BAGHDAD–Greetings all. I’m going to be try­ing some­thing new here on B2I: Pod­casts. About once a week, I’m going to put one of these lit­tle things out. Today’s is pretty basic, as a first attempt might be, and it’s really more of a proof of con­cept than any­thing else. Please for­give the rough edges and the stream-of-conciousness tone of the thing.

In the future, I’d like to bring in Iraqis to talk, do more audio sto­ries and even try to do a call-in for read­ers with iChat or Skype. If there’s inter­est in such “chat-in” shows, I’ll see if I can find an Iraqi co-host and we’ll answer your ques­tions and prob­a­bly argue with you a bit. I’m think­ing this would be very pop­u­lar.

So, feed­back is wel­come. I’m try­ing to get the size down and this first pod­cast is about 10 min­utes long. Enjoy.

Down­load the “Six Weeks” pod­cast by click­ing here or on the “pod­cast” icons above and below. For those of you with iTunes 4.9, on both Macs and Win­dows, you can sub­scribe to the B2I pod­casts by choos­ing “Sub­scribe to Pod­cast…” under the “Advanced” menu and input either this URL: http://​feeds​.feed​burner​.com/​b​a​c​k​-​t​o​-​i​r​a​q​/​K​jzv. or http://​www​.back​-to​-iraq​.com/​i​n​d​e​x​.​xml Other pod­cast­ing clients, such as iPod­derX will work in a sim­i­lar fash­ion. If you’d like to sub­scribe to the B2I RSS feed, they’re all avail­able down to the right.

[UPDATE: OK. I’m com­pletely bum­fuz­zled as to why my feed won’t pick up the .mp3 enclo­sure. If any com­puter whizzes out there want to help, I’d be most grate­ful. The MT-Enclosures plu­gin I’m using seems to be pick­ing every other URL up in this post except the .mp3 tag. What gives?]

Prob­lem solved.