I am one of the thousands of newbie in blogging media. But slowly I am making a progress.
Imagine my embarrassment yesterday, when my son who thinks big of me, queried me, ”Mom, why don’t you podcast your daily lecture?” I begged him to give me an hour or so, which I thought would be sufficient to search the ever friendly internet, compile some information to satisfy him.
He went away with a smirk in his face and I tapped my keyboard.
What's a podcast?
It is like sharing audio through internet.
Imagine setting up your own audio broadcast, where you can easily record voice messages, mix in your favorite music, and share it all for the world to hear.
You can also call it an audio journal.
Ok, now how will you exactly share it?
You can share it through RSS feed. This sharing or distributing through web feed is called podcasting.
Utility of Podcast:
Teachers can create podcast of lectures for their students.
Share your favourite music with the rest of the world.
You can also replay a radio broadcast to those who missed it live.
Podiobooks:
This a series of audiobooks presented through podcast feeds. They are available for free.
We know how difficult it is to tune into distant radio stations. Now if you go to
http://www.publicradiofan.com/podcasts.html , you can find program listings for hundreds of public radio stations around the world. Audio links are provided there, and all you have to do is just click on the link of your choice.
This site contain over 650 podcasts.
Can an unskilled person like me…?
Sure, this process of creating a podcast is made user friendly by http://evoca.com
They teach you how to:
*Post audio to your blog using your phone
*Add voice to your online profiles
*Search spoken words and meet new people
*Use Skype™ to record journal entries
*Form an Evoca group - share your cause
*Record family stories for posterity
If your PC has a microphone, Evoca facilitates direct audio recording from your browser.
You will have to sign up with the service first. You can start recording the content by pressing the 'Your computer microphone' button.
When completed, you can save it on to Evoca. While saving the audio content, you can tag it with an appropriate label and designate it public or private. The service allows you to access the public audio hosted by other members.
They also sign a web page with the URL: http://evoca.com/xxxx( xxxx is your username)
When someone visit your web page,they can access your "public'' content.
Besides the web URL, Evoca offers a web or podcast feed, which can be used by your clients for accessing the content made public, in their podcast client.
MP3 file:
One more podcast publishing service, is Podomatic.
This also allows you to record live from your browser and store it on its server as an MP3 file. It also provides an RSS feed for your recordings. When you sign up with the service, you get a web page (http://your-log-in-name.podomatic.com), from where anyone on the Net can listen/download your audio content. Podmail, the facility to send voice messages, is an additional feature of this service.
Today, I called up a techinical help to create my first podcast. I promise to blog here about my attempt.
Information source: "The Hindu"
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Do you know Podcasting?
Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio programs or music videos, over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. The distribution format of a podcast uses either the RSS or Atom syndication formats.
Podcasting's essence is about creating content (audio or video) for an audience that wants to listen or watch when they want, where they want, and how they want.
The term podcast, like "radio", can mean both the content and the method of delivery. The host or author of a podcast is often referred to as a "podcaster".
Podcasters' web sites may also offer direct download or streaming of their files, however a podcast is distinguished by its ability to be downloaded automatically using software capable of reading RSS or Atom feeds.
Neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or other portable player, and no over-the-air broadcasting is required.
Podcasting as a medium was first associated with, but never limited to, audio data. As use of RSS enclosures for video spread in 2005, podcasting of video data was called, among other things, "video blogging", "video podcasting", "vidcasting", "vlogging", "vodcasting", or "videocasting".
Podcasting is an automatic mechanism by which multimedia computer files are transferred from a server to a client, which pulls down XML files containing the Internet addresses of the media files. In general, these files contain audio or video but also could be images, text, PDF, or any file type.
The content provider begins by making a file (for example, an MP3 audio file) available on the Internet. This is usually done by posting the file on a publicly-available webserver; however, BitTorrent trackers also have been used, and it is not technically necessary that the file be publicly accessible. The only requirement is that the file be accessible through some known URI (a general-purpose Internet address). This file is often referred to as one episode of a podcast.
The content provider then acknowledges the existence of that file by referencing it in another file known as the feed. The feed is a machine-readable list of the URIs by which episodes of the show may be accessed.
This list is usually published in RSS format (although Atom can also be used), which provides other information, such as publish dates, titles, and accompanying text descriptions of the series and each of its episodes.
The feed may contain entries for all episodes in the series, but is typically limited to a short list of the most recent episodes, as is the case with many news feeds. Standard podcasts consist of a feed from one author. More recently multiple authors have been able to contribute episodes to a single podcast feed using concepts such as public podcasting and social podcasting.
The content provider posts the feed to a known location on a webserver. (Unlike the episode file itself, the feed is published to a webserver, usually not by other means.) The location at which the feed is posted is expected to be permanent. This location is known as the feed URI (or, perhaps more often, feed URL). The content provider makes this feed URI known to the intended audience.
A consumer enters this feed URI into a software program called a podcatcher or aggregator (the former term is specific to podcasting while the latter is general to all programs which collect news from feeds). This program retrieves and processes data from the feed URI.
Podcasting's essence is about creating content (audio or video) for an audience that wants to listen or watch when they want, where they want, and how they want.
The term podcast, like "radio", can mean both the content and the method of delivery. The host or author of a podcast is often referred to as a "podcaster".
Podcasters' web sites may also offer direct download or streaming of their files, however a podcast is distinguished by its ability to be downloaded automatically using software capable of reading RSS or Atom feeds.
Neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or other portable player, and no over-the-air broadcasting is required.
Podcasting as a medium was first associated with, but never limited to, audio data. As use of RSS enclosures for video spread in 2005, podcasting of video data was called, among other things, "video blogging", "video podcasting", "vidcasting", "vlogging", "vodcasting", or "videocasting".
Podcasting is an automatic mechanism by which multimedia computer files are transferred from a server to a client, which pulls down XML files containing the Internet addresses of the media files. In general, these files contain audio or video but also could be images, text, PDF, or any file type.
The content provider begins by making a file (for example, an MP3 audio file) available on the Internet. This is usually done by posting the file on a publicly-available webserver; however, BitTorrent trackers also have been used, and it is not technically necessary that the file be publicly accessible. The only requirement is that the file be accessible through some known URI (a general-purpose Internet address). This file is often referred to as one episode of a podcast.
The content provider then acknowledges the existence of that file by referencing it in another file known as the feed. The feed is a machine-readable list of the URIs by which episodes of the show may be accessed.
This list is usually published in RSS format (although Atom can also be used), which provides other information, such as publish dates, titles, and accompanying text descriptions of the series and each of its episodes.
The feed may contain entries for all episodes in the series, but is typically limited to a short list of the most recent episodes, as is the case with many news feeds. Standard podcasts consist of a feed from one author. More recently multiple authors have been able to contribute episodes to a single podcast feed using concepts such as public podcasting and social podcasting.
The content provider posts the feed to a known location on a webserver. (Unlike the episode file itself, the feed is published to a webserver, usually not by other means.) The location at which the feed is posted is expected to be permanent. This location is known as the feed URI (or, perhaps more often, feed URL). The content provider makes this feed URI known to the intended audience.
A consumer enters this feed URI into a software program called a podcatcher or aggregator (the former term is specific to podcasting while the latter is general to all programs which collect news from feeds). This program retrieves and processes data from the feed URI.
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