Still As Life

Today while downloading the latest version of Adobe’s Acrobat Reader for a computer at work that didn’t have it for some reason, I noticed that Adobe have started to bundle their new Adobe Media Player with it.

From the Adobe website:

“With a broad catalog of videos and shows from the leading media companies and networks, you have endless choices. Pick the episodes you love to watch, and Adobe® Media Player software will track new episodes and download them so you can watch whenever you want.”

It’s the first time I’ve come across it and it sounds like it is intended to be a similar idea to Apple TV/iTunes Store, except that it is taking a slightly different approach by providing it as a software package installable on any computer, rather than using the specific Apple TV hardware component.

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I was doing some research on podcasts yesterday for a website I am working on at the moment.

The site is using Drupal, so there is a podcast module already available, I was just doing some research on how other people are laying out their podcasts, doing their designs and so on. While doing this, I found some interesting tag clouds.

If you have a look at:

• http://www.podcast.net/
• http://www.podcastalley.com/
• http://www.thepodlounge.com.au/categories

Have a look at the tag clouds and the top categories.

On Podcast.net, the 4th biggest category is “Religion and Philosophy.”

On Podcast Alley the 4th biggest category is “Religion and Spirituality.”

On The Pod Lounge, the tied second biggest tag is “Religion and Spirituality.”

At the time of writing this, 3 of the top 10 podcasts on Podcast Alley were religious podcasts, this has since changed though.

I just found it interesting that in a world where religion seems to be quite unpopular, particularly in my generation, not just Christianity, but religion in general, that some of the most popular podcasts and one of the largest genre’s is in fact religious.

I suppose in a way, religion is ideally suited to podcasting, since sermons can easily be recorded, and in many places have been getting recorded for a long time. So it’s just one extra step to upload them as a podcast.

What do you think?

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