p-Podcast for 'Picture Podcast'

While working on one of my assignment (a system for a Citizen Journalism), I stumbled upon an idea… ‘Why can’t there be a picture podcast?’ a mix of still images changing over an audio…

As you might have read about the latest rumors about Apple launching a video-iPodcast…
(money.cnn.com/2005/10/05/technology/personaltech/apple.reut/index.htm)
... this picture podcast idea is pretty simple in a way…it’s composition of audio + still images…which change over time based on audio…and this roll over can be automatic or the user uploading this podcast can customize the time of roll over of every image...

The advantage here would that we don’t have to upload and download a video (which has a much larger file size) but upload images which are ‘time tagged’…so an audio is uploaded in audio format but images are uploaded with an addition on time tags…
While downloading images and audio are downloaded; and at the client side these are combined together to make up an Audio-Video file…which can run on windows or real players…or as slide shows...

While playing the images rollover based on the time tags embedded along with the audio…so people will get a multimedia experience...i guess it would be interesting...

Imagine getting audio and images together for an event…may be like ‘London bombing’…viewing the horror by both audio and images…it would be a powerful medium to express and inform…

I'll be posting some of my other thoughts...

Good Day... :)