What is an iPodder? Dave Winer asks you to tell him… He thinks it works like this:

1. There’s a list of feeds the user is subscribed to, just like a feed reader or aggregator.
2. Periodically the iPodder reads the feeds, looks for items with enclosures that it hasn’t seen. Each such enclosure is added to a queue.
3. Another thread watches the queue, if it’s empty it goes back to sleep; if there’s something on it, it reads the first one.
4. When an enclosure is successfully read, it’s saved in a folder (user-configurable) and an Apple Event (on the Mac) or a COM message (Windows) is sent to iTunes telling it to add the file to the library.
5. The iPodder tell iTunes to synch with the iPod.

Some interesting things…
WireTap, according to their site: is a free product for MacOS X 10.2 or later that allows you to record any audio playing on your Mac, saving it to a file for later listening or processing. This allows you to record news from Internet radio stations such as the BBC News, sound snippets from your favorite DVD movie, record the audio from a game, or even iChatAV conversations.
Audacity is a free audio editor running on Mac, WIn, or Linux. The website says: You can record sounds, play sounds, import and export WAV, AIFF, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files, and more. Use it to edit your sounds using Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo), mix tracks together, or apply effects to your recordings. It also has a built-in amplitude envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode and a frequency analysis window for audio analysis applications. Built-in effects include Echo, Change Tempo, and Noise Removal, and it also supports VST and LADSPA plug-in effects.
RadioSHARK is a USB AM/FM Radio with Time Shift Recording for Mac or PC. Lists for $69.99. The web site says: The RadioSHARK can record any AM or FM radio broadcast in real time. You can also program it to record a scheduled show, or to ‘pause’ live radio so you can return right where you left off moments or even hours before.

Posting this with the latest version of ecto for Mac. The new version 2.0 is in beta and looks great, I love the way drafts work in this release, and the way that each blog maintains its own preferences and am looking forward to trying out the iPhoto integration…

Hugo Schotman’s podcasting studio setup. Great how to for doing your own audioblogging under Mac OS X, using Soundflower to pass audio to different applications.

iDive looks like a nice way to manage your DV clips. As a new Dad, I am realizing that in addition to the standard duties of baby care, you are now the official archivist of the family and must become an expert at digital video production and management, so maybe an application like this will help with management of imported DV clips from the video camera… When I find some time to try out the demo, I’ll try and post a note.