WHAT IS PODCASTING?

~ Kevin Bachelder

Podcasting is often referred to as online radio. It’s a way that allows anyone to share their thoughts, opinions and expertise with everyone else. It allows anyone to be a content creator regardless of their background. All you need to create your own podcast is a passion for a specific topic, a computer and a microphone..

Podcasts can be audio or video. If you’re looking to find other people who share a similar passion (knitting, photography, travel, SciFi movies, etc.) there’s probably already several podcasts out there on that topic.

Most podcasts are normally free to listen to and very easy to enjoy.

This video does an excellent job of describing podcasts:
www.commoncraft.com/podcasting

This is one of Kevin's podcasts:
http://www.tuningintoscifitv.com/

The following are just a few directories of "podcasts" you can explore to find just about any topic imaginable.. If you don't like one podcast, move on to another until you find the ones you enjoy..
www.podcastdirectory.com
www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts
www.podfeed.net

Music lovers-check out Pandora Radio – it’s free

Pandora Radio (which is free) is different from other Internet radio sites - check it out for yourself…

At: http://www.pandora.com/

According to Wikipedia.com, Pandora has two subscription plans:

• a free subscription supported by advertisements, and
• a fee-based subscription without ads.

A free account user may reach the streaming limit of 40 hours per month, and continue unlimited streaming by paying $0.99. There are also advertisements in "Pandora Mobile" for mobile phones and the "Pandora in The Home" computer appliance.

As of March 2010, Pandora had 700,000 tracks in its library and 48 million users who listened for 11.6 hours per month on average

To find out just how Pandora works, check out…

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/pandora.htm