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Like the blogging phenomenon, podcasting is now growing
in popularity. It is a new twist and an exciting innovation of the digital
media. So, what is podcasting? Podcasting is a method of publishing sound
files such as audio programs or music video over the Internet for playback
on personal computer, mobile devices or via an MP3 player. It is similar
to broadcasting where the radio hosts or deejay create the files and
publish them to the web and users will be able to download the file to
the computer by using a special software. Podcasting is distributed by
using RSS protocol.
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| " Podcasting allows
users to catch up on audio content online or offline collected from
a variety of sources" |
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The term podcasting is derived from a combination
of two words, 'iPod' and 'broadcasting'. However, to create and
listen to a podcast, an Ipod is not needed, whereas it can be listened
to on any device capable of playing the media files.
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Podcasting allows users to catch up on audio
content online or offline collected from a variety of sources.
With podcasting, users can decide what program they want to receive
and when they want to listen to it. In contrast, broadcasting only
uses one source of a time and the time of broadcasting needed to
be specified. Streaming files do not need time restriction but
the user needs to be connected to the internet while playing the
files whereas podcasting has the ability to aggregate program from
a variety of sources and can be used for offline listening.
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Steps to make and receive podcasts:
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Create audio content
This can be any kind of audio content, like spoken commentary,
news, presentations, music or language lessons and others.
The content is then saved in the digital audio file and
the file format should be able to be read by any of the
popular portable digital audio devices, for example MP3
player.
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Post and announce audio content online
In this part, websites or blog can help to access to a server
where the audio files can be stored. After the audio file
has been compressed, the file can be uploaded to the server
and attached it to a weblog posting.
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Download and listen to the audio file
Through a podcast directory or blog, users will get to know
a new audio file which have been posted and that file can
be downloaded by the user and store it on their MP3 player.
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