Stupid-ass question time....

...One of my faculty colleagues wants to get into podcasting, and I'm looking into solutions for not only him but anyone else in the department who may get bit by the bug.

Pros: we have our own server, plenty of space, bandwidth out the yin-yang. The instructor in question is quite skilled at audio manipulation and encoding.

Cons: He's not so skilled at manually editing an .xml RSS feed, and I'd like to automate/GUI-up that process as much as possible. Also, he's on a Mac, though I know others who'll want to take advantage of this are on PCs.

Advice? All signs point to Feedburner, or possibly Movable Type with its free plugin. Anybody been down this road before?

Sigma Hate Present

Dammit. First The West Wing's Leo McGarry, John Spencer, dies (he was turning 59 next week). And then we get the choice piece of info that not only has the National Security Agency been freely snooping on American citizens (sans warrant) for the longest time, and not only is the administration perfectly fine with that, but (and here's where it gets actually surprising) the New York Times knew about it for a year and held the story at the administration's request.

Christ, why bother having a newspaper? If you're not printing this, then what else is more important, more worthy of putting ink to paper for? Appalling. Shameful.