A Podcast Channel on the Cheap

Posted by Michael Rees on March 13, 2010

0 comments | 2990 reads

For several years I have used Delicious a lot for social bookmarks, usually every day. For a long time I used Delicious as my home page, but have now reverted to Google ig with an embedded Delicious widget. I thought I knew Delicious well but today I discovered additional capability that seems to have crept up on me.

Apparently since 2005 links to special file types like audio, video and images have had special system tags added, for example system:media:audio for mp3 and Wav files and system:filetype:mp3 for just mp3 files. So all my own links to mp3 files would be http://delicious.com/mrees/system:filetype:mp3. Using additional tags in the usual way I can segregate these mp3 file links into categories. So if I tagged certain of my mp3 files with the podcast tag then http://delicious.com/mrees/system:filetype:mp3+podcast would show only my podcast links. Magically Delicious also creates not just the usual RSS feed in this case but enhances the RSS to the format needed for podcasts. Thus for me, http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/mrees/system:filetype%mp3+podcast?count=15 can be fed into iTunes or any other podcast player software. I now have a podcast channel on the cheap. Neat! Note however, there is little or no control over episode descriptions and show notes. Still all you have to do is upload your mp3 online (I use the free archive.org repository) and store the mp3 file link with appropriate tag in Delicious. Too easy.

Of course I could occasionally look up the Delicious Help pages and click on What’s New. Then I would find another of my personal Delicious discoveries today – inline audio and video. In any list special icons are attached to links pointing to media files that allow a suitable player to appear inline within the list – really useful.

It is really great to see the features of Delicious continuing to expand in useful ways, just when I thought it had calcified.

PS For teachers, use the system:filetype:pdf tag to create a ‘podcast’ for use in iTunes and iTunesU.

Republished with author's permission from original post by Michael Rees.

Michael Rees

I am an IT academic interested in Web 2.0 application development and use, social media tools for organisations and individuals, virtualisation and cloud computing applications.

About Michael Rees |
Connect:

Categories:

Social Business

2990 reads
Print
Email

0 comments »

Post new comment

Your name: *

E-mail: *

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.

Homepage:

Subject:

Comment: *

Input format

Filtered HTML

Allowed HTML tags: <a> <img> <hr> <table> <tr> <td> <th><ul> <ol> <li> </li><blockquote> <colspan> <rowspan>
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Images can be added to this post.

Post

Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
Images can be added to this post.

More information about formatting options

Notify me when new comments are posted

All comments

Replies to my comment

CAPTCHA

No spam permitted! Moderator reviews ALL content before publication to ensure compliance with the CustomerThink terms of use.

To block automated spam submissions, please answer this question.

What code is in the image?: *

Enter the characters shown in the image.

MarketPlace

Drive customer loyalty, empower support teams, and reduce costs. Get social.

[Feb 22] Guest speakers from Forrester Research, Allscripts, and CustomerThink will discuss market trends and research on social customer service strategies, as well as proven tactics from the trenches. Join the live webcast on Feb 22 at 10am Pacific (1pm EST).

Global Customer Experience Management (CEM) Certification Program

[March 13-14, Paris] An internationally recognized program with proven track record of success - being run for 33 times in 13 cities with attendees from 50 countries, the program is developed based on the U.S. patent-pending Branded CEM Method which aims to drive customer loyalty and brand differentiation with quantifiable business results. Limited offer: USD300 early bird discount.

10 Steps to a Single Customer View

Linking customer data across department databases and business units improves business intelligence, customer profiling, and customer management. This paper outlines 10 steps to improve the quality of customer contact data, including physical mail, email, and telephone information.