Podcasting

Podcasting is the new audio cousin of weblogs, which allows individuals to publish (podcast) their own DIY radio shows. Consumers can download shows to their MP3 players and time-shift their listening to when it suits them.  Using RSS feeds, podcasters can automatically send out their minicasts to a list of subscribers and in that way build an audience as ex-MTV VJ Adam Curry has done.

Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion has written this article describing how quickly podcasting is taking grip in the US.  He notes that Podcast alley now offers more than 500 podcasts in its listing and that despite being mainly amateurs trying their hand, the big boys including the BBC have started to join in.

Digital consumers march on!

Comments

[Charlie Quidnunc]

Try the Podcast Bunker for more listings, plus 30 second samples of a selected set of work-safe podcasts. http://www.podcastbunker.com

Or mine at http://ripnread.blogspot.com political readings from the blogosphere, with a conservative perspective.

Charlie

[Jon Wright]

You could also list my reference to Podcasting as well at http://www.jon-wright.co.uk/podcasting/index.htm