What+is+podcasting

A podcast is a wonderful media to express oneself over the internet. It is a pre-recorded audio or visual file that can be uploaded by means of a [|web feed]. one can express their talent, for example many music artists have used podcasting to publicize their talent over the [|Internet]. The advantage of podcasting over other medias is that it one can listen to it whenever they please. It can be directly accessed from the internet by downloading or streaming. or it can be subscribed by using softwares that are capable of reading feeds such as [|RSS] or [|ATOM], thus they can listen to it as media files are updated.
 * What is podcasting?**


 * What are the various forms of podcasting?**

General podcasting community

 * [|Autocasting] (the automatic generation of podcasts from text-only sources)
 * [|Blogcasting] (the blogging podcast)
 * [|Social media] (for other forms of consumer created content)
 * [|Streaming media]
 * [|User-generated content]

Podcasting distribution networks

 * [|Content Delivery Network] (common service for delivering podcasts)
 * [|MMS podcast] (mobile podcasting and viewing through mobile phones using MMS)
 * [|Mobilecast] (mobile podcasting and listening through mobile phones)
 * [|VoiceCast] (podcast delivery through a telephone call)

Audio podcasting

 * [|MP3 blog] (podcasting single song downloads)
 * [|Phonecasting] (creating podcasts using a phone)
 * [|Skypecasting] (different meanings: "hosting a [|skypecast] session" or "creating podcasts by recording a Skype conference call")
 * [|Webcasting] Live interactive audio

Video image podcasting
What distinguishes a podcast from other medias of broadcasting, though, is its delivery method, and that's what makes it special – you can subscribe to a podcast to get it immediately and then, when a new installment is available, the new podcast is automatically retrieved and can then be queued up for automatic transfer to your digital player. Once you've subscribed, there's nothing more you need to do. This happens through a clever technology called RSS and a software program known as a podcatcher. Apart from delivery system, what makes a podcast more interesting is that you can what makes a podcast so interesting is that a podcaster does not necessarily have to be a professional news broadcaster or a journal to be the emitter of news. anyone can be the creators of news and information and also be a consumer, whether we want to tell 5 people our news or 5000, with the help of podcasting this is possible. many musicians have used podcasting to publicize their music over the internet and to great effect. So far podcasting has been used for
 * [|Photofeed] (image podcasting)
 * [|Video podcast] vodcast - vodcasting (video podcasting)
 * [|Screencast] - screen capture video recording
 * what distinguishes podcast from other forms of broadcasting?**
 * Listen //when// you want
 * Listen //where// you want
 * why do we podcast?**


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