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Podcasting?

January 16, 2005

A friend and veteran ‘blogger’ has been urging me to get into this podcasting thing as a new
way to promote music I like to a wider audience.  I’m not sure
it’s something I can invest time into now, but it’s worth checking
out.  For those of you that have no clue what I’m talking about,
no worries, I rarely know what I ‘m talking about.  Here’s the
lowdown:  Podcasting is the same as “broadcasting” a radio
show.  You can use your ipod to import a news show you’ve created
and then upload it to your blog that lists the shows and their content.  What
makes this thing unique is that you can give your podcast it’s own RSS
address so that your listeners can get updates through their RSS Readers, download your shows and listen to them whenever. 
NPR and smaller organizations have been experimenting with this idea
and it’s slowly gaining favor. 

Here’s a list of podcasts you
could listen to right now as a quicktime feed or investigate further on
how to subscribe to it through your RSS reader (I use the fantastic OS
X provider, NetNewsWire–they offer a decent free trial).

If you have no clue what I’m talking about go here or here for a better description.
For those of you ready to check out some podcasts, go to these places:

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