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Originally Posted by Timothy D. Ginn
I imagine I'd listen occasionally (like I do for our local campus radio station). I'm curious though; how many FIRST people are already podcasting things and if there's a bunch, would the format basically be stitching together interesting/related podcasts from different sources? As for hosting; well, being a radio host who actually speaks, etc. isn't really something I'd considered; but, it may be a possibility to host the actual podcast on one of the openFIRST servers (ala. FIRST Blogs) especially if someone else were willing to take on maintenance/organisation. |
As far as a distribution system goes, I'd like to avoid using BitTorrent, as it limits your audience to those willing to install it (sad, but true). So the best way to do this would be to have a perl script on each volunteer host, and the script that generates the podcast XML would randomly pick one of the volunteer servers to direct the user's podcast client too. Then it's just a matter of tweaking probabilities to ensure each server is loaded in porportion to what it can handle.