[access-uk] Re: Jeff Bishop and iPodder
- From: "Adrian Higginbotham" <adrian.higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 15:21:12 +0100
All very simple really steve - instead of going off checking every
website in your favourites list every day to see if any of them have
been updated you can have the sites tell you when there is something new
to read. Unfortunately it's dependant on the website authors
implementing the service which does this - something called rss
technology - but when they do you can use their update - or rss feed,
which looks like a webaddress and usually ends in .xml or .atom and
paste it in to an rss reader like accessible rss from www.webbie.org.uk
Podcasting is this technology taken one step further and people
publishing audio files to their sites which are then collected
audomaticly by the rss readers of everyone who is subscribed to their
feed.
Gets a littlemore complicated as you have to use a different type of
reader to collect text and audio feeds but that's essentially it. To
collect audio feeds use ipodder or accessible podcatcher from the same
url as accessible rss reader.
The pod part of the name stems purely from the fact that the whole thing
emerged from people listening to the audio on I-pods but infact you can
listen via any media player that support the format you are collecting -
usually winamp on the pc or the portable mp3 player of your choice.
Adrian Higginbotham
Accessibility and inclusion adviser
British Educational Communications and Technology Agency - BECTA
Tel: Direct dial 024 7679 7333 - Internal extension #2287
Email: Adrian.Higginbotham@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.becta.org.uk/
BECTA, Millburn Hill Road, Science Park, Coventry, CV4 7JJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Bingham [mailto:steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 September 2005 13:23
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Jeff Bishop and iPodder
Please excuse my ignorance but could someone take the time to tell me
something about podcasts and ipod. They are terms that have suddenly
come into my realm without explanation.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darran Ross" <darran.ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-UK" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 6:12 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Jeff Bishop and iPodder
> Sorry to all, my last message may well have meant nothing to many! So
I've
> tried to do it right this time.
>
> This is a classic example of what was being talked about earlier in
the
> week. A subject morphing into something completely different!
>
> Now anyone not at all interested in my problems in folder
manipulation,
> not
> likely I know, have missed out on a new resource for info.
>
> I'm not having a go at Carol and Mark. Just making the point about how
> this
> kind of thing happens.
>
>
> Darran
>
>
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