Looking to learn more about podcasting? This article will point you to some links around the web where you can learn more about podcasting. Our own articles on Podcasting are also a good place to learn more about the subject.
What is Podcasting?
Jon Gordon has posted a succinct definition of podcasting:
A podcast is a talk or music radio show that's sent directly to an iPod or other digital music player through your computer. It's a new take on the growing technology called RSS that pushes text-based Web content to computers. But with podcasting, a listener subscribes to audio feeds.
Other definitions:
- Dave Winer offers his definition
- Make Room for Podcasting is a nice summary of the phenomenon of Podcasting.
- The Wikipedia's definition of Podcasting.
How to Create Podcasts
Mac OS X users looking to learn how to create a podcast should check out Hugo Schotman's article that started Mac users podcasting: Audio Blog software studio setup, complete with a system diagram. Engadget documented an alternative technique for creating a podcast in Mac OS X.
Zef Hemel shows us Howto Create Your Own Podcasting Show On Windows. Jake Ludington offers detailed instructions on receiving podcasts in Windows and synching with non-iPod portable media players using Windows Media Player.
Finding Podcasts
audio.weblogs.com is where you'll find recent podcasts for downloading. Podcast.net is a directory of podcasts.
Adam Curry is creating a directory of podcasting related information, as well as the Daily Source Code podcast.
OpenPodcast.org is a dynamically generated podcast containing short, 5 minute podcasts, to which anyone can contribute.
Further Reading
How Podcasting Will Save Radio is a must read by Tod Maffin.
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