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Jul31
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Note: Leesa Barnes takes over this blog while Jon enjoys his nuptials and honeymoon on the West Coast. He returns August 10th. Enjoy Leesa's take on podcasting in the meantime.By way of Podcasting News, I found out about a cool tool developed by ProfCast (go to their page, scroll down and you'll see the tool on the bottom right). You can use ProfCast to update your RSS feed to include the new iTunes categories without having to make these changes manually. It's pretty easy to use. I entered my URL ( I think it wants my feed URL yes, it's the feed URL), plugged in my email (not sure why it wants that, but I did anyways) and clicked Submit. Because I'm using Feedburner to syndicate my podcast, there was no change needed to my feed. However, I'm wondering for those who aren't using Feedburner and if you haven't updated your podcast to the new iTunes categories, can you use this tool and report on it? Post your comments below, please.
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Jul31
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Note: Leesa Barnes takes over this blog while Jon enjoys his nuptials and honeymoon on the West Coast. He returns August 10th. Enjoy Leesa's take on podcasting in the meantime.By way of Kate's blog, I found this. A graphic designer...
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Note: Leesa Barnes takes over this blog while Jon enjoys his nuptials and honeymoon on the West Coast. He returns August 10th. Enjoy Leesa's take on podcasting in the meantime.I just read an enjoyable article written by About.com's Podcasting Guide,...
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Jul30
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If you're in the habit of keeping up with any of my other blogs or my podcast, you're probably at least peripherrally aware that I am getting married on August 5th to the delighful Kelly Penguin Girl. After much preparation,...
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I'm currently on Vancouver Island on a little vacation and getting married. I thought that it would be fun to leave you with some thoughts I have about podcasting. This is one is a series... Listener feedback: Good or Ugly?Most...
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I'm currently on Vancouver Island on a little vacation and getting married. I thought that it would be fun to leave you with some thoughts I have about podcasting. This is one is a series... Shot series of podcasts can...
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Jul29
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I'm currently on Vancouver Island on a little vacation and getting married. I thought that it would be fun to leave you with some thoughts I have about podcasting. This is one is a series... Statistics Are Unimportant Many podcaster...
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A little over a month ago I reported that the Canadian Podcast Listener Sruvey was underway. I received an email last night letting me know that the survey is complete and the numbers had been crunched. This survey consisted of...
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I'm currently on Vancouver Island on a little vacation and getting married. I thought that it would be fun to leave you with some thoughts I have about podcasting. This is one is a series... Cross Pollination is Good This...
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Jul28
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I'm currently on Vancouver Island on a little vacation and getting married. I thought that it would be fun to leave you with some thoughts I have about podcasting. This is one is a series... Corporate? Listener Levels vs Cost....
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I'm currently on Vancouver Island on a little vacation and getting married. I thought that it would be fun to leave you with some thoughts I have about podcasting. This is one is a series... Independent? 500 Listeners IS Good...
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Yes, I'm an alarmist, but I don't think the subject is that far from the truth. In the latter half of 2007, Nielsen Analytics is planning to start testing software applications that will track actual listenership of individual podcasts on...
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My Snake Oil Radar was going off all over the place when I saw this come up in my aggregator. After a myriad of so-called podcast experts claiming to have mastered podcasting's, Holy Grail only to pose another online marketing...
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Jul27
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Digital Rights Management (DRM) is the technology embedded in music files that prevents users from copying and sharing copyrighted music. It's not a very a very popular technology, not because people want to share and copy music, but because it's...
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Scott Fletcher over at PodCheck Review speaks about the Podcast Awards. I have to agree that there are so many podcasts now that it's difficult for any single person to cast any votes. How many of the nominated shows do...
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The Edinburgh Fringe is arguably the largest arts festival in the world. This annual event is held in...well...Edinburgh. Ewan Spence of The Edinburgh Fringe podcast. He notes that last year, the organizers of the event didn't see the need to...
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Just ran across this post on Feed for All by Sharon Housley. Sharon talks about online credibility and while I think she severely overestimates the confidence people have in online sources, there are some good points at the end. Full...
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I was listening to a local radio station the other day and I heard two ads that kind of disturbed me. The ads were voiced by members of the station's crew - a woman named Mel Risden and the traffic...
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Jul26
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Marshall Sponder, KMM's Web Metrics Guru blogger, was recently interviewed in a podcast about Web Analytics and Privacy Filters. While the interview it self is wonderful, the Zoom In Online site is a little wonky. Podshow recently took a beating...
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I was trolling around for a different angle on podcasting today. I have my 50 or so feeds that I read every day, but every now and again I like to branch out and go to different sources to see...
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A common theme across the many podcast articles I read is that advertisers are concerned with listeners fast-forwarding through ads. Initally, I dismissed such concerns because of the way I listen to podcasts.I listen to podcasts as background noise either...
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Jul25
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I'm not sure when this was aired, but me likey! It's also a great little blast of information on which businesses are podcasting and what they're podcasting about. <...
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Speedo is producing a series of bi-weely podcasts featuring the world's top swimmers. The biweekly show includes interviews with the world's top swimmers (Michael Phelps, Amanda Beard, Grant Hackett, Libby Lenton and Leisel Jones, among others), as well as news...
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Blog Talk Radio is bringing podcasters the ability to not only take callers during a show, but to also produce a live stream for listeners.There are a few podcasters that were doing this before it was called podcasting. The most...
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It's always nice to have some company on a mission, and I'm starting to garner a few compatriots. Shel Holtz wrote yesterday about whether a podcast that you can't subscribe to is really a podcast. I've mentioned this many a...
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Jul24
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I had to chuckle when I read Todd's post on Geek News Central. Todd and crew were going through the initial batch of nominations for the People's Choice Podcast Awards and discovered that many podcasters are clearly uncomfortable with RSS...
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Here's the deal. The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society is offering a grant to Women Comics/Podcasters. Interesting, yes. Laudable, yes. Praagmatic, no. The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society (J LHLS) is pleased to offer three grants...
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I ran across an excellent example of how podcasting can be used to the max. Rebecca Lieb at ClickZ has drawn my attention to JapanesePod101. One of the best [language podcasts] is JapanesePod101.com, a daily podcast. The sponsor is a...
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Voice Genesis, a privately backed company, has leapt into the mobilecasting ring by expanding on its existing Vemail product.To date, Vemail has allowed Verizon customers to have email send to their phone to be "read" to them and reciprocate by...
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Jul23
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From Enterprise Web: The lesson for business organizations seems to be that, yes, there is a large potential audience out there wired to an easily-accessible and inexpensive mass distribution platform. But, if you want people to actually listen and watch...
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I'm going to put this under Tech Tips since it involves some pretty decent wizardry. I didn't know this, but apparently the iPod has the ability to record, but Apple has crippled that functionality presumably to make 'opportunities' available to...
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Videocasters rejoice! Google Video has implemented video bookmarking. Yup, you can now create a link to a specific minute and second within a Google video, rather than just the whole video itself. This goes hand in hand with my recent...
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The Podcast Peer Awards have been created from the idea that podcasters know podcasts best: Where can you find the best podcasts in the universe? Right here, at the Podcast Peer Awards. These awards are given by the people who...
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is positioned to hit the 2 million download mark by the end of 2006 according to a recent article on the Syndey Morning Herald. (part of John Fairfax Holdings Limited ASX:FXJ)I've been involved with this crazy...
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Jul22
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Just curious if it's possible. As far as I know, nobody owns it yet and since there's a plethora of articles out on the Internet about why the "pod" part doesn't stand for iPod it seems to me that the...
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I read a pretty good article today over on Baluart. The article deals with a lot of issues and information relating to podcasting, but the part that I found most thought provoking was near the end. For those looking to...
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Blogmatrix is just one of many podcast hosting services out there. In general, there are two types of podcast hosts: those that understand podcasting and those who don't. It's easy to tell the difference - anyone who limits your disk...
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Halfway through 2006 and the podcasting bruhaha for the US Presidential election in 2008 is already starting. There's a good aritcle over on MirrorDot that kind of sums up the history of citizen media usage in US politics. In the...
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Dave Winer recently proposed 'rebooting' the podcast directory world. Like many of us, he noticed that the existing directories have become ad-laden vote-getting slums where a few users rule the roost. Winer proposed a new directory free of advertising and...
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My blog entries here are all out of whack. At 9am, two blog entries not scheduled until tomorrow are already published and I can get them to go away. I guess we're living in the future here - posts from...
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Jul21
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I've been a member of the BluBrry podcast community for a week or so now. I've made a conscious effort to only listen to podcasts on BluBrry rather than Podcast Alley or any of the other directories. There's a pretty...
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I was looking for just such a tool about 6 months ago. I managed to find the excellent podcast hosting solution Loudblog instead, so my quest terminated prematurely. However, for those of you that have a directory full of podcasts...
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I've talked about the online Podcasting Legal Guide before and at the time it looked like a bandwagon effort that would likely run out of steam. Well, I was wrong. It's still here and it looks like it's being updated...
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The 'proper' name for the project is Encyclopodia, but I like my Ipodedia better. Regardless, the encyclopodia project has made the entire Wikipedia community encyclopedia available as an iPod download. Is this really usable? I don't own an iPod, but...
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Podcasting News might not think so, but having podcasts show up in a comic looks like progress to me! Too small? Click here to see it in proper size. Via Podcasting News...
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Jul20
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..are those that just pop up out of nowhere.I imagine that most of you pay attention to the blogosphere and have at least heard of Kyle MacDonald. If you need a prompter, how does the phrase "One Red Paperclip" grab...
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Yup, I said "readers". We're always talking about podcast subscribers and the feed, but let's not forget that there has yet to be a credible study that shows over 50% of any given podcast's listeners even use a podcatcher. Many...
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I don't recommend that anyone run a serious podcast off of any free platform. It's not so much that the free platforms aren't good (although many of them really aren't good), but it's more about perception. It's kind of like...
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Steve Rubel wrote an entry on Tuesday discussing how talent agencies are coming around to realize that there's a large pool of talent on the Internet just waiting to be plucked. Of course, the impetus for Rubel's post was the...
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Jul19
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I don't mind saying "kick ass" in the body of a post, but it seems rude in the subject. I read somewhere in the neighbourhood of 100 podcast-related blog entries, press releases, and hoohaas each day. A large percentage of...
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I stumbled across the World Nomad's language podcasts today, and I'm kind of scratching my head. The premise is simple: each episode uses a standard format to teach a different language. While I agree that podcasting is a great way...
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Company intranets need to add blogging and podcasting or else become irrelevant, according to a new report from Avenue A | Razorfish, an interactive marketing and technology services firm. As my English friends would say, "Bullocks!" "Bollocks!".Like blogging, podcasting is...
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I've been purposely steering away from the technical server-side part of podcasting because this is a business podcasting blog. It occurs to me, however, that one of the ways to curtail costs is to host your own podcast and in...
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The Dallas/Fort Worth airport is set to offer podcasts. Yup, apparently you can get them in iTunes now and they will be available for download right off the DFT website on Friday. Initial podcasts include instructions for entering and exiting...
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Jul18
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I hve exactly zero experience wiith VCs, but I do know that there's (almost) no such thing as free money. The 'venture' part of 'venture capitalist' means that there's some effort to make make money. In general, this money is...
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I threw my top nine podcast interview techniques into the ring a few months ago. Now Donna Papacosta at Trafcom News is throwing her top ten in for consideration.Strangely, I don't find a lot of correlation between our two lists...
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Godcasting isn't all that new, relatively speaking, and neither is The GodCast Network.It's neat to watch an idea grown and hit critical mass and podcasting about religion certainly seems to be doing just that. The Godcast Network seems to have...
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A while ago I was feeling all warm and fuzzy about how quickly the world was adopting podcasting. I was encouraged by the fact that so many non-technical people were podcasting and thinking how great it is that we've moved...
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Many moons ago I signed up for a web service that would take a podcaster's RSS feed and provide a Bit Torrent for the audio files in it. I stopped using it rather quickly because I couldn't get it to...
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Jul17
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LibriVox is a great project that provides free audio books from the public domain.You can participate as a listener, reader, or both. The audiobooks can be downloaded in MP3 and OGG format and then played on any old digital audio...
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There is just no end to the great uses of podcasting. There are some people who have trouble coming up with a topic for their potential podcast, but others just seem to spew great ideas out at will.The particular podcast...
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I stumbled across an entry on the Law Weblog of the Times Online today. The authors wanted to license a 2-second snippet of music for use in a podcast. The quote came out to 4,000GBP. That's almost $10,000 over here...
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As you can likely surmise, propertycasting involves the distribution of podcasts dealing with Real Estate (what's Fake Estate, anyhow?). Propertycasting is a pretty cool idea. I was househunting not all that long ago and iIwill be again in the near...
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Jul16
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Reader Steve B pointed me towards a relatively recent study of Internet media by Arbitron. Here's a link to the PDF file. It's relatively long, but put together in nice little slide bits for easy consumption.The two biggest surprises for...
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I've recently signed up with Todd Cochrane's new podcast directory, BluBrry. Against my own advice, I generally ignore new directories because there are just too darn many of them. While the podcaster in me says "sign up for every one...
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Does anyone know if this happened or not? I don't use Windows all that often and I don't own a Mac so I'm hardly ever in iTunes. This article is from April and it's talking about Apple putting ads in...
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Podcast listeners, podcatchers, and digital audio players all make use of meta data. Meta data is data that defines the data, if you will. Kind of how Robert's Rules of Order defines how a metting is to be held (a...
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Sounds like bad advice, but put into the right context, it works.Mark Orion provides this advice in his article on Ezine (wow, the second Ezine artile I've quoted this week). It's very, very important to note that when Mark talks...
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Jul15
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From the "Look Who's Podcasting Now" category I bring you Popular Mechanics. The inaugural episode features an interview with Popular Mechanics senior technology editor Glenn Derene about up and coming sci-fi technology. From geo-aware gadgets to all-TV-on-demand to cars that...
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China Radio Internation has started offering podcasts of their material. The address http://pod.inetradio.cn is China's first podcast website run by a professional radio station. It now provides services in four languages: Chinese, English, Korean and Japanese. Welcome to the world!...
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It must be "link to Leesa" week here on Biz Podcasting, but this is kind od relevant so I want to jump in. Leesa is running a 31 day "tip of the day" type of series over on Podonomics Explored....
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I recently wrote about Podsat.net which is offering podcasters the ability to get their shows on satellite radio for the low, low fee of $1 per minute. I'm going to get the relationship wrong here, but I think the actual...
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Jul14
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Funny little story... I was reading an article on Podcast Listing Mistakes over on Ezine Articles. I very rarely quote anything in Ezine Articles because to be honest, their articles generally suck. I find them hard to read because they...
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The recent Nielsen stat report and the resulting flashback from the podcasting community has had me thinking about stats lately. Speculations about poor research aside, how is it that Nielsen shows that 18-24 year olds are the largest podcast audience...
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Mission Specialist Steve Robinson is podcasting from space. OK, really, he's just talking into a mic and the guys in mission control are probably doing the rest, but that's nit-picking. You can grab the podcast itself and a transcript (yay...
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The International Herald Tribune has recently launched a 'make your own' podcast service. Users can visit the site, select the stories that they'd like to hear, and download them onto their digital audio player. Now that's good use of the...
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James McGregor has been doing business in China for over a decade and he recently shared some of what he has learned at ad:Tech and is now making it available as a podcast. Foreign companies rightly fear that Chinese partners,...
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Jul13
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Ahhh, Todd Cochrane. Some people love him, some people hate him but one thing we all agree on is that he's impossible to ignore.I'm in the Love 'em camp but I think that's because we share a bit of lifestyle....
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Rob Greenlee postulates that "Most people still equate podcast listening with the iPod" and that "podcasters are also getting very tired of telling people that you do not need an iPod to listen to podcasts."I was a little surprised by...
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