Monday, April 04, 2005
Posted by Roberto
9:50 AM
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PODCASTS
INTERNET RADIO SHOWS
Podcasts, the home-brewed audio programs, have grown in prominence along with Weblogs, the online diaries that serve as alternative news sources. Podcasters create radio-like programs of commentary, music or humor, which are saved in MP3 audio format and posted online. Listeners are automatically notified when a new podcast is available (generally via RSS).
According to a recent survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, conducted between February and March 2005, twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults who own MP3 players say they have downloaded podcast programs from the Internet. That means more than 6 million people are listening to a form of communication that emerged only last year.
Podcasting differs from broadcasting and webcasting in how content is transmitted; instead of a central audio stream, listeners download audio files automatically.
Podcasting differs from autocasting in content; podcasts are generally voice broadcasts, while autocasting is speech-synthesized versions of text blogs.
iPodder.org, a decentralized, categorized directory of links to podcast feeds.
- Trend Hunter
- Cool Infographics
- Information Aesthetics
- Interactive Architecture
- dataisnature
- Creative Observer
- Design Spotter
- feeladdicted
- Paleo-Future
- TechCrunch
- Trendwatching.com
- Graffiti Research Lab
- t r a n i s m
- Douwe Osinga
- AudioCubes.com
- we make money not art
- Pasta and Vinegar
- Lunch over IP
- Engadget
- Unusual News/Ideas
- CScout Trendblog
- Agenda Inc. News
- digg labs / stack
- Technorati
- Robots Dreams
- gadgetblog
- Create Digital Motion