Talk:Autocast
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I do not agree with merging this article with podcasting, which is long enough already.
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don't merge this with podcast
I also do not agree. Podcasting is too long, and autocasting is completely different from podcasting.
I run a podcasting company called Talkr, which apparently the authors of this entry would like to call "autocasting". Autocasting vs podcasting is a distinction without a difference. What makes a podcast a podcast? Syndication via RSS with enclosures? Syndication of music / spoken word audio for playback on a client device? Would a human-read voiceover of someone else's text somehow not qualify as a "podcast" because someone other than the author read it? Is the sole distinction really that a human didn't directly speak the audio? Would human-written / computer synthesized music syndicated as a podcast really be an autocast because it was machine generated?
You misunderstand autocasting and confuse it with podcasting. The two activities are distinct and different--procedurally and conceptually, they have no overlap. Blog consumers autocast. A reader creates an autocast when he automatically generates a spoken audio file from an RSS or ATOM feed. A blog consumer could create an autocast from his home computer, regardless of whether the blog operator provides a podcast. (for example, I have been creating autocasts of my favorite blogs since early 2004, even though most of those blogs did not, and still do not, provide podcasts). Conversely, blog producers podcast. A blog author podcasts when he delivers audio content as an RSS enclosure. Blog providers commonly podcast without autocasting, and indeed, a blog provider could autocast and podcast--that is, he could generate audio files from his blog's RSS feed and deliver the result in an RSS enclosure. Again, these activities are entirely different. These articles' histories indicate that the articles have stood separately for over a year and a half, and the lone dissenter on this page offers no reason, other than his own misunderstanding of the relevant technologies, suddenly to merge them now.
don't merge Tobias Conradi (Talk) 18:32, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
