Textcasting has arrived. By Andy Bowers

Slate’s new “textcasting” hack leverages the iTunes podcast distribution infrastructure to
deliver text stories to iPods. How? By embedding the stories in the metadata of silent MP3s.

And you needed another reason to get a new ipod?!

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