Podcasting is a low-cost and effective way to reach audience and share information with them. Many users particularly like audio podcasts because of the conveniences and the great varieties of subjects available to them. They can listen to news, sports, entertainment, life skills, lectures, and even obituaries from any computer or from a MP3 player when they are on-the-go.
To many users, podcast is like a blog . With a microphone, even amateurs can talk like a professional radio host and broadcast their thoughts to the world.
For me, podcast is a new way to touch base with my hometown which is 10,000 miles and 12 time zones away. Some of my hometown newspapers and radio stations have podcasts that provide the latest local news and radio programs, I can visit home without actually leaving home.
Podcast.net is my primary source when searching for a podcast, search is fast and easy and it includes podcasts in foreign languages. A recent keyword search of "library" in the same directory produces 63 results, quite a few libraries as well as companies such as SirsiDynix have already been using podcasting as a tool to dispense information. To find booktalk podcasts, Washington Post and New York Times are good sources to go to too.
Connecting to a podcast through Podcast.net can be slow sometimes , a faster way to connect is to subscribe to individual RSS feed, through which I can also get the latest episode of the podcast.
With YouTube, everyone can become a filmmaker, with audio podcasting, everyone can become a radio host. When podcasting is becoming mainstream, will it pose a threat to radio station?
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