Podcasting with pictures

My friend Tim has a new dog and K9Cast’s dog socialization podcast might be the perfect excuse for a new iPod. Walter and Tara’s podcast is an example of what the folks at Apple are calling enhanced podcasts: podcasts organised into "…chapters that display intermittent pictures and web links as your audience listens."

MAKE magazine's Phillip Torrone explains how to make enhanced podcasts. Take a listen to (or should that be a look at) Phillip’s example. You don’t need an iPod; simply download the 1.7 MB MP4 file and drag it into iTunes 4.9. (Make sure song artwork is set to show in the lower left-hand pane of the iTunes window.)

This technique also enhances the educational appeal of podcasts. Complementary pictures and web links add to the instructional value of the audio, while dividing the podcast into chapters and the relatively low bandwidth (Phillip’s example weighed in at a reasonable 0.7 MB/min) increase accessibility.

As Bud points out, screencasting is podcasting, but with pictures. Now that podcasts have been enhanced to support pictures, what's the difference?

Update: Although enhancing podcasts remains the domain of those of us with Macs, it has become considerably simpler with the release of this nice GUI for Apple's Chapter Tool utility.