Slate has come up with an interesting twist on podcasting. They’re now offering daily feeds of their popular “Today’s Papers” column as a podcast. But the cast is not in audio. The headlines and summaries of the day’s top news from papers across the nation are displayed as text within an iTunes audio file. Even on my nano, readability isn’t half bad. I may go ahead and subscribe so I’ll always have something to read if I get stuck at a bus stop, the doctor’s office, the county jail, with nothing better to do. Not really sure if this “textcasting” will catch on, but it might be a cool, albeit kludgey, way to get subscribable e-books on your Pod.
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