| | 1 | We subscribe to a weekly magazine "The Economist", see [https://eve.exoweb.net/trac/wiki/ExoMagazines ExoMagazines]. Since summer 2007 this magazine started offering audio version of the whole issue. Once downloaded to an MP3 player (e.g. iPod) this is a great source of information, as well as awesome training material for !ExoMates brushing up their English (all articles are read by professional lectors). |
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| | 3 | The only pain is that the audio edition is available as a ZIP archive (one file with whole issue and several smaller files, split by sections) and the provider does not offer a podcast subscription. |
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| | 5 | The task is to write a program which sits in Exoweb intranet, polls "The Economist" website for new audio issues, downloads them, publishes via HTTP in an intranet along with podcast feed, to which !ExoMates can subscribe using their podcasting cleints. |
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| | 7 | You need username and password (see [https://eve.exoweb.net/trac/wiki/ExoMagazines ExoMagazines]) to open [http://www.economist.com/audioedition/ "audio section"]. Recently the ZIP files were served from http://talkingissues.economist.com/ . |
