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I just walked away from the Apple booth and guess what? As I suspected, they unveiled iTunes 4.9 today complete with full podcasting support! After checking it out briefly, I raced out to the hall to find a wifi spot with an outlet and am downloading it right now. This really is huge. This provide a mainstream way for people to subscribe to podcasts. No more shareware software, no more futzing with RSS feeds, the entire thing can be done from within iTunes which has definitely been accepted as possibly the most popular way to organize digital music. This makes podcasting accessible to the ‘normal’ person off the street. They can hop in iTunes, browse through the directory, and simply click on subscribe. It’s big. VERY big. I am absolutely ecstatic.

Now comes the fun part of course. I have to submit my podcast to iTunes and figure out what formats they use for their information. I’ll probably have to quit using dircaster because it’s terrible for handling tags. I need to figure out how to get a logo associated with the feed and create something to stick there.

Heh, perhaps my next podcast should be, “How to take care of all the little things when submitting your podcast to iTunes.”

This year, there is one podcasting session conducted by Dave Warlick. The main reason is that the deadline for new workshops is in October, WAY before podcasting was even a whisper of a buzzword in education. Someone canceled their session and he was on the wait list so he change dhis proposal to podcasting.

Next year, I would be surprised if we have less than five podcasting sessions. If ‘Blog’ was the word of the year for 2004, ‘Podcast’ could very well be the word of the year for 2005.

Well, it’s done downloading. Time to get to work! Don’t forget, if you’re at NECC feel free to look me up. Email links are on the blog, or you can iChat me at sdembo@mac.com

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