How do you Subscribe and Receive Your Podcasts and Favorited Blogs? Compared to a year ago, many more people now know how to bookmark or favoritise sites or blog entries they like, by using sites like Digg, Techorati, StumbleUpon, etc.  Like StumbleUpon, many news-readers (aka rss-readers) are installed to sit in your Firefox, MSIE (or any other internet browser the clients may support).  Some refer to these news-readers as ‘Desktop Clients’ (I just prefer to call them ‘rss-reader’ or ‘media-reader’).  There are just sooooo many rss/media readers out there (mindbloggling!) so I’ll just pick randomly 7 Rss/Media-Readers to talk about!  They do not…..

create podcasts – they help you grab other bloggers’ podcasts.  Where these Rss/Media-readers can be found are also the very places bloggers and website-owners can add or submit their own rss feeds or podcast feeds.

1. Select and download audio files from anywhere on the Internet to your desktop for music or any audio files with Juice.

2. WinPodder Its forum is pretty new.

3. With Podnova you can synchronise your web content with your iPod, find podcasts by tags and categories, subscribe to iPod channels, etc. Interestingly, there’s a “Government & Organisations” category for podcasts.

Podnova’s strong point: it works for Windows-operated pc, MACs and for those running GNU/Linux servers.

4. If you like to listen to interesting talks, interviews and fun stuff on your computer or MP3 player, you have to check out Ziepod.  Ziepod monitors your podcasts for you and brings what people talks right in front of you.

Ziepod allows you to search episodes of video podcasts and rate them according to quality and content, manage your podcast playlists, BlogLines support and more.

Thanks to its integrated web search capability, Ziepod shows your new subscribers your previously-posted podcast episodes through Feedzie.com too.

Ziepod processes all RSS and Atom Feeds, and is able to bring videos and audios of the following format :
+ Quicktime formats (.mov and .qt)
+ Real Media format (.RM)

You can also activate/deactivate iPod/iTunes support in Ziepod. Like all other podcasts you listen online, you can download podcasts to your iPods or mobile-playing device.

The commercial version (Ziepod+) gives a HTML reporting of retrieved content (how often your podcasts are retrieved, etc).

Ziepod’s FAQ page answers restrictions of usage.

5. And if you want podcasts of ONLY-MUSIC variety, check out Music.Podshow.com. “Submit your music and watch your fans and CDs grow).”  Artists are randomly featured on Music.Podshow.com.  (To protect artists (musicians), only podcast-producers are able to download music.)  There’s also a section for other non-music podcasters.

6. PodcastPickle is where you can find podcasts for Wrestling and Religions, and a whole load of other categories.  Its ‘Podcast Webring’ ties its podcasting members so visitors can freely visit one podcast member’s blog to another.  PodcastPickle is inaccessible as of Jan 2009 (either that or Singapore audience are blocked.)

7. And what if you want to bring all podcasts from different (podcast-powered) online radio stations into your own mashed-up podcasts?  Try GigaDial.  I can imagine Mr. Brown’s or Oprah Winfrey’s radio/talk show stations listed on GigaDial!

And here are some other random programs/services (rss/podcast/media readers) that help people to subscribe to audio, video and news podcasts:

BitsCast
FeedDemon
SharpReader
RSS Bandit
BlogExpress
RiverGate RSS Reader
NewsPiper
DocTray  (the first Medical RSS News Reader)

(Side-note:  Feedburner is not exactly an rss-reader, it’s more a webfeed management service provider that informs your subscribers of your new blog entries via email.  Feedburner also converts your blog entries to RSS feeds, so that the feeds are readable using news-reader or media-readers.)

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