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A Podcast By Any Other Name ?
A Podcast By Any Other Name ?
As subsets of specialized podcasts become more popular you may hear or come across these and maybe more.
Autocasting automatic generation of podcasts from text
Godcasting religious podcasts
Javacast podcasting to mobile phones using J2ME Midlets
Learncasting delivering instructional content by RSS
Media RSS media file syndication used by Yahoo!
Mobilecasting podcasting to mobile phones
Palmcasting podcasting to Palm OS based devices
Punchcasting punching podcasts directly into smartphones.
Skypecasting recording Skype text voice or video conversations
Soundseeing tours podcast of the museum tour variety
Vodcasting or Vidcasting podcasts using video
Podcatching and Listening to PodcastsOK so where do I find some cool podcasts to listen to?Podcasts are generally resident’ as URLs; uniform resource locators’ which means effectively they simply live on or arguably are Web pages.
But there is nothing to obviously distinguish a Webpage that is or contains apodcast from one that doesn’t any more than a URL will tell whether a page is a store a photo gallery or only text. Since podcasts are not yet .everywhere you may wonder how to get started listening to them where to find them what hardware and software you might need or want and so forth.
The short answer is that to listen you don’t need any special software other than a program capable of playing mp3 formats such as Windows Media Player on your computer. You do need special software to find download and organize your subscription feeds.A whole class of podcastoriented software has been developed and if you are not planning to use an iPod and limit yourself to the oneclick options available for synchronized download from iTunes itself you may want to look into this.
The category of software is sometimes called a podcatcher’ but increasingly the more generic receiver is in use and often the software is called a retriever it does just what it sounds like!Retriever’ softwareAs subsets of specialized podcasts become more popular you may hear or come across these and maybe more.
This software is designed to allow the podcast feed’ to be directly downloaded usually automatically with parameters you set to your PC or other listening device.All of these software types are basically aggregators which is the opposite of syndication’. Syndication is the distribution of material to various channels.Aggregation is the retrieval of material from various channels.Many podcasts require subscriptions some charge some don’t in order to be able to download and listen to any single entry or episode. If so the retriever / receiver software can be set up to accept all of your subscriptions which in most cases is as easy as dragging and dropping in a list and then you can choose among the titles and episodes as you would choose among songs on a CD or mp3 player.
If particular podcasts dont require subscriptions and you’re interested in finding certain content or episodes some retriever/receiver software can be set to actually search the Internet for the material you want and either download it or ask if you want it. All in all it’s a pretty cool way to get and manage this programming.
About the writer: Dave Clark has many years experience writing articles he has also written many books and is well known in the industry. Dave currently has many projects he is working on he is also on the board of directors for Cushy Sofa a manufacturer and online retailer of Memory Foam Pillows Memory Foam Sofas Memory Foam Toppers Buy your Memory Foam Sofa Beds direct from the manufacturer
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