Building Personal Podcast Channels
Posted on March 20, 2005
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Scoble points to a post from Jeff Sandquist:
I want to create a link blog that only contains individual podcasts that I find interesting. Subscribing to the RSS feed for this podcast link blog wouldn’t return every Daily Source Code or Morning Coffee notes, just the individual shows I’ve found interesting. (Along with appropriate meta data to the creater,etc)
I have also been thinking about this recently and so added an optional “media file URL” field to the posting interface at Linkroll. Users can fill in this field with a link to the media file in question and the link will appear in the Linkroll RSS 2.0 feeds as an enclosure.
This means that anyone can create their own RSS 2.0 podcasting “channel” which contains only the particular podcasts they’re interested in. In this way you don’t have to subscribe to every podcast in a particular feed but can just choose which ones will be downloaded and fed into your audio player.
Users can also use Linkroll to create group podcast channels just by using a particular tag.
The feature is in ‘beta’ now, but seems to function pretty well so far.
Love to know what you think.
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