Textcasting?
Some clever person over at Slate.com has decided to start ‘textcasting‘. Basically a blank file with a bunch of text.
Dear god why? The idea was to get text onto an iPod. Newsflash guys: The iPods ‘Notes’ feature is designed exactly for that! This is the kind of thing that is a good idea (including the text along with the podcast) completely taken to the next, very stupid, level.
Talk about re-inventing the wheel.
I suppose the idea is to lever the current podcasting software into automatically downloading it onto the iPod, but there are already RSS -> notes downloaders, and some of them are built into some podcasting software.
I’m really scratching my head over this, can anyone provide any decent rationalisation for it?