{"id":8943,"date":"2006-05-18T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T15:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8943"},"modified":"2006-05-18T15:16:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T15:16:27","slug":"textcasting-think-itll-catch-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8943","title":{"rendered":"Textcasting: Think It&#8217;ll Catch On?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/Textcast.gif\">Slate has come up with an interesting twist on podcasting. They&#8217;re now offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2141802\/\" target=\"new\">daily feeds<\/a> of their popular &#8220;Today&#8217;s Papers&#8221; column as a podcast. But the cast is not in audio. The headlines and summaries of the day&#8217;s top news from papers across the nation are displayed as text within an iTunes audio file. Even on my nano, readability isn&#8217;t half bad. I may go ahead and subscribe so I&#8217;ll always have something to read if I get stuck at a bus stop, the doctor&#8217;s office, the county jail, with nothing better to do. Not really sure if this &#8220;textcasting&#8221; will catch on, but it might be a cool, albeit kludgey, way to get subscribable e-books on your Pod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate has come up with an interesting twist on podcasting. They&#8217;re now offering daily feeds of their popular &#8220;Today&#8217;s Papers&#8221; column as a podcast. But the cast is not in audio. The headlines and summaries of the day&#8217;s top news from papers across the nation are displayed as text within an iTunes audio file. Even &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8943\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Textcasting: Think It&#8217;ll Catch On?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}