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The DuluthCast.com Duluth Podcast Network is a list of podcasts produced in Duluth Minnesota. The feed contains only the last podcast. Any post in the feed without an audio enclosure – basically, just a blogpost – will be ignored. Saves time, space and bandwidth. You subscribe once and get all of the listed podcasts.
The core of DuluthCast is an aggregate RSS feed I created with Yahoo Pipes. It works from a CSV (Comma Separated Values) list of podcasts and their RSS feed addresses. The pipe looks through the list of podcast feeds, selects only the latest show from each feed, and produces one combined feed including only those, latest shows.
The feed provides the full podcast file, no edits, nothing that wasn't already there (No Derivatives). The feed also includes the full shownotes entry, with one small edit to the title, to indicate which podcast that entry came from (Attribution). The DuluthCast Podroll includes a list of all the podcasts and the subscription links for all of them, too. If a listener only likes a couple of the shows, they can go to the Podroll and subscribe separately.
And the DuluthCast Network feed certainly doesn't make me any money (Non-Commercial). It includes my shows, too, of course, so if it gets popular, I get listened to, and so does everybody else. “A rising tide raises all boats.” If the included shows include ads, that's their show, up to them. If my show includes ads, that's up to me. I don't touch their content.
If a podcast “podfades,” that is, stops producing new content, it stops showing up in the Feed. Even their newest show is ignored if it's over 30 days old.
Clean, simple, easy to maintain, easy to subscribe. The subscription address is http://feeds2.feedburner.com/duluth.
If you want to subscribe to the DuluthCast Podcast Network, click on the link above. If you want to listen and see if you like my choices, click on the yellow button below. That's all there is.
Interesting idea, huh?
