This is for Marie and all others interested.
"
Podcasting" is making audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) available
online in a way that allows software to automatically download the files
for
listening
at the user's convenience.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast -
Now the definition is out of the way let me try and expound the concept.
Why the word podcast?
The term Podcast came about through the Apple mp3 players, Ipods.
Because
alot of people where downloading their favourite shows mp3s, from the
show
archives and storing them on their Ipod for portible listening.
Podcasting is like online radio. With one massive advantage. Rather
than
listening to a stream it's available when you want to listen to it.
There are literlly thousands of Podcasts or shows online now and it's
growing each day. The last figures I heard in June was just over 10,300.
There's hundreds of catagorys from tech, cooking, politics, history,
books,
science, you name it.
How do you get and explore all this yummy content?
First thing you need is a podcast agragator, or more simply a program to
download your shows and allow you to explore what shows are available.
The most popular one both in the mainstream and VI communitys appears to
be
www.ipodder.org
This was written I believe by Adam Curry who's been dubbed the Father of
Podcasting. He's an American living in a little cottage with his wife
and
kids in England. I subscribe to one of his shows the daily source code.
Oh I just used a term there that I havent' mentioned, Subscribe.
Subscribing, who wha? Does it cost money? Do I give any personal info?
The term subscribing is simply a way of your podcast client managing what
podcasts, shows, or feeds you wish to recieve. you don't pay anything at
the moment for any of the shows. Although like everything it will come.
Places will offer quote premium content" And honestly I can partly
understand why, it's a massive drain on bandwidth.
And no you don't subscribe online you simply put the podcasts address
into
your feed grabber.
Where do I get them from?
Google podcast and you'll come up with loads!
Also I can only speak for the ipodder, it has a tab called directory that
allows you to search through a host of podcasts and you simply hit enter
on
each one you want to subscribe to.
Here are a few of my favourite shows I listen too's addresses. Simply
copy
and paste the addresses into yoru feeder to subscribe.
Web Talk Radio
http://webtalkradio.com/rss2gen.xml
Adam Curry - Daily Source Code
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml
Cooking on the Radio with Jeff Nemcher
http://cookingontheradio.com/rss.xml
The Geekcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/geekcast
This Week in tech
http://feeds.feedburner.com/twit
The le-port Report
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tlr
IT Conversations All Podcasts
http://www.itconversations.com/rss/recentWithEnclosures.php
Security Now
http://leo.users.sonic.net/sn.xml
I'm also subscribed to alot if not all of the ABC and MSNBC, and BBC news
feeds plus lots of others. I often delete and add new podcasts but these
are ones I'm definately sticking with.
Want to know what they are all about above? Add them, google them,
listen
to them, smiles. This is part of the fun of podcasting finding out what
shows are out there, subscribing if they look interesting, ditchign them
if
they end up not being and moving on.
I've deliberately used different terms that all refer to podcasting in
this
email, feeds, feed reader, podcast grabber, feed grabber etc to
familiarise
you with he different terms.
I hope this is of some help.
Dj Paddy
"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion."
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