No seriously, I did all the stuff for the free ipod deal going around, and i finally got mine. It took them a while to approve it, but once it was approved, it arrived almost immediately.
Oh, and i’m loving it — i just wish there was an easier way to put contacts / todo lists / calendar on the ipod (ie, without turning hard disk mode on) — just a program that could do it for you.
Anyway, I’ve been doing the whole podcasting thing, which is really interesting — i think it’ll be even cooler when we can embed images in podcasts — well — it really doesnt apply to just images, i suppose you could just package a lot of media together in one file, and then give the player instructions on what to do.
Embed photos, music, video, whatever. Some of it might be meant to be seen during the “regular” listening of the show, some of it might be a separate audio track, it might be show notes, track lists, links to webpages, whatever. You’d be able to listen\view the content as normal, but with a special player (maybe when you get back to your desktop) — you can go through and get all the meta-media that your ipod couldn’t play.
I know SMIL could be used to further this idea, but it might be a stretch to get apple to support that. I’ll have to ponder this some more.