#21 podcasting

I've been aware of podcasting for awhile since some of the online journals I frequent have their own feeds, but I've never been all that excited to listen to them. I don't listen to the radio all that much and when I'm in my car or relaxing at home I'll put on cd's or records so that I can listen to music that I actually want to hear. But in the spirit of trying something new I went ahead and subscribed to NPR's story of the day podcast and added the RSS feed to my bloglines account.

more rss

So I went exploring for more rss and added a few more feeds to my bloglines account. Out of the search tools recommended to start our search I found Feedster and Technorati came back with the most hits, some success with Topix, but I really didn't really like using Syndic8.com since my few searches came up completely empty, but maybe I was doing something wrong - I found it to not be as user friendly.

rss

I was part of the majority that had never heard of RSS, but after learning how to use it I think that it is a really handy tool. Instead of clicking on several different sites or searching you can have all the information you are looking for in one place. Some of the sites that I read regularly aren't set up for rss feeds yet so I guess they will have to wait, but the only other complaint I could think of is that there are no pictures. Sometimes a snappy graphic will catch my attention more than a headline and I'll read that story because of that. I suppose I really am a more visual person.
I only signed up for a few, but my rss stuff is here.