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Podcasting from Space
An anonymous reader writes "Podcasting has officially made it into orbit! According to a Geekzone article, Mission Specialist Steve Robinson delivered a short monologue off the southeast tip of Indonesia in which he described the morale of the Discovery crew at the end of their well-publicized mission: 'It's been a fantastic mission up here, absolutely amazing. Some of the hardest work that any of us have ever done. We haven't had a whole lot of sleep, and we've been extremely busy and really happy.' A transcript of the podcast as well as the MP3 itself can be found at Nasa's site."
isn't the main thing about podcasting that it is a subscription based service and not just an mp3?
this looks just like a downloadable mp3 that has had the name podcast attached to it because well because podcasting is the meme of the month
Which would make this not a podcast. It would make it an "audio recording".
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Podcasting (also known as blogcasting) is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s)....
The word "podcasting" is a portmanteau that combines the words "broadcasting" and "iPod." The term can be misleading since neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or any portable music player.
So you're right, the astronaut merely recorded a message, which NASA published as an mp3 file, consequently making all the IPod-toting blog kiddies go hyper.
I could similarly claim Podcasting "officially made it into space" with Neil Armstrong's "One small step for man..." quote, since it's available as an audio file in a variety of places.
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Please, stop calling every kind of audio stream or download that hits the Internet a podcast.
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Technically it's not, but NASA called it a podcast. NASA does supply an RSS feed for podcasting though. Just search "NASA" in the podcasting thingy of iTunes. They're all pretty short, around 5 minutes.
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Actually, NASA published it as a "podcast," even though it doesn't really fall under the "official" definition of one.
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http://www1.nasa.gov/returntoflight/crew/robinson
So the proper steps are:
1. NASA gets MP3.
2. NASA calls it a podcast.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
There already is and its called a "Blogcast". Truth is once a term is in general usage its hard to actually replace it with the proper term. Take a Hoover for example or how some people say they will Google for it. Also, I should note that anything that is easy and quick to say will tend to stick. One of the factors that appears to make something quick and easy to say is the lack of hard consonants.
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Here it is.
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I also listened to the shuttle mission live on my VX2R handheld (about the size of an iPod), courtesy of NA6MF, the NASA Ames amateur radio club retransmitting their internal audio feed on 145.585 MHz.
And just for funsies, I made a sample PodCast RSS of W1AW Morse code practice.
It has nothing to do with the characters. Japanese pronunciation is composed of a relatively small number of sounds that are all essentially the same length. So whereas English can have a word like "shrine" and call it one syllable, in Japanese it would need to be broken down into something like "shu rye nee". Or consider the anime character name "Rei", which is (properly speaking) two sounds.
Actually, I should mention that Japanese does have a system of simple phonetic characters. When those characters are used each sign does indeed correspond to a single "syllable".
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