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Nintendo's First Podcast
celerityfm writes "With the US release of an MP3/multimedia player add-on for the Nintendo DS and Gameboy Advance just around the corner, Nintendo is already busy creating content for it with their first Podcast, produced by podcast pioneer Carl Franklin. Check out the first episode, it's all about Nintendogs." Commentary is available at Press the Buttons. From that post:"From the sound of things, girls love Nintendogs. Dog training tips are exchanged, fans are briefly interviewed, and even a parent weighs in now and then. Ms. McCollom's segment goes in to why girls are apt to love raising portable puppies and just how the Nintendo DS's wireless mode enables gamers to meet new players and their dogs. Teen People even proclaims the experience 'better than Barbie', so if that's not a young girl stamp of approval, I don't know what is. "
Yeah, that sounds better than podcast.
you're right, no reason for this word to exist. I'm sure your mom knows that an "url" and "xml" are.
And now I'm going to watch some picture wave signals on my picture wave signal decoder.
It is one of those words when you first hear it you imagine this immense technology behind it. But no, it is a URL to an audio file, inserted into XML.
Jesus Christ. How many times does this stupid notion have to be corrected on Slashdot, where the readers are SUPPOSED to be just a WEE BIT smarter than the norm? (No, I'm not new here.)
Podcasting is not just "a link to an audio file in some XML". It is the ability for anyone, professional or amateur, to record an audio program in serial fashion, and allow someone to EASILY SUBSCRIBE to receive the latest version of the show in their favorite listening device.
Your description of it is like saying a website is just text that you can download via HTTP. While technically that is true, it is in how it is used that makes it new and unique. I may remind you, "the web" used to be a buzzword, until it became ubiquitous.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.