Now Podcasting

When I was in Seattle the big buzzword everyone was throwing at me as a little net musician was Podcasting. I don't own an iPod so I automatically disqualified myself from being interested in it. I've had a chance to read up on it now though and it's really just aggregated audio content, which I am a fan of. You jam audio (generally audio you make, radio shows, etc.) into your RSS feeds, and then there are tools such as iPodder to automatically download this content. As a next step it'll cram it into your iPod so you can listen on the go.

As a net musician, priority number one is getting my dumb songs out there to as many people as possible. Without a giant budget I have no sure-fire way to get onto the radio, so obviously the idea of a free opt-in broadcast service is nice and exciting.

Thanks to Pieter Overbeeke and Bernard Flach's enclosure modification for Wordpress (which Pieter verified to me works fine with Wordpress 1.2.1), I've added enclosure support to my latest song entries. This feed here should get you the latest Brad junk into your aggregator. The main feed will now have enclosure support for my songs as well alongside my regular postings.

I'm also trying to figure out a way to move all the remixes people have done with my source files over into a feed of their own as well, but that's being a bit trickier.

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Fans Rule

Fans Rule is a great entry by Scott Andrew about how the number one importance to new bands should be the accumulation of new fans, not worrying about copy protection. I've rambled a lot of similar stuff in the past but Scott's entry is very well written and worth reading.

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I am an MSN Search Champ

Well holy lord I survived a trip to Seattle to have a look at Microsoft's new ultra mega super secret (x 2) search engine. They didn't kill me or nothin'. I am now officially an MSN Search Champ, which I have always felt in my heart to be the case. I had a great time. I got to hang out with a ton of interesting people as well as see and drink a lot of really interesting stuff. I want to list everybody I met and formed eternal bonds with but I'm afraid I'll forget somebody and be an ass.

I'm too tired to write much about the search stuff and also it has very little to do with rocking out. From the few blogs of people I met I've checked out, Elizabeth Lawley, Chris Pirillo and the brilliant David Weinberger are writing stuff on it if you're interested. Also David wrote some pretty awesomely nice things about me here. Now I am totally ordering the Cluetrain Manifesto, perhaps that was his plan all along.

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