/from work.

One thing that has begun to resonate with me even before listening was that my audio.xml file is "my station" and one of the shows that I produce, edit, and author is "Tech Rag Tear Outs" that includes content that probably should be considered it’s own show on "my station":

• Technical Items
• Podcasting Thoughts
• Music
• Personal Insights (Faith, Family, Politics, etc.)

Since I don’t want to waste anyone’s time, I think that posting timecodes is one solution.  But there is also the option of just breaking out all the pieces that "my station" offers into individual productions, and subscribers can sort it out on their end to what one wants to consume.  This also shortens the production cycle on my end for what I consider my bread and butter – insight on technical items.  But it still means that bandwidth and storage will be used that may not be as efficient as possible.

Getting a handle on the structure of the METADATA needed for fast, effective, and useful podcasting is really a driver for this.  Key for me is to be able to offer one audio.xml file that users can pick and choose from all the content categories I am offering before downloading. 

To do this second idea, I think the client applications need to change along with the posted xml or I need to have seperate xmi files for each show?

I have a new edition of a Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) podcast done. Here is the manual link: Download TRTO_009_11-09-2004.mp3 (8517.5K)".

I look at articles of interest in the Primary Content portion from Communications of the ACM and Forbes.

• (00:00-00:52 ): Show Theme + Target Audience
• (00:53-01:09 ): Sample  #1 from DJ Amber
• (01:10-02:18 ): Introduction (9th Podcast; Show Overview; Samuel Adams Holiday
  Porter)
• (02:19-15:45): Primary Content
• (15:45-20:34): Boomtown
  Rats "A Hold Of Me" from the Album "In The Long Grass" [1984]
• (20:34-23:42): Podcast Commentary (Trade Secrets – Frontier Kernel, Userland Radio; iPAQ recording of: RSA Conference & Forrester Research)

The details of the primary content includes:

• www.acm.org (no email addresses in
  HTML below, if you want an email address let me know via email or post a comment
  with your content info):
  • "What Americans Like About Being Online" by Thomas F. Stafford & Dennis
    Gonier
    • Key areas: Searching, Information, Communication, Socialization, &
      Shopping
  • "The One-Minute Risk Assessment Tool" by Amrit Tiwana and Mark Keil
  • "Network Laws" by Peter
    J. Denning
    • "… well-connected nodes tend to attract more connections than poorly
      connected nodes"
  • "Adopting Ontology to Facility Knowledge Sharing" by Edgington, Choi,
    Henson, Raghu, & Vinze
    • Nice Figure 2: Knowledge Lens Concept (url?)
  • "Visualization Strategies and Tools for Enhancing Customer Relationship
    Management" by Ganapathy, Ranganathan, and Sankaranarayanan
    • Search Query
      Weighted Information Display (SQWID)
    • visIT
    • Girafa
    • Flamenco (url?)
    • Kartoo
    • NIST
      Information Visualization Engine (NIRVE)
  • TechSmith MORAE (Record, Log,
    Analyze, & Share Human Computer Interaction)
• www.forbes.com:
  • Ultimate Ears UE5c ($550) are
    custom fitted ear buds for "aspiring audiophiles"
  • Honda new airplane engine and HondaJet body

I just listened on my Tuesday lunch run to MWGBlog update and there was good information about: new header graphic, BloggerCon, Podcasting 101 (coming to Southern California Mac Conference), and the Cinephile Series.

It is only 7 minutes long … highly recommended.