What is a podcast
Todays question:
Again, being new to the blogging world, what is a podcast?
Yesterday I answered a question about finding your podcast feed and one of the comments was the question above. Used to regularly podcast on this blog and figured it just may be as easy to show it as it is to write it.
Nahhh. You know me I’ll do both.
Here is the definition from Wikipedia
A podcast is a series of audio or video digital-media files which is distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers. Though the same content may also be made available by direct download or streaming, a podcast is distinguished from other digital-media formats by its ability to be syndicated, subscribed to, and downloaded automatically when new content is added.
Using WordPress blogs it is easy to add an audio file into your feed using a simple plugin like Podpress which is what I use. It now allows me to have an audio here that you can get from..
- The feed
- Listen to it right here
- Download it from here
- Download it directly from some of the directories like ITunes
This allows you to give people another media to get your information.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
P.S. The traffic series is stalled again for lack of comments – hint, hint
P.P.S. Podcast will only show on actual post not the main page
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