Get into podcasting...
Talk In A Nutshell
Download itunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/), run it, on the menu to the left, select "Podcasts" and explore. You can get podcasts on virtually any topic, from music to business to IT, and mostly it is just like your basic radio (but so much more, I'll talk about its other features later).
Most importantly, do not be afraid to explore. The most exciting way to learn is by teaching yourself.
Today I'm going to introduce the readers who have been a bit on the slow side of the technology curve to podcasts. Now, of course, there are those who still wont cruise the not-so-new-anymore millennium on the IT bandwagon; I can only wish them a nice walk. (I myself used to be among the reluctant few, figuring that I really didnt need to bother with all this new stuff, but the simple fact is that, as the end of the day, it is those who *bother* to go that extra mile and keep themselves ahead of the other 6 billion that run the show (ie, drive the bandwagon).
Quote of the day: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
- Alan Kay
Podcasting is simply distributing audio/video files over the internet. Now, for those of us more technically inclined, this is done using syndication (1) . So the podcast is simply the web feed that is made availabe on the web for anybody to subscribe to (usually free, now some are charging for this subscription). The major difference between this and normal downloads(2) and streaming(3) is that the viewer can choose to access this file at the time and place most convenient to him/her.
Downloads: you click on a file on the web, and it gets transferred to your computer.
Streaming: instead of playing your audio/video from your computer, it plays *on* your computer, but behind the scenes, the computer is actually collecting the "parts" of the file as it needs them to play; this is usually slower due to time wasted in "collecting" these "parts".
Download itunes (http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/), run it, on the menu to the left, select "Podcasts" and explore. You can get podcasts on virtually any topic, from music to business to IT, and mostly it is just like your basic radio (but so much more, I'll talk about its other features later).
Most importantly, do not be afraid to explore. The most exciting way to learn is by teaching yourself.
Today I'm going to introduce the readers who have been a bit on the slow side of the technology curve to podcasts. Now, of course, there are those who still wont cruise the not-so-new-anymore millennium on the IT bandwagon; I can only wish them a nice walk. (I myself used to be among the reluctant few, figuring that I really didnt need to bother with all this new stuff, but the simple fact is that, as the end of the day, it is those who *bother* to go that extra mile and keep themselves ahead of the other 6 billion that run the show (ie, drive the bandwagon).
Quote of the day: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
- Alan Kay
Podcasting is simply distributing audio/video files over the internet. Now, for those of us more technically inclined, this is done using syndication (1) . So the podcast is simply the web feed that is made availabe on the web for anybody to subscribe to (usually free, now some are charging for this subscription). The major difference between this and normal downloads(2) and streaming(3) is that the viewer can choose to access this file at the time and place most convenient to him/her.
Downloads: you click on a file on the web, and it gets transferred to your computer.
Streaming: instead of playing your audio/video from your computer, it plays *on* your computer, but behind the scenes, the computer is actually collecting the "parts" of the file as it needs them to play; this is usually slower due to time wasted in "collecting" these "parts".
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