The best way to understand podcasting is to imagine a merger between blogging (regularly posted articles of news, insight, fun, grips, literature, and more) and radio (an established broadcasting medium that people have listened to for news and entertainment for generations).
Podcasting is essentially radio programming that can be produced with a standard computer, microphone, free software, and a web site for posting your programming.
Podcasting can be listened to with any computer connected to the Internet and able to play standard MP3 audio files.
In the purest form of the term, Podcasts are published as RSS feeds (most blogging software features RSS feed generation). Listeners are notified of new programs by their aggregators, which then download the programs and then transfer them to the listener's MP3 audio player, such as an iPod. Get it? Podcasting!
There are thousands of podcast programs available on the net, and their numbers are growing daily. Teachers, lawyers, doctors, housewives, children, and even classrooms podcast. In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen people.1
