Jump into Podcasting

Recently there has been a surge on interest in podcasting so we'd like to provide a quick intro and note some resources to get you started.

First off, what is podcasting? Essentially it's a new way to receive audio content periodically from syndicated web sources for later listening on your audio player. That's quite a mouthful, so let's break it down a bit more.

You may already be familiar with weblogs, newsreaders and, maybe, RSS. PlayerBlog is a weblog. We make period posts. People who are interested (and we thank you for your interest!) in being notified when there is a new post subscribe to our newsfeed in their newsreader.

So far so good? The new twist with Podcasting is that the "posts" are actually audio files (radio show-style or music or anything) that you can listen to at your leisure, but the concept of posts, newsfeeds and newsreaders is still in the mix.

So now that you know what podcasting is, here's how you can get started listening and making your own podcasts. Engadget has guide for getting podcasts onto your iPod or on WMA audio players, which includes just about everything but the iPod.

Once you've figured out how to make it work and gotten iPodder running, here is a good place to start for podcasts.

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