A day in the life of a Podcasting Feed Producer
Lately I have been living the life of a Podcast Feed producer. Since I am one of the first to perform this process on a daily basis, I get to drive the bus for a while before others begin to join in. The fruit of my "free" labor can be seen and heard over at "The Daily Podcast Feed".
Life for me as a sunrising Podcast Feed producer starts at about 4:00AM EST. I start the day by scouting out all the new, cool and interesting podcasts in the space. As I sift through the podcast gems of the day, I start to compile a new feed for the new day that represents a horizontal representation of what's new in the blogaudsphere. Eventually I'll probably move toward producing some vertical podcast feeds but right now I'm content on playing with the podcasting feed production process with a variety feed. At this time on the timeline history of podcasting, there is value in bringing a variety feed to a wide audience (which includes myself) of new potential podcast listeners without all the hassles of having to configure any Podcatcher software.
My main goal in the morning is to get the Daily Podcast Feed up between 5 and 6 AM EST. If I was to get the feed up much later then that, I would loose the potential window of opportunity for East Coast Podcatchers to discover and podcatch the feed before their journey to work.
Once the feed is up on "The Daily Podcast Feed", it's onto testing all the new shows for their streaming ability through the flash media player. If they fail any of my simple streaming tests they're removed from the feed. Ability to stream is a potential that Podcasters will need to consider and face soon with their hosting options.
The computer I perform the testing with is connected to my home theatre system. Speakers are placed throughout my home so I can listen and test as I get ready for work.
As my Broadband network is stream testing all the podcasts in the new feed at the same time I'm using my Podcatcher software to download the same new podcasts directly onto my > $99.00 MP3 flash player to listen to on my ride to work.
5:40:02 PM 
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