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How To Create a Podcast
Simply put a podcast is a file that is downloaded from the internet in either audio or video format that people then watch or listen to on their computers or download to mp3 players or other mobile devices. The name podcast actually originates from the fact many people download these files to their iPods.
These files are made by both amateurs and professionals; to be listened to or watched by anyone interested enough in the subject matter to download it.
Podcasts are an evolution of blogging, where anyone can publish their own written content to the internet expressing their views, opinions or interests to the world. Podcasts are a way of expressing these same views in an audio or audio and video format. Podcasts are like internet radio shows, or television segments.
Podcasts (especially audio podcasts) are very easy for an amateur to produce and upload to the internet. The basic requirement is the ability to record your content as an MP3 file. This file is then uploaded to the internet using code called RSS (or Real Simple Syndication.) This RSS code contains enclosures; basically URL references to the web content. When someone clicks to download the podcast the RSS code points to the URL address of the podcast and it can then be automatically synced (synchronized) to the listener’s portable device or podcast aggregator. (The former MTV media entrepreneur Adam Curry was the creator of some Apple application script which enables automation of the downloading and syncing of audio files to Apple’s IPod range.)
As previously stated creating and publishing podcasts is extremely easy, firstly you record your content in MP3 format and post this file to a web server. The second step is to create and publish the RSS file. This RSS file as well as containing the URL enclosure (the address of the podcast’s location on the net) will also include Meta information about the file such as its title and a description.
The final two steps move to the consumer. The third step in the process is that the listener will search for the new content and either download it manually or have their podcast aggregator (a programme that manages podcasts a person is subscribed to), search for it and download it automatically. (Many podcasters post messages to the web in serial or episode format like a newsfeed or old time radio serial.) The final convenient step is that the listener can now listen to the broadcast on any computer or portable device that plays MP3’s when it suits them.
In summary podcasts are new medium that allows everyone to publish or listen to content that interests them simply, easily and conveniently.
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Frédéric, editor-in-chief of ParisByPod.com |
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