Scripting News: Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025 My mother would have been 93 years old today. She died in 2018, seven years ago. As time goes by, I feel her importance in my life more and more. I find I didn't have a realistic perspective in the living years. But more than any other person in my life, she shaped me -- for better or worse, but mostly better. # What podcasting is # Note: Posted on Facebook eleven years ago. Still relevant today. # You couldn't have had podcasting without a lot of things coming together. They all had to be there. # Networks of writers who shared links. Blogging. # A protocol for moving links around a network. HTTP. # Something to attach links and recordings to. RSS. # A standard format for recording. MP3. # Inexpensive, easy to use playback devices, that could hook up to all this. iPod. # You might argue that we still haven't gotten all the pieces needed for it to really work. But one thing is...