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method of delivering text content. Now Apple has a way to market to deaf
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Xeni Jardin <BR><B>Posted At:</B> Tuesday,
May 16, 2006 6:11 PM<BR><B>Posted To:</B> Boing Boing<BR><B>Conversation:</B>
Slate.com starts "textcasting": podcasts of print content.<BR><B>Subject:</B>
Slate.com starts "textcasting": podcasts of print content.<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/iBag?m=1409">http://feeds.feedburner.com/boingboing/iBag?m=1409</A></P><STRONG>Xeni
Jardin</STRONG>: My friend and colleague Andy Bowers at Slate.com shares word
that Slate has launched a service they call "textcasting," starting with their
"Today's Papers" feature. A "textcast," Andy explains, is a podcast in which the
main thing being delivered to your iPod is text rather than audio. You read the
text on your iPod's screen. Snip:
<BLOCKQUOTE>[T]he iPod is not currently configured as a text reader, so we've
done our best to work around the device's limitations. (Here's hoping Apple
will make its cash cow more text-friendly in future releases.) That said, I've
been testing the TP textcast for several weeks now, and I find it very easy to
use. Plus, I love that Today's Papers just shows up in my iPod automatically
each day.
<P>Here's a little more detail on how the textcast works: The text is actually
contained in a 15-minute audio file. (It's 15 minutes of silence, which is how
we make the file so small.) Play the file as you would any other podcast, and
then hit the iPod's center button two or three times until you reach the
description field, which contains the full TP text. You can scroll through the
text using the iPod's scroll wheel. </P></BLOCKQUOTE><A
title=http://www.slate.com/id/2141802/
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