PodGuides.net is starting up a podcasting site featuring free spoken tour guides. Here's what they say:
You can enjoy detailed spoken descriptions of what you see while visiting the city (museum, ...) of your choice. A PodGuide is basically like a downloadable audio tour.OK, so there is only one podcast so far. Still. This is a great new venue for wannabe podcasters. You know, citizen podcasters. You take a trip and record some audio about the places you see.
The site has a great little free tool called PodGuide Generator - a metal app, so you better take your iBook or Powerbook (or hopefully soon an iBook mini) with you while you travel (there's a version for Windows too). Record on your iPod or cell phone and write a few notes in your moleskine or sidekick while you travel and put it all together with the PodGuide Generator. Yay!
This is clearly a hybrid podcasting app. It helps a lot if there's a map, photos, addresses AND an audio track. Apparently iTunes can show the photos or the iPod photo. Great idea! At minimum, I look forward to downloading some fun tour guides. Make it easy enough and even I'll do one. Better bookmark these folks.
Oh, and if you are one of the many tour guides. How cool would it be to sell mini podcasts of your tours as loss leaders or as souvenirs for your tour participants?
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