ckut now podcasts
“CKUT now has podcasts.
click on the little red icon on the programming grid.”
- from Marc Heckmann (top techie at ckut)
I asked them for this a while ago. very nice.
I’ll be listening more frequently - especially to the xx files.
“CKUT now has podcasts.
click on the little red icon on the programming grid.”
- from Marc Heckmann (top techie at ckut)
I asked them for this a while ago. very nice.
I’ll be listening more frequently - especially to the xx files.
October 20th, 2005 at 4:36 pm
i can see the future…!!
October 20th, 2005 at 6:42 pm
it’s actually not a Podcast. It’s an archive - or radio on demand if you wish, and this feature has been on their website for over a year. They just dressed it up nicer. But everyone’s gotta use that buzzword for some reason.
October 20th, 2005 at 7:21 pm
actually I think it is a podcast. click on the red thing and there’s an rss feed. unless your saying this doesnt work.
http://secure.ckut.ca/cgi-bin/ckut-grid.pl?action=showpodcast&show=tuesday,07:00
October 21st, 2005 at 12:55 am
Actually, that rss feed simply links to an audio format archive. It’s simply a Linux box that encodes the radio station’s audio signal. Said signal is then cut up into practical 1 hour day/time files. That’s what you are downloading - the audio archives of an FM station. I simply don’t think “form” should define the “content”.
October 21st, 2005 at 10:21 am
can I call you [insert] for short?
I think you’re raising a good point - that podcasting has a cultural connotation for it that doesn’t apply here.
But I think you’re wrong. It still fits in the definition of “podcasting”. It’s just not DIY/indie/peer-publishing.
Which makes me think again that we need more and better names to describe what’s going on.
(sitting back for the peanut gallery to make their statement about how “names are bad!”)
October 21st, 2005 at 1:03 pm
humm, how about radiocasting?
I don’t think a podcast is defined by a “DIY/indie” label. iTunes, bandeapart.fm and others have professionnaly produced podcasts.
But they all have one element in common : they have the same context - podcasting.
CKUT’s context is a produced radio broadcast that has been encode and made user friendly.
Interesting debate.
October 21st, 2005 at 1:09 pm
[icn] - I’m not trying to be difficult, but i have no idea what you mean when you say:
“But they all have one element in common : they have the same context - podcasting.”
That doesn’t explain to me what you think the crucial element of podcasting is -if it’s not the diy thing. Is ckut not a podcast because its somehow a radio segment *first* and only a podcast secondarily? Why would that make a difference? What’s the “context” you’re referring to? I’m missing your point here. Please explain. I’m curious.
October 28th, 2005 at 7:51 pm
i suspect the difference [icn] may be pointing at is that content is generally produced for the podcast, not produced for radio first, then directed towards an RSS feed.