Podcasting Revisited

We’ve written about podcasting before and since it is an emerging technological trend, we’re writing about it again. The word “podcast” emanates from Apple’s iPod music player but it does not require an iPod to participate. The term podcasting describes the act of recording an audio file on your computer and then posting it on the Internet so that others may listen to it. They can download it to an iPod and listen to it as they would music, or they can listen to it right on their computer as it streams from the Internet. The attraction of podcasting is that for very little money and time, anyone can create the equivalent of a radio program about any topic imaginable. While podcasts certainly don’t have the reach of 50,000 watt WBZ radio, they do allow a type of very precise specialization that would never work for commercial radio. We’ve experimented with a type of podcasting with our short audio snippets about the registry, but full scale podcasting may not be far behind. In the meantime, here are some online directories with links to thousands of podcasts. We haven’t screened everyone of them so we’re not attesting to the quality or content, but it might we worth exploring if you have a chance.
Podcast.net (www.podcast.net) - Podcasting News (podcastingnews.com) - Podcast Alley (www.podcastalley.com) and iPodder.org (www.ipodder.org).