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PoducateMe: Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education

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A Brief History of Podcasting

Much has been written about the origins of podcasting, and much of that history is mired

in reports of bitter rivalries and disputed credits. Generally, Dave Winer, a software

developer and an author of the RSS format, and former MTV VJ Adam Curry are

recognized as the originating force behind the podcasting phenomenon.

In October 2003, approximately two years following Winer’s first incorporation of media

file downloading capabilities into RSS, Curry helped popularize this little-used

functionality with the introduction of the script RSStoiPod. The RSStoiPod script offered

readers of Curry’s weblog (blog) the ability to harvest MP3 files from an RSS feed and

transfer them directly into iTunes. The files could then be copied from iTunes to an iPod

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