I've talked with a couple of people I know, and many of them have stated that the reason they aren't regular listeners to the podcast is because they don't have an iPod/Zune device that will automatically download new podcasts when they are available. So I thought I'd create a brief guide on how you can be notified when new podcasts are available if you don't have one of these devices.
FYI: I use the term "RSS feed" or "RSS post" alot. RSS is just the way that podcasts and blogs distribute their information. By typing in the address of the "RSS feed", several different programs can "follow" or "subscribe" to these feeds and pick up new posts as soon as they are posted.
1) iTunes / Zune Marketplace: I'd recommend this the most to anyone who doesn't have an MP3 player at all. I'm going to talk about iTunes predominately because that's what I use, but the same thing applies to the Zune Marketplace if that's more your style. You can search for us in the iTunes store and by subscribing to us, iTunes will download any new podcasts to your computer everytime you open it.
2) Google Reader: This approach is for those that regularly follow other blogs/podcasts/etc. Google Reader is a feature of Google that allows you to put in the RSS feed of blogs and podcasts and displays any new postings from those feeds in your browser (think of it as Gmail for podcasts and blogs). Just sign in using a Google account (or create one) and type in our RSS feed (http://idquotethat.libsyn.com/rss) to receive notices when we post new episodes (you can even add the RSS feed for this blog too!!). If this is the only RSS feed you follow, this probably isn't the option for you, although if it sounds like something you'd like to get into, next week I'll post blogs/podcasts that I recommend people start following.
3) Email Programs: If you use a separate program for email, such as Microsoft Outlook, this option might be the best for you, although personally I prefer Mozilla Thunderbird. Just like how it downloads emails into an inbox for you, it can also be setup to download new RSS posts into a separate folder. Here (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_RSS_Basics) a tutorial for how to do this in Thunderbird, with a little Googling you can figure out how to do this in Outlook as well.
4) Twitter: If none of the other options above sound like something you'd be interested in doing, both the Doc (Colcakes196) and I (Idquotetheprof) have twitter accounts. Usually at least one of us will "tweet" something everytime we post a new episode, so by following us you can get reminders every week to check us out.
I hope there was at least some option here that people could relate to, if you have any questions send us an email (idquotethat@gmail.com) and I'll see if I can help you out.
- Chris
