Podcasting Basics and Benefits

by; Tanya Testi

The top word for 2005 was “podcasting”, chosen by the New Oxford American Dictionary. According to a dictionary, podcasting is “on the Web broadcast that works with software that automatically detects new files and is available by subscription.”

There are two explanations for the etymology of the word “podcasting” One explanation is that it is a combination of “iPod” and “broadcasting” because listeners tend to start downloaded audio broadcasts to their Apple iPod MP3 devices. The other explanation is that the root of the word comes from an acronym for “personal request”, which would pod. Personnel on demand becomes broadcasting podcasting. Read the rest of this entry

Basic How-To; Podcasting

PODcasting will change our way to access audio media, from an old medium where we have to wait for what we might want to hear to a new medium that enables us to choose what we want to hear, when we want to hear it, and and share it to vereyone else that might want to hear it as well.
In simple terms, a Podcast is an audio file, most likely an MP3, in talk show format, together with a way to subscribe to the show and delivered to your iPod when you plug in to iTunes automatically. You can listen to it whenever you want. since show isn’t live, Read the rest of this entry