At one level, this is blogging for people with even larger egos, folks who think they need to be heard as well as read. On another level, RSS feeds are a good way for commercial audio producers to make their programming widely available via automated downloads for offline listening.

For example, XM Radio has a new program featuring former NPR host Bob Edwards. But it's on at inconvenient times for me to listen. Wouldn't it be great to have the program automatically loaded onto a portable player each day?

This functionality is already possible for customers of the Audible service, which offers its audio book customers paid subscriptions to NPR and other radio programs. Audible provides desktop client software capable of automatically downloading content from the company's servers and loading it onto customers' portable devices. The software also offers optional automated disk space management capabilities that store only the most current edition of specific programs on the portable.

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