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  July 2, 2005


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s I continue to plan for Blog Hosted Conversations on How to Save the World, I've been keeping an eye on developments in multimedia blogging. Here are a few of them:

Video blogger reaches 10,000 viewers per day: Video blogger Amanda Congdon has attracted quite an audience with her daily 3-minute video blog. Each segment has links below the screen for additional information on the subjects of the videocast.

iTunes now incorporates podcasts: The latest version 4.9 of Apple iTunes contains a large directory of podcasts sorted by category, including blogcasts. When you subscribe, the latest edition of each podcaster is downloaded automatically and appears in the left iTunes sidebar under the purple Podcasts icon.

Or you can subscribe to them by RSS: Audio.podcasts.com lists the latest podcasts, the same way weblogs.com lists the latest written blogs, with the facility to subscribe to their RSS feeds as well.

Progressive radio over the net: RadioPower is streaming audio 24/7 from a variety of progressive broadcasters.

Record your conversations as MP3s: A free app, MP3MyMP3, allows you to record your Skype or conference calls (or Internet radio or podcasts) as MP3 or wav files, so you can podcast them.

What do you think is the future of multimedia blogging? What would it take for you to start listening to, or watching, blogcasts instead of just reading them?

Photo from the always-amazing Daily Dose of Imagery, from last night's Canada Day fireworks display in Toronto harbour.

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