The learninginhand.com blog and podcast, owned and maintained by Tony Vincent, focuses on mobile devices for educators. Tony puts all his podcasts in a Grazr widget. You might want to get a copy, even if you’re not a teacher. There’s some good information in this one.
williamthin’s Grazr blog turned up a set of five fun and spiritual podcast feeds. Here’s one of them.
NYC podcasts were never easier to keep track of, thanks to PodcastNYC.net’s Grazr widget that puts them all neatly in one place.
Kosso just announced in Twitter that Podcast.com now has over 20,000 podcast feeds. At 20-50 podcasts per feed, that would mean an average of 500,000 individual podcasts at one time. Here they are in a nice tidy package for your blog, or to run from your iPhone.
In this continuation of my conversation with Halley Suitt, we discuss the StyleFeeder site that her company just acquired. While she tried to tell me about how shopping can be enhanced through feeds I did my geeky best to shift the discussion back to the issue of aggregators disrupting the economics of shopping.
Halley Suitt, CEO of Top Ten Sources, and I had an interesting conversation about the role aggregators will play in breaking down the idea of a context for information in the future. We agreed that the truly disruptive aspect of feeds is not the publishing of Web content in a feed, but rather the ability of aggregators to mix and match items from multiple feeds. Just as kids today don’t know about the major broadcast TV networks, use of aggregator technology will mean that future generations won’t know or care about the NY Times or the Washington Post. Individual stories will have their own existence independent of the original source. We were so engrossed in this issue that we went way over on time, so I broke this episode into 2 20-minute segments. I’ll have the second part ready in a few days.
For the first Feedonomics podcast I sat down last week with Pito Salas of Blogbridge as he was preparing to launch his new Feed Library product. Pito describes it as an automatic iTunes store for feeds. This product has a lot of potential for making feeds much more accessible to new users, especially in a corporate environment. Another interesting application is educational institutions that want to make feeds available to students. Pito is honest enough to admit that he hasn’t settled on a price yet, so he’s going to make it available as a free trial and see what the market says. We also discussed some issues of OPML files in general, such as whether users will be confused by inclusion of reading lists that change over time.