[Dialogue] Podcasting

[george]

Technology is wonderful.  You can set up the RSS feature on the Safari 
browser on the Mac to bring you news from all the newspapers and 
agencies from around the world and be there when you turn your computer 
on in the morning.  I'm sure there is the same set up on Intel 
machines.  It makes it almost a scan of pressure points, seeing what 
leads in Latin America as opposed to Asia or Africa.  Wiegel should 
have a hayday plotting pressure points.  I have often wondered what Joe 
would have done if we all had had laptops.  It certainly has made 
consults in villages a lot easier.  You could throw a document together 
the day after and have it printed and back to the village in a day for 
corrections by the people, and in another day a finished product with 
proposals being emailed to governments and foundations.  While all this 
is wonderful.  Now how do we put it to use.  Our email list has helped 
us keep up with diverse interests, our health, deaths and to some 
degree what some of us are thinking.  We are all a bunch of doers that 
drill down wherever we are. We can publish books with editors scattered 
across the world and we can alert each other.  What else?  How can we 
forward our mission?

Jack and Judy G. have promoted some successful gatherings that has 
energized us and we've had International gatherings that have reached 
way out beyond our borders.  Epps had a weekend get together that 
resulted in Bending History and I'm sure that I've not even scratched 
the surface.  Cock has been pouring out stuff as has Stanfield and the 
Canadian Creatives. This bunch is so creative, I'd like to know our 
edges and what are the directions and musings as well as tactics.  
Wanda and I are talking about how we can network the creatives in our 
area as best we can.  We're finding a lot of them are so creative they 
don't connect, sound familiar?

All the best

George Holcombe
14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
Austin TX 78728
512/252-2756
512/294-5952

On Aug 23, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Karl Hess wrote:

> George,
>
> I'm sure that someone out there is more knowledgeable than I, but
> I've found it extremely simple.  Go to
> http://www.apple.com/podcasting/.  You can download iTunes for
> Windows or Apple.  Instructions on that page tell you how to
> subscribe through iTunes to podcasts.  You can listen to them on your
> computer but the wonderful part is you can download them to an mp3
> player and listen to them anywhere, anytime. There are other ways to
> do it, but it is against my religion to do things the hard way.
> [The downside of going to the apple web site is you might get seduced
> by the ease of using their products, and the freedom from spyware and
> viruses. Don't say you weren't warned.]
>
> I don't know of any listing of alternative news podcasts.  On the
> Media from WYNC is very good.  Now I don't have to schedule my
> workouts at 4 on Saturdays any more, which is when they are broadcast
> in Cleveland.  The Cleveland City Club started podcasting about 6 wks
> ago and has some excellent speakers, www.cityclub.org.
>
> And I owe thanks to someone on this list for telling me about
> alternet RSS feeds.   Thanks whoever you are.
>
> Karl
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