Always willing to try new things, I'm exploring the world of podcasting. A couple of weeks ago, I tried my hand at a news of the week recording. It's something I plan to do more often. In the meantime, I met Ted Gilchrist at a blogger party in Cambridge, and mentioned that what I really need is a way to convert each entry into speech so they could be podcast without my spending time recording. Ted, as it turns out, has a tool for that and is now creating text-to-speech podcats of Baseball Musings.

So now it's possible to download the posts from this blog to your MP3 player while you're getting ready for work in the morning, and listen in the car on the way to work! You can download software at ipodder.org (it's free). Then, subscribe to two feeds. My own RSS 2.0 feed will have my recorded audio files. Ted's feed will have the text-to-voice version of the posts (and it does sound robotic).

If anyone subscribes to these feeds, please feel free to send any suggestions for improvements. Enjoy!

Update: Ted Gilchrist sent me a very creative MP3 file that explains what went on at the party.