Podcasting - The New Revolution Of Cool?
Published October 27, 2004
Podcasting also offers established personalities broadcasting on traditional radio stations the chance to expose their programming to a larger audience. If you are a morning show, you can share your hijinks and humor with the world via podcasting. Even Al Franken has gotten in on the action with a podcast of his daily show sourced from his regular daily Air America broadcast.
Curry does an excellent daily radio show called The Daily Source Code that focuses on his daily happenings, and also the latest podcasting developments, and audio samplings from the latest podcasts that he has been checking out.
One of the things that I immediately dug is how Curry receives audio comments from the people that are listening to his show, which he uses within the show. It's a great no-brainer - as a listener, you record a quick audio comment using your audio software of choice. I think you can even do it with Skype, but that's a whole different story. I'm still learning about this stuff! Two weeks ago, I was still scratching my head, trying to figure out what the hell Skype was!
It's not surprising, but not everyone is a fan of podcasting. And the lone critic that I have seen so far, was a surprising one: John Dvorak from PC Magazine, had this to say about podcasting. I can't believe that he totally missed the boat on what podcasting is all about. He just doesn't get it. There was a pretty good rebuttal that I saw on a blog last night in response to Dvorak, but I can't seem to dig it up at the moment. Oh well, I guess you can't expect your message to properly reach everyone.
Anyway - how do you listen to this stuff? Simple: Grab and install Ipodder.
Find something that you want to listen to
Open up Ipodder, and add a feed to the list of feeds that you are subscribed to. The feed will look something like this:
http://www.walgran.com/aar-af.xml
or this
http://www.themetalshow.com/podcast/metalshow.php
Hit the button to check for new feeds, and the new audio should begin downloading to your computer. Upon completion, the program will launch Itunes if you have it installed on your computer, and you will find your new audio added to the playlist.
If you should want to find the physical file that has been downloaded, you can find that by going to Program Files/Ipodder/Downloads on your main hard drive(that is me, speaking as a Windows user, not sure where the downloads would go for a Mac user.)
- Podcasting - The New Revolution Of Cool?
- Published: October 27, 2004
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- Writer: Matt Wardlaw
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Doug,
Who is this Eric Olson guy? Never heard of him!
Just kidding!
Do you have a link handy for Feedburner?
I am loving podcasting, and look forward to seeing what kind of reaction I get as I enter the realm of podcasting!
great job Matt, and thanks for the plug Doug! Thanks
So, you are going to buy an iPod, now, right? The latest and greatest was released yesterday. Meet the iPod Photo.
Not sure about that, but I am definitely leaning towards getting one, one of these days!
Matt you probably saw the answers in Doug Kaye's blog:
http://www.rds.com/blogs/doug/index.php/archives/2004/10/25/john-c-dvorak-trashes-podcasting-and-it-conversations/
hth
Nicole
Nicole,
not sure that was the one, but that's a good one to link to here.
It's just funny to see someone who's reading I have respected in the past, come out and just blast podcasting. It was unexpected, to say the least.
I think that's what I enjoy about blogs, is an immediate reaction, like that reaction posted about the PC Magazine interview.
Thanks for posting that!
I've started podcasting and it's better than sliced bread. I do think it is here to stay. Podcasting is in it's infancy and is still growing.
http://www.bibbsrevenge.com/index.php?cat=6
is where my podcast resides. I will be sure to check yours out.
Gary,
I'm digging the cast! Others should definitely check it out - add Gary's feed to your list:
http://www.bibbsrevenge.com/wp-rss2.php?category_name=podcast
I'll be linking to your show on my site as well, first with a note on the site, and then hopefully with a proper links section later!
Matt;
Very interesting article about a hot topic. I was wondering if I could get your permission to reproduce it in an IT technology newsletter that I edit.
Do contact me, if you have a minute!
Consumer interest in podcasting is growing. At present, around 22 million people in the United States own iPods or other MP3 players (Rainie and Madden, 2005). Around six million of these people have downloaded podcasts and podcasting is expected to reach 12.3 million households by 2010 (Rainie and Madden, 2005; Forrester Research, 2005).
Podcasting Articles:
http://www.ezinegalaxy.com/podcasting/index.html
I've started podcasting and it's better than sliced bread. I do think it is here to stay. Podcasting is in it's infancy and is still growing.
Johny
[Deleted link. It was a broken link Johny. Comments Editor.]
And a repeat of an Oct 2004 comment so can be deleted. And this one too.
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Oh!!! Podcasting. Actually there is a podcasted show with Eric Olsen creator of Blogcritics.org. Podcasting is the wave of the future.
Podcasting on your own is so EASY! Feedburner as launched an arm allowing you to make your own podcast.