Pod – Casting
Pod – Comes from iPod
Casting - Comes from broadcasting
Podcasting is the method of broadcasting audio files over the Internet which can be downloaded and listened to via your computer or portable music player.
Why i-Pod ?
Due to origin of the word where in people began downloading music audio files to listen on their iPods.
Several audio files used for podcasting, as long as you have a music player on computer to listen to an audio podcasting file. Most familiar audio files are mpeg1, audiolayer3 or mp3.
Because of the copyright laws, podcasts are generally restricted to the talk radio format rather than broadcasting music.
Podcasting has created phenomenon of the home-based podcast personality.
Who is ‘’Podfather’’ ?
Adam Curry is the radio guy who produced and presented a podcast named ‘’ Daily Source Code ‘’ . This was the first successful podcast creation in the world. After ‘’ Daily Source Code’’ he produced many other podcasts.. Because of creating the first successful podcast, media interviewers refer Curry as ‘’ the Podfather’’
What makes a great podcast ?
Useful content , something people want..
Technique quality
Written transcript avability
Linked and included subject tags
Length – 5 minutes or less
Personality – good voice
Flow smoothly – intrudiction,content and summary
Major Catagories of Podcasting Users :
1. Public Services
Audio tours of museums, cities
Youth Media ( Youth Radio)
Educational Institutions ( campus tours)
Advocacy ( editors, journalists etc..)
2. Education and Academia
Students and teachers to share information to anyone and anywhere. If student is absent, he/she have opportunity to download the podcast of the class.
Mobile learning,journalism,religion,education,…
3. Entertainment
Some comedians have created their most popular program’s podcasts.
Radio Series,
Pornography
4. News
Newspapers use podcast to broadcast audio content from print interviews and drive traffic to their websites.
Communication from space,
Conference/meeting alerts
5. Music
Replacement for live music audio streams. Podcasting offers the ability to do slight time –shifting of performances and greatly reduces the complexity of the effort.
6. Politics
7. Publicity and Marketing - As an promotional vehicle of an upcoming event.
Disney/Pixar’s Cars movie animated feature film with a series of behind the scenes clips.
8. Health
9. Special Interests – fishing podcasts gives information avaible about fishing.
Anyone can do podcasting. No satellite or another big devices needed. All you need is a microphone, a video , a computer and connection to the web.
www.audioboo.fm
I would like to share the easiest audio podcasting program to you.
It takes 1 minute to download the iphone application of audioboo. After downloading the app you should sign up ( around 20 seconds ) and feel free to celebrate welcoming the podcasting world .
You can record your podcasts and upload them to your account only in seconds.
Your audioboo account gives you the opportunity to make your interviews and share its location with your followers in seconds.
After creating your audioboo account please don’t forget to add me your friends list.
http://audioboo.fm/hakanurcu
Hakan URCU
Sources :
Podcasting Legal Guide (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide)
Using Podcasting to expand marketing Class / University of California