About

The word Huffduffer derives from a technology called Huff-Duff that was used to triangulate the position of radio transmissions. Huffduffing on the web is a way of pin-pointing interesting MP3 files.

Here’s how it works:

1. You find an MP3 that you’d like to share with the world.
2. Use the handy Huffduff it bookmarklet or huffduff it directly on the site.
3. That file is now added to your podcast.

Let me show you an example:

• here’s my profile on Huffduffer and
• here’s my podcast that you can subscribe to.

When you are huffduffing an audio file, you can “tag” it with key words or phrases. Separate tags with spaces or commas; whichever you prefer. Tagging files like this makes it easier to find related files that other people have huffduffed.

A separate podcast is created for every tag you use. For example:

• here’s everything I’ve tagged with “science fiction” and
• here’s the podcast of everything I’ve tagged with “science fiction”.

Tags are also a useful way of finding interesting stuff that other people have huffduffed. For example:

• here’s everything tagged with “design” and
• here’s the podcast of everything tagged with “design”.

If you want to drink from the firehose:

• here’s the newest huffduffed stuff and
• here’s the podcast of the newest huffduffed stuff.

Pretty much every page on huffduffer.com has a corresponding podcast so you can subscribe to whichever ones interest you.