Chapter 1
Getting the Scoop on Podcasting
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding what podcasting is
Discovering the steps to creating a podcast
Finding and subscribing to podcasts
Sometimes the invention that has the biggest effect on our daily lives isn’t an invention at all but the convergence of existing technologies, processes, and ideas. Podcasting may be the perfect example of that principle — and it’s changing the relationship people have with their media player of choice, music collections, books, education, and more.
The podcasting movement is a spinoff of another communications boom: blogs, short for web logs. Blogs sprang up in the early 2000s, providing anyone with a desire to share their thoughts a clean, elegant interface that left many on the technology side wondering why they hadn’t thought of it sooner. Everyday people could chronicle their lives, hopes, dreams, and fears and show them to anyone who cared to read. And oddly enough, people did care to read — and still do.
Many blogs offered something called an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed, which is basically a text file with blog articles and images along with metadata such as the author and publish date. RSS feeds ...
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