Podcasting:: X-casting with Del.icio.us

del.icio.us + enclosures = x-casting

This post over at the del.icio.us blog says:

Bookmarked items in del.icio.us that end in one of a number of filetypes will now automatically get some system tags added. You can use these just like normal tags. RSS feeds that have one of those system tags added will automatically become a rss-with-enclosures file.

So now you can generate a podcast from a del.icio.us feed of entries tagged with, say, system:filetype:mp3. Or, to get a podcast of all del.icio.us audio entries, get this: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:media:audio. You can video-cast, picture-cast, pdf-cast, etc, etc. del.icio.us beocmes the enabler to “cast” bloody anything.

Brilliant!

And would you believe it, it gets even better! Say you wanted me to listen to a cool podcast. Instead of emailing me a link or whathaveyou, you could just tag it (something agreed upon) so I could then subscribe to that tagfeed–and voila! Podcasts you tag are automagically on myPod next time I sync up. Share podcasts via feeds, cutting out all the time-wasting communications middlemen.

It reminds me of http://dv3.agileco.net/xcasting and of http://icomcentral.com/demo.htm