no, it's not tho...as marsel already said, it's an online multimedia (we have vodcasts now too) broadcast/subscription. you don't download it, you subcribe to an RSS feed. it would be more accurate to say that it's uploaded to you... i agree it's a geeky hyped up new bit of jargon, but it's a lot easier than calling it an online multimedia broadcast/subscription...
-----Original Message----- >From: /0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Jun 21, 2006 3:38 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] >Subject: Re: (313) basic (=dumb?) question > >podcast = mp3 that you can put on your mp3 player. > > >no different than a regular mp3, and I have no idea why we needed the extra >stupid name. > >thx >:) >-Joe >----- Original Message ----- >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:52 AM >Subject: (313) basic (=dumb?) question > > >> What makes a podcast a podcast? >> My daily newspaper today defined podcasting as "the creation of online >> audio >> or video content for download" and said it has only been widespread since >> "June last year". >> I'm no media expert but this sounds like rubbish to me. People such as >> many >> on this list have been putting DJ mixes up on the net for download for >> ages. >> Certainly long before the term podcast came into use. >> I had supposed that what a podcast was was a file already in the >> audio-codec-from-the-mpeg4-video-codec format that iPods seem to use (ie. >> ready to go on a pod without having to be converted by iTunes or >> something). >> Don't know why I thought this, maybe I just made it up. >> Or is it more to do with the material involved - a one off DJ mix remains >> that where a radio style show that gets put up at regular intervals is a >> podcast? >> Does the fact that I'm not sure about something like this mean I have now >> finally become old? >>
