SeattleBlueGullDec 28, 2023
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Welcome to #textcasting!
"Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text"

I came across @davew's http://textcasting.org proposal. There are going to be multiple layers of standards that make up the federated social web. None will win, ever. Defining a lowest common denominator for the exchange of public messages makes a lot of sense to me.

Textcasting

Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text.

Dec 24, 2023 at 8:17pmWeb
Show threadAndrewDec 24, 2023
@liaizon @davew how is this not just RSS
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Dec 24, 2023
@cinebox @davew I think is RSS in the same way that Podcasting is actually just RSS too
Show threadMike Macgirvin 🖥️Dec 24, 2023
Some of the many things that I've supported since long before Dave created them...
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Dec 24, 2023
@mikedev if only more people knew about your work
Show threadLife is TetrisSep 28, 2025
@liaizon @mikedev old post, I know. I suppose using #Hubzilla's #Zot or nomadic #ActivityPub isn't textcasting because it doesn't build on #RSS or other such base building block? I guess it could be/become textcasting if a subset can be used standalone like a microformat or something?
Show threadsilverpillDec 24, 2023

@liaizon @davew Sounds good. But I don't know what enclosure is, did he mean inline audio/video?

>Enclosures. This makes it possible to use social media for podcasting. Why not? The two seem to go well together.

Show threadwakest likes your bugs ⁂Dec 24, 2023
@silverpill @davew yes. podcasting came out of the movement to add media enclosures to the rss standards
Show threadMike Macgirvin 🖥️Dec 24, 2023
Attachments, of which RSS (unlike more modern syndication formats such as Atom and Activitystreams) can only have one.
Show threadDave Winer ☕️Dec 24, 2023

@liaizon

That’s the idea. 😀

Show threadJohn AllsoppDec 25, 2023

@liaizon @davew when the iPod first came out it had a 'notes' feature. These were text files that could use a small amount of HTML including links.

So Russ Weakly (not on Fed?) and I created 'Podsites'

https://web.archive.org/web/20051029152606/http://podsites.com/make.cfm

Sadly you couldn't pull down new notes via RSS–or it would have been text casting in 2004!

How to make podSites - podSites.com

How to make podSites - podSites.com