[WEB4LIB] Re: The Ur-Podcast

[K.G. Schneider]

> How do you define podcast? Do you only include links via enclosures and
> RSS? If so, then Greg is the first.

Yes, in terms of podcasting. 

> Otherwise, I used to have a weekly library news show on public radio
> and made it available for download each week before RSS came along, in
> RealAudio because I didn't have the bandwidth for MP3 at the time. This
> was from 2001-2003.

Clearly you were broadcasting!

> People used to laugh when I told them I had a show about libraries on
> radio ("what could there be to talk about?"), but when I told them that
> it was all about government policy, copyright, access to information
> etc, they all tuned in! And it was in prime time, no less. ;)

Will you be doing it again? Become the world-famous library radio host? It
wouldn't be such odd casting! 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com