When I developed
Ed Radio a couple of years ago, I was pretty pleased with it. What it did was to use
Edu_RSS to scrape RSS feeds for MP3 audio links, then combine them into a single feed, so that when you clicked on the link the audio would start playing in your player. It was an obvious and important step in the development of podcasting, and that's why there is a reference to it in the
Wikipedia entry about podcasting. I don't know whether it directly influenced Dave Winer and Adam Curry (I've long suspected Winer of reading this website, but he
never cites my work in his blog), but it makes it clear that what became podcasting in the fall of 2004 was the result of many voices.
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