Ok, I lied. The other day wasn’t my last post about podcasting. I feel I need to clarify a bit - there’s a distinct difference between the ideas of ‘podcasting’ vs. overloading RSS as a delivery mechianism beyond pure text.

Podcasting
As Russell Beattie points out, this is not a new idea. Most of the weblog community was talking about this over two years ago, and his latest post describes some of the problems he faced publishing audio blogs:

Why did I stop audioblogging? Because I couldn’t concentrate on audioblogs while I was sitting at the computer, and I didn’t think that others would be able to listen to my audioblogs either. And the audioblogs didn’t have any way of “permalinking” inside them.

While I think podcasting an interesting medium for personal ‘broadcasting’, I’m really not sure that it’s going to change the way I read news, gather content, etc.

Overloading RSS
I hope I didn’t give the impression with my other posts that I think this is a waste of time - In fact, it couldn’t be more opposite. The ability to aggregate content around in a standard format is extremely powerful. Here’s some examples on how it could plug into Windows Media Center:

• RSSTV. You could subscribe to a buddy’s list of shows he watched or recorded and use that to schedule your own upcoming shows.
  
• Windows Media Center’s “Online Spotlight”. Support for RSS would easily enable the integration of audio, video and pictures into the Media Center shell. Audio streams, video streams (channel 9?), etc would be easy to integrate in.
  
• Weather, TV Listings, Traffic, etc.

Anyways, it will be interesting to see how people go about overloading RSS.