OK… So I‘m somewhat late to the party for this to be anything like ’breaking news‘ but having played for a week or so with the podcasting features of iTunes 4.9, I have to say I’m impressed; in typical Apple fashion they have managed to make process very simple and straight-forward.

I guess there are really 2 things I wanted to say about this …

1. Get hooked up with delicious RSS eg: http://del.icio.us/tag/system:media:video :: this will get any new videos bookmarked on del.icio.us (and if you don't know what del.icio.us is, you really need to check it out; it's such an useful resource - even if only as the easiest way of organising your web bookmarks). There are all sorts of things posted up here - very entertaining!

1. The future: RSS enclosures have unbelievable possibilities - how about subscription based music, where a 'Bayesian (t d f)‘ algorithm (like the one used for Junk filtering in OSX’s Mail.app, but in reverse - selecting things you do want), picks out music for you and automatically sends it through to you via RSS, directly into iTunes. And so on.

Anyway. Steam:Out