Podcasting: Internet Radio On Demand... and MORE!

Written by Jim Edwards


If you haven't heardrepparttar term "podcast" yet, you will.

It's about to blowrepparttar 105713 world of online audio throughrepparttar 105714 roof as every Tom, Dick and Shirley can now operate a high powered Internet Radio station providing on-demand audio (and shortly, video) with nothing more than a microphone, simple software, and a little imagination.

Just like cable TV inrepparttar 105715 1980's gave smaller networks and individuals a voice on television, podcasting gives individuals a voice (literally) through online audio.

Podcasting is actuallyrepparttar 105716 audio form of "blogging," where individuals share their thoughts in writing over time on a dynamic webpage known as a "blog."

With blogging, subscribers and other blog publishers subscribe to and cross promote each other's content by linking to and writing about each other.

With podcasting,repparttar 105717 author shares his or her thoughts in audio form (MP3) and subscribers download and listen torepparttar 105718 audio either on their computers, burnrepparttar 105719 files to CD, or transferrepparttar 105720 files to one ofrepparttar 105721 increasingly popular portable MP3 players.

In fact,repparttar 105722 term "podcasting" draws its name fromrepparttar 105723 iPod, created by Apple Computers.

Initially you might thinkrepparttar 105724 only people podcasting are geeks and computer nerds, but that's notrepparttar 105725 case.

If you imagine "talk radio" meets "free cable access" then you have and idea of what pocasting is now and how it could evolve inrepparttar 105726 future.

Right now, any idiot (like me) with a microphone and something to say can create an online radio show.

This type of access to media that reaches a world-wide market enables smaller, niche publishers to develop a world-wide following that just isn't monetarily feasible in traditional mass-media.

That means talk shows like "Chihuahua Breeding" or "Motorcycle Fashion Weekly" that could never hope to afford air time in a local market, can now develop an audience onrepparttar 105727 Internet.


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