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.

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[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.