GTPodcast?

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Hi

I recently set up a podcast style online radio station with one of the forums i use, and it just struck me - why not a gtp podcast? It would be really good in my opinion, but do you think it is viable? I know i'd subscribe if there was one!
So members of gtp, would you like one? And does anybody who is up for it think it is viable? And of course, what do you think of it Jordan?



I think this could go somewhere personally!
 
ExigeExcel
What is it?

Also the GTP insider was great, but sadly didn't last too long.
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Well,

Podcasting is a method of publishing files via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed to receive new files automatically. It became popular in late 2004, largely for downloading audio files onto a portable audio player or personal computer.

The word podcasting is a portmanteau, combining the words broadcasting and iPod. The term can be misleading since neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or a portable music player. As podcasting's popularity grew in the summer of 2005, online writers, including Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble, suggested reinterpreting the letters POD as a backronym for "Personal-on-Demand" instead of a reference to a specific music player.[1]

Podcasting is distinct from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model, which uses the RSS 2.0 XML (or RDF XML) format to deliver an enclosed file. Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated "radio shows," and gives broadcast radio programs a new distribution method. Listeners may subscribe to feeds using "podcatching" software (a type of aggregator), which periodically checks for and downloads new content automatically. Some podcatching software is also able to synchronise (copy) podcasts to portable music players. Any digital audio player or computer with audio-playing software can play podcasts. The same technique can deliver video files, and by 2005 some aggregators could play video as well as audio.
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That. To put it simply, it's like a radio station, but not live, and you download the episodes before you listen to them.


It doesn't have to be a podcasting system, on our forum, we devised a new system on flash.
 
Err, what exactly is there to broadcast?

And with the traffic GTP gets, the bandwidth definitely wouldn't help Jordan's poor server – it's already getting in excess of 2 TB per month.
 

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