[opendtv] Tivo for your iPod
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 23:44:21 -0500
Tivo for your iPod
A new technology allows listeners to subscribe to homemade radio
shows and listen to them on their digital music players
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Brian Braiker
Newsweek
Updated: 6:24 p.m. ET Dec. 2, 2004
See that fellow with the telltale white iPod wires dangling from his
ears? It would be reasonable to assume that he's rocking out to his
favorite tunes on his MP3 player. Reasonable, but quite possibly
wrong. He might be enjoying a recent podcast.
Just when the mainstream media had finally managed to figure out what
blogging was all about, Adam Curry had to go ahead and invent
podcasting. A podcast is a radio show that listeners subscribe to
online. Every time a new program is posted, it automatically feeds
into the subscriber's computer. From there, the listener zaps it onto
a digital music player and hits the road: Think of it as TiVo for
your MP3 player. "There's a lot of great radio out there that I would
love to listen to when I am ready for it," says Curry (yes, that Adam
Curry-MTV's old-school golden-feathered late-'80s veejay). "Anyone
can come and party on my MP3 player."
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6640519/site/newsweek/
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