The Neef Law Library blog at Wayne State University is using Shockwave audio files to record blog content. A slightly different form of podcasting, but it works very nicely without the 'pod' or iTunes. It uses ClassCaster as the underlying technology.
I gather that the ultimate use of this will be to podcast courses, the Neef librarians are testing it with other content. And since it uses Shockwave, a fairly common browser plug-in, it's pretty universally accessible.
Correction: 4 November 2005:
Elmer at Content let me know, very nicely, that I didn't do my research very well!
By way of correction, we are not using Shockwave to record podcasts. We are embedding a Flash MP3 player object in the post to play the audio, but the recording is done using a telephone connection or by uploading locally recorded MP3s. We are using the open source Musicplayer at the moment, but are developing our own player that is more tuned to playing single MP3s from a blog post.
Thanks for the correction.
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The underlying technology for delivering the audio - which ClassCaster are using - actually appears to be MusicPlayer, which is available on Sourceforge at http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/.
We are looking to use the same software in Talis' podcast series, which should launch in the next week or two.
Posted by Paul Miller | October 21, 2005 5:09 PM
Posted on October 21, 2005 17:09