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>Podcasting, I don’t get it. What’s the big deal? I agree with Maddox on this topic: “Someone had the revolutionary idea of taking a compressed audio file and putting it online. Yeah, doesn’t sound so sexy when I describe it for what it is, does it you morons? It would have been a great idea if streaming audio wasn’t already around for over a decade before the word “podcast” entered the lexicon. Man, I can’t stand the word ‘lexicon.’”
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OK, I don’t normally respond to people who can’t read, but I’ll take a stab at this one. Podcasting is more than just “streaming” mp3s (It’s not streaming at all really). Podcasting is really an audio blog of sorts. Take iTunes New Music Tuesdays for example. As you listen to it in iTunes, there’s a little icon that pops up next to the status window. When you click on this icon, a dropdown menu displays with album covers and titles that are in that weeks podcast. This lets you navigate through the Podcast to whatever section sparks your interest more. But that’s more of an added bonus really. The idea behind podcasting is just an automated way of downloading content to your machine so you can listen to it whenever you want (hmmm, this sounds familiar. Damnit, what is it? It’s on the tip of me…. OHHHHHHH! that’s right, it’s DVR).
Honestly, I think these people are just upset because the term “Podcast” was coined after the iPod… God forbid those Mac freaks!