The WordPress guys have started offering another upgrade: lots and lots of upload space. You can upgrade to 1GB, 5GB or 10GB of space. They posed the question, what would you do with 10GB of space on WordPress.com? And no, you can’t upload your entire MP3 collection!
I don’t post many images on my blog, so I’d never use 10GB of space for images. One use I thought of would be for podcasts. This got me to thinking that perhaps the WordPress guys could build in a podcast recording thing on the blogging dashboard: you could simply record your podcast in WordPress, and then post it to your blog. I know you can record podcasts at Odeo and then post them in your blog, but I figure being able to record podcasts within WordPress would just be 1 step simpler. I’ve often seen WordPress blogs being used in conjunction with podcasting, so it’s not that long of a stretch.
I’ve never tried making a podcast, and never even considered starting a regular podcast, but I’d probably use it occasionally if it were built right into WordPress, if for nothing else than a change of pace on my blog and for a bit of fun. It can’t hurt for readers to know more about me, even if it’s what I sound like. 
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December 9, 2006 at 8:49 am
woodsy
Hi Josh
It appears storage space is one of the things that has come down in price all over the place. My first PC with a GUI-based operating system had a huge hard drive - all of 200-odd MB!
The cheapness of storage space has also been accompanied by a general propensity for greater use of multimedia.
As regards podcasting, I’d be reluctant to do so regularly: I dislike the sound of my own recorded voice. Mind you, I might be forced to eat my words at some time in the future. I recall my cynicism and scoffing when weblogs first started; now I look after 2 myself and contribute to others.
All the best
Woodsy
December 9, 2006 at 9:24 am
Josh
Woodsy: I remember such things as well! Our first computer had 160MB of space, because I distinctly remember having 320MB after we used compression software. I also remember that games generally took from 3-15MB of space back then. Now they take 2+ gigabytes.
Understood about the podcasting. I’m not sure I’m crazy about my recorded voice either. I’d have to give it a whirl and see if I sound like a doof or not.
December 10, 2006 at 8:48 am
woodsy
Josh: never heard ‘doof’ used in English before; I’m more familiar with it as a mild insult in German. Then again 3,000 odd miles of wet stuff between the UK and USA do tend to reinforce differences to the point where we’re described as ‘two countries divided by a common language’.
December 10, 2006 at 5:43 pm
Josh
Woodsy: Where I’m at we often use “doof” in place of the word “doofus”. Do you Brits use that word?
Regarding ‘two countries divided by a common language’, so true!
December 11, 2006 at 10:31 am
woodsy
Josh: I’ve heard of doofus before, but we don’t use it over this side of the pond.
As for the 2 countries business, I’ve heard some British film have to have glossaries supplied for American audiences. However, this also happens with here with some domestic output. I remember a Scottish comedy TV series set in Glasgow called Rab C. Nesbitt; this had to have subtitles for perplexed Sassenachs unable to cope with the very broad accents.
December 11, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Josh
Glossaries? Wow. Then again, when I’ve looked at some online glossaries of British English words, I’ve been quite lost. So I can understand that I suppose.
Speaking of accents: I used to watch Are You Being Served? all the time when I was younger. After watching it for quite a while I understood the accents just fine. I’d often forget that it took me a while to understand them, until a friend would try and watch the show with me. “I can’t watch this; I can’t understand anything they’re saying!”