A new kid on the Internet block is the Podcast. It has gotten a lot of attention lately, but the majority of people have no idea what a Podcast, or podcasting, is. Many assume that it must have something to do with iPods (only partly true), and so must have something to do with the Order of the Apple (not true at all).

In reality, Podcasting has evolved to be a fancy name for creating an audio file, usually in MP3 format, and making that available as a content “broadcast” (hence the “cast” in Podcast), to subscribers on the Internet. Once you download the file, you listen to it on an MP3 playing device, such as (but not limited to) an iPod (hence the “Pod” in Podcast).

If you are at all familiar with blogs, and particulary with the concept of an RSS feed for a blog, think about a blog entry which is a recorded speech, rather than written text. And rather than your regular RSS reader retrieving the blog entry, a special…

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