How Fun is Podcasting?!
November 26, 2008
jtzunum
I have known about podcasting for about 2 years or so. An ex boyfriend turned me over to them. I at first thought it was some weird MAC thing he was into. No clue till we started listening to podcasts from NPR and WNYC’s Radio Lab. I fell in love!!! How cool is it that you can access this for FREE with literally no real effort. I for one like listening to other peoples views and learning about what other people may not talk about much. It’s better than a radio for me. I often don’t get signal and often miss the timings. For me it’s easy to just type in an address and find the subject or channel I want to tune in to.
One web site compared it to a TiVo. I never really looked at it but it makes sense. Which brings me to my next point. Seeing as how I never really payed attention to RSS Feeds before this class, I never thought to get a feed for podcasts. WHAT?! That blows my mind. I only wish I could find the USB to my iPod now. It somehow got lost along with the ear plugs. Both which I believe are stuck at my ex’s house so I have lost hope in retrieving them!! Ha.
Moving on, I love the thought of learning of what I want, when I want, where I want. I can basically take the podcasts with me wherever I want and use them in which ever way I choose. The more recent upgrades are vodcasts and screencasts. Both of which I had never heard of. Vodcasting makes a lot of sense to me. Reminds me of You Tube. Plenty of people do it, just hasn’t gotten around as fast I imagine. Or at least from what I see it hasn’t. I for one don’t have a decent enough webcam to record such casts for that matter. I did learn a new word though. Podcatcher is another word for aggregator… its the same thing only its more specific to podcasts. Tah-dah.
Screencasting is the newer but simpler concepts. It’s not new and it reminds me of a “how to” idea. A screen showing what the narration is saying. Basically it just shows what it says in its name. I’m sure there are more ideas for it, although none of which I found to be useful or even interesting. I think its pretty simple. Nothing more to add to that for now. I guess I need to explore it more.
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Katie | November 30, 2008 at 8:15 am
So let say if I really needed to know something and pod/vodcasting was the only way, forget it. Information works better for me. I won’t even remember if I listened or watched a pod/vodcast. Which is why I don’t bother with them in the first place.
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sagustine | December 1, 2008 at 9:40 am
Certainly that I learn more about podcasting and vodcasting from your blog. I didn’t even know that they compare it with Tivo. It would be a good idea for designer to put their presentation and their portfolio in vodcast. The potential employer would be just subcribe with RSS feed.
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Ashley Bloss | December 2, 2008 at 9:50 am
Well I definitely learned something new! I didn’t know that Podcatcher was another word for aggregator, definitely need to work with that key word a bit more.
Podcasts can be used for just about anything! It’s amazing that is hasn’t caught on as much as YouTube has yet.
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mariam8099 | December 2, 2008 at 5:45 pm
if ya like it or not that your choice but for me love it i heard teaches used to use it for there classes the whole letcure was put on podcast & students loved it plus like you can see tv show, music vid etc so many uses dont know what to chose lol