A podcast question ?

Question

what is a podcast ? I keep hearing about them everywere but have no idea what they do, What there for or what they look like, Are they good ? are they costly?

Answer 1

To answer your questions, in order:

1. what is a podcast ? It's a show with episodes.  It can be audio, like a radio show, or video, like a tv show.

2. what they do - they sit on the internet waiting to be watched or heard. You can find them by googling your favorite topic with the word "podcast" next to it, or by downloading itunes and then browsing the ones that are listed there. If you subscribe, you get the episodes automatically in your itunes or whatever application you use to collect them. You can then have the podcast on your computer, or put it on a player to take with you.

2. what they're for & what they look like - they're all different. You have professional ones made by big media corporations, and amateur ones made by moms and pops and even children.

3. Are they good? Some of them. Most of the ones done by kids are pretty stupid.

4. Are they costly? No. The vast majority are free. Some ask for donations. Some charge a small fee. Rush Limbaugh and people like that will always charge money for theirs.

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Answer 2

A podcast is pretty much a radio style broadcast. There are also video podcasts, which are the same except with video. They can be about anything. And since the subject matter varies so much, it's easy to find one that suits your interests. You can download them off certain websites, such as podcast.com, or off itunes. They can be played on anything that plays mp3 files. Or, in the case of the video podcasts, anything that plays videos. And rather than being costly, they are completely free!

Answer 3

A podcast is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. The term podcast, like broadcast, can refer either to the series of content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also called podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.

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