A new website marries screencasts, blogging and vidcasts in a pretty interesting way. The site, Screencasts Online, is the brainchild of Don McAllister, who has decided to make his work available via blog and RSS feed.

In case you’re unfamiliar with a screencast, these are movies that display a computer screen while a voice narrates what’s happening on the screen. Jon Udell of InfoWorld has produced some very nifty screencasts, including one outstanding entry that explains various uses of del.icio.us.
What separates McAllister’s effort from other screencasts is the fact that it’s being produced in blog format, allowing you to subscribe via RSS to have the screencasts “delivered to your PC or Mac automatically directly into iTunes.” Very nice. McAllister’s first screencast showed how to subscribe to the screencasts using iTunes; the second “gives a quick overview on how you can use RSS to automate your web surfing and remove the tedium of manually checking websites and blogs.” McAllister notes that his screencasts will be based on Macintosh applications, but “Windows users are welcome to access the screencasts as many of the demos will be cross platform or platform independant (sic).”

Thanks to Scoble for the link.