Intro to Podcasting
Join journalist Todd Melby to learn what podcasting is all about, how you can use it in your own reporting, and what you'll need to get started. This is perfect for writers and citizen journalists who want to integrate audio into their own work, but need to learn the basics to get started. Todd Melby is a reporter and radio journalist. His stories have aired on BBC Radio 4, NPR's Day to Day, The World, Marketplace, Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere. Locally, he writes about architecture for the Building Minnesota blog and Minnesota Monthly. He's won an Edward R. Murrow award and a Sigma Delta Chi award for radio documentaries he produced with Diane Richard.
This class is offered at Rondo Community Library in the tech lab. Please email ann@tcdailyplanet.net to register.
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2005 may well be known as the
2005 may well be known as the Year of the Podcast. In a surprisingly short amount of time, the terms “podcast” and “podcasting” have burst upon our media landscape with remarkable intensity. It seems everywhere you turn these days, whether it is the 70-270 website of the local newspaper, national public radio stations, or your next-door neighbor, everybody seems to be offering podcasts.It helps to think of a podcast as a radio show delivered to your computer. Like a radio show, podcasts mcdba often consist of episodes released on a regular, periodic basis or can be special, one-time events. Unlike radio, where you are limited to what the broadcaster is providing in your reception area, podcasts enable you to reach out across the geographic-boundlessness of the Internet and choose what you want to listen to, when you want to listen to it, and how you want to listen to it. Also unlike broadcast radio, podcasting can use a subscription model, enabling you to have your favorite shows automatically delivered to your computer. In this manner, podcasting has been likened to TiVo for the Internet.As websites seemed to blossom everywhere overnight, in much the same way so have podcasts. Because the technology behind podcasting is relatively simple, distribution of podcasts has become a sensation. Podcasts provide traditional media another outlet for distribution and, like blogs, have also posed a populist alternative mcp to corporate-controlled content.This article will provide an introduction to podcasting, offer some ways to get you started, give you a look into the Next Big Thing (“vodcasting,” or “screencasting”), and point you to resources for further exploration.