Podcasting For Dummies
Chapter One
Getting the Scoop on Podcasting
In This Chapter
* Finding out what podcasting is
* Creating a podcast
* Finding and subscribing to podcasts
Sometimes the invention that makes the biggest impact on our daily
lives isn't an invention at all, but the convergence of existing technologies,
processes, and ideas. Podcasting may be the perfect example of that
principle - and it's changing the relationship people have with their radios,
music collections, books, education, and more.
The podcasting movement is actually a spin-off of another communications
boom: personal Weblogs, commonly referred to as blogs. Blogs sprang up
right and left, providing non-programmers and designers a clean, elegant
interface that left many on the technology side wondering why they hadn't
thought of it sooner. Everyday people could now chronicle their lives, hopes,
dreams, and fears, and show them to anyone who cared to read. And oddly
enough, people did care to read - and still do.
Podcasting combines the instant information exchange of blogging with
audio files that can be played on a computer or MP3 player. When you make
your podcast publicly available on the World Wide ... read full excerpt from Podcasting For Dummies ebook
