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September 12th, 2006

When is a podcast not a podcast?

When it’s a walk­ing tour, a music les­son, a ser­ial book.

Over on the Future­lab blog, Karl Long has an inter­est­ing arti­cle on uncom­mon uses of pod­cast­ing which cov­ers these appli­ca­tions and a num­ber of oth­ers. I par­tic­u­larly like Karl’s semi-throwaway sug­ges­tion of an alter­nate com­men­tary for movies – although why stop there, why not re-voice entire movies?

I also recently read of pod­casts being used as pseudo-personal train­ing guides. Handy when you need that lit­tle extra moti­va­tion to keep you on track – just…eight…more…push-ups…