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PoducateMe: Practical Solutions for Podcasting in Education

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visit the CareerChat home page (http://www.units.muohio.edu/careers/students/podcast/) and click on

the XML chicklet.

Depending on whether your browser is capable of reading RSS feeds, you’ll either see a

Web page containing structured feed information (Figure 5), or a page of code that will

make it appear as if your browser threw up (Figure 6).

Figure 5: The CareerChat XML feed rendered in Safari Web browser

Figure 6: What the-? CareerChat XML feed rendered in Firefox Web browser.

As you see, Firefox cannot process RSS feeds. This isn’t problematic, however, because

what we’re interested in here is the feed’s URL in the address bar at the top of the page.

For some reason, only in Safari, when you click the XML chicklet, the feed URL is

rewritten from the typical format of http://feeds.FeedBurner.com/CareerChat to an

alternate format of feed://feeds.FeedBurner.com/CareerChat. iTunes will understand the

feed: prefix in the URL, but other podcatchers will not.

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