podcasts



podcasts By: M. Rodriguez S. Ferullo

  A **podcast** is a series of digital media files, usually digital audio or video Podcasting is the process of creating an audio show of some sort available in MP3 format via an RSS 2.0 feed that supports enclosures. Podcasts are designed to include talk shows, tutorials, music, or other audio content.  //[|Podcasting]// - A form of audio broadcasting using the Internet, podcasting takes its name from a combination of "iPod" and broadcasting Break **PODCAST** down into two parts. First the **POD**: you can either listen to a podcast on your computer or transfer it to your portable audio/video device, which means that file is **P**ortable, and it’s **O**n-**D**emand because you can listen to or watch it when you want, where you want. The **CAST** means the file is sent out to you over the Internet, in the way a “broadcast” comes to you over the radio or TV airwaves. But instead of using a radio or TV, with podcasts you use a computer connected to the Internet, and on that computer you have a program that allows you to subscribe to, manage, and listen to or watch your favorite podcasts.

media type="youtube" key="-hrBbczS9I0" height="344" width="425" Podcasting is the start of a new media content revolution that is empowering individuals with the ability to globally distribute their ideas and create a following of like minded fans. It is impacting traditional industries such as journalism, education and entertainment allowing anyone to freely create and distribute news and media.
 * [|Podcasting and the Future]**

 And this is only the beginning. Videocasting, the big brother of podcasting, is the next step allowing individuals to create their own video content for the world to hear AND see. Over time television, radio and the Internet will merge into one channel of content distribution that will provide an unheard of level of personalisation delivered on demand in real time or timeshifted. For today, have some fun, download a podcast or record your own and become the next Internet star. Yaro Starak Podcaster

Like the term broadcast //podcast// can refer either to the content itself or to the method by which the content is syndicated

The term is a //portmanteau// of the words "iPod" and "broadcast"

  On Feb 5, 2005, Shae Spencer Management LLC ofFairport, New York, filed a trademark application to register PODCAST for an "online prerecorded radio program over the internet".

On September 26 ,2006 it was reported that Apple Computer started to crack down on businesses using the acronym "//POD//", in product and company names. Apple sent a cease-and-desist order that week to Podcast Ready, Inc., which markets an application known as "myPodder". Lawyers for Apple contended allegedly that the term "pod" has been used by the public to refer to Apple's music player so extensively that it falls under Apple's trademark cover. It was speculated that such activity was part of a bigger campaign for Apple to expand the scope of its existing iPod trademark, which included trade marking "IPODCAST," "IPOD," and "POD." On November 16, 2006, Apple Trademark Department returned a letter claiming Apple does not object to third party usage of "podcast" to refer to podcasting services and that Apple does not license the term media type="youtube" key="y-MSL42NV3c" height="344" width="425"