Peep A Leaf With Your iPod — FL Sun Sentinel
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The publishers of Yankee magazine and the Old Farmer’s Almanac have married one of New England’s oldest pastimes — leaf peeping — with the newest craze in digital media: podcasting.
The first foliage podcast on the Yankee site was posted on the first day of autumn. Even with leaf season running late this year, about 15,000 people had downloaded the seven-minute report, which begins with a crunchy guitar riff from a song titled, When Fall Comes to New England, followed by a short introduction by Hall. Then the foliage forecast is delivered in a businesslike voice, not unlike the one used in a radio traffic report, except for the wailing fiddle.
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