What is Podcast?
So I’ve been hearing a lot lately that many people don’t know what podcast is, so if anyone types on Google “What is Podcast”, I want to give my two cents of the story. This is not about how to podcast but about what is a podcast, a concept that everyone in podcasting knows for sure and current listeners understand. For new listeners, here is the breakdown; a podcast is like a radio show. Unlike a radio show, you control when you listen to it, you can pause it, and you can follow your favorites shows by subscribing to their show feed.
Talking about feed, I’ve also heard some people asking what is a feed. Here is a short, short explanation, a website feed or podcast feed is some code that allows you to subscribe to a show or blog or any other web source using a reader. And, a reader could be a web based or software based for your computer, and it allows you to manage your feeds subscriptions.
Back to podcasts, there are numerous sources of podcast directories that allow you to subscribe to podcast for free and even manage them from the same interface. The most popular one right now is iTunes; there is a whole section in iTunes with podcast that are updated fairly frequently. You can find talk shows know as podcast and also vidcast or mediacast, which is the same idea but video based. There is even screen cast, which is a talk show like podcast but with frames of photos or screenshots used often for tutorials or for artist to show their work.
But you should know that iTunes is just one of the podcatchers available, there is also Yahoo Podcast, Podcast Alley, and Podcast Ready just mention a few. It is important to not that while the word podcast can make you think about an iPod you DO NOT need an iPod to listen to podcasts. Many Podcasters make their podcast available on many different formats to make sure that everyone is covered, whether you have an iPod or not. For vidcast and screencast you will need a device ready for video files or just watch then over your computer.
There are many classifications or categories for podcast, like Arts, Business, Comedy, Health, Music, and my favorite Technology. Since I like so much my Mac, I searched and found over 10 podcast about Macintosh, also there are a lot of podcast about Windows, video making, photography, you name it. I have learned a lot from this podcast so you can consider them educational, there are motivational and marketing podcast that are great too.
Whatever your interest are you can find a podcast about it, there is even news channel and important people like senators and other that have their own show too. So that was it, hopefully that summarizes it what a podcast is, if I got anything wrong, missed anything, you want to add something feel free to do that in the comments or email me for corrections at lumencreativegroup (at) gmail.com. Thanks.
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