Many of you know what a podcast is, and how to automagically have your
computer save the file, and possibly download it to an MP3 player. But for
those of you who don’t, this is really easy. Find yourself a podcasting
client (I prefer the lean-and-mean open-source Juice, available at
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/ while others prefer the bloated
Apple salestool iTunes), add the blog’s RSS feed (there’s an “RSS” icon on
the left sidebar) to the client’s list of watched podcasts, and *poof* -
every time I add a program, you’ll automagically receive it. You don’t have
to keep checking for new episodes, your podcast client software will do that
for you and auto-download the files as they appear! I’ll start running the
Christmas on the Moon files in a few days, to give those interested time to
add the blog to their podcast software.

   Indeed, you might consider using a news aggregator to keep an eye on the
Nostalgic Rumblings blog, too; important information is posted there in some
cases faster than on the OTR Digest, I can include photos and soundfiles
there that can’t be added to the Digest (like the photos provided by Al
Girard of his great transcription find, or the photos posted the other day in
memory of Frankie Thomas, or like the Christmas on the Moon soundfiles). You
can use the browser FireFox, which has internal support for “live bookmarks,”
or you can use a stand-alone desktop aggregator like NewsGator at
http://www.newsgator.com/ NewsFeed at http://home.arcor.de/mdoege/newsfeed/
or any other (a google search on “rss feed reader” will turn up lots of
information). Any of these will monitor the blog for you, alerting you when
something new is posted so you can decide whether to visit and read the
latest, or skip this one and check out the next. Of course, if you need help
or advice, you can gimme a yell, and I’ll do whatever I can to help.

   And while I’m rambling on, I’ve added the Fundraiser discs I had with me
at last year’s FOTR and this year’s Cincinnati conventions to the store at
http://shop.oldradio.net/ which makes the first time those of you who didn’t
attend can see what’s on ‘em - I was hoping to get the first of the new 2006
discs posted by now, but with recent events I want to rework some of the
files before releasing them. I’ll let you know when the 2006 discs show up
there; shouldn’t be too long.

   And finally, let me again thank Bob, Chris, Gordon, and Kermyt for
supplying the files for the Katester…and all of us!