Podcasts

Podcasts are audio files created to be distributed over the Internet. They’re available for free and usually encoded in MP3 format. But the cool part is the way they get to you. With the right software, you can subscribe to podcasts and have new shows downloaded automatically (and even transferred to your iPod) while you sleep. The key technology behind delivering podcasts is RSS (originally //RDF Site Summary//, but now commonly known as //Really Simple Syndication// ). This is a format most commonly used for delivering summaries (or feeds) of news stories, but thanks to an enclosure element in RSS, you can attach audio files to these feeds as well. An RSS aggregator downloads feeds that you subscribe to. Once you tell the aggregator where you want content from, it searches on a regular basis for updates and downloads what it finds for you. You can then browse the content at your leisure." [|Gowan](2005)
 * What are Podcasts? **

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I really liked this description. It gives a really good overview of podcasting.

media type="custom" key="3938127" Gowan, M. (2005) [|Podcasting: Hear What the Buzz Is About] Macworld Jan 25, 200 5
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