Easy as one-click

Dave Winer details the 22 steps it takes to download an episode of Meet the Press. To contrast, I have a program on my phone called Egress. It’s not perfect but it does this relatively well.

First time setup:

  1. Go to my Bloglines account and search for feeds about Meet the Press.
  2. Click on the serach results to preview the feed until one of them has an “enclosure” link in it.
  3. Add that feed to my Bloglines (I keep it in a folder called podcasts).
  4. On my phone, launch Egress and tell it to add a feed from a synchronized channel (Bloglines)
  5. Give it my Bloglines username and password
  6. Pick the Meet the Press feed from the list.

In order to get the new show, I click on the update button in Egress. It helps if I’m on a wifi network because the shows are pretty big for EDGE. though sometimes I leave the building before I download ;).

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