January 05, 2006

Audio Podcast Feed Now Available

I just added a feed for my new audio podcast. You'll see it located toward the bottom of the right-hand column under "RSS Feeds".

RSS feeds make it possible for people to subscribe to all posts included in a blog without having to visit the actual blog everyday. There are a number of software programs - some free - that are called news readers or aggregators that let you subscribe to whichever blogs you wish. Once you install such a software program, you can subscribe to a blog such as Great Dance and automatically receive all of the latest posts within your news reader.

I'll write more about news readers in the near future.

If you'd like to see a list of available news readers, here's a link that lists available applications in the Yahoo directory.

One of the reasons that I created a dedicated news feed for my audio programs is so that people who are interested can have a way to automatically download these audio programs to either their computers or handheld devices.

For example, once I created my podcast newsfeed, I launched Apple's iTunes software, clicked on "Podcasts" and then submitted my podcast newsfeed. My podcast is not listed yet on iTunes but I'm hoping it will be in the next day. Once it's included, then iPod users can download these audio programs to their music players and listen to the commentary and interviews at their convenience. I'll also write more soon about setting-up podcasts and listing them on iTunes.

What's interesting is to go to the Performing Arts section of the available podcasts on iTunes. There are virtually no listings for dance related podcasts. People in the dance world are simply not taking advantage of this free distribution channel to reach larger audiences.

The only dance podcast - actually a dance video podcast - is the Video Sketch Book of the Sys-Org Dance Collective. If you have iTunes installed on your computer, click this link and you'll be taken directly to the podcast for the Video Sketch Book.

To see a large screen shot of what the Video Sketch Book podcasts look like on iTunes, click on the following image and a larger image will open up in a new browser window.

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