Pod Casting: Advent of a New Era

If you have not heard any thing about Podcasting, then you are certainly missing out something related to a very useful technological advancement. It would not be an exaggeration if we say that Podcasting is most important technological trends ever since the advent of Internet. Popularity of Podcasting is increasing day by day at a very fast pace.

Podcasting is Going to Stay Here
There are people who suspect that Podcasting is becoming popular because of the enthusiasm only and not going to last much. I would ask them to recall the period of last decades of the last century, when Internet was just taking birth. People expressed similar views regarding Internet then and all of them have been proved wrong now. Furthermore, if you compare the Podcasting with the Internet, you will find that Podcasting is gaining ground at a much faster speed.

After going trough this little information, you must have become curious enough to know something about Podcasting. Podcasting lets you download audio files from the Internet to your iPod or any other device such as MP3 Player, Cell Phones, PDA, PSP or even to your computer. The word Pod casting is derived from two words iPod and broadcasting. In short, it was a system for broadcasting audio files over the internet for use by IPod users. Former VJ of MTV Adam Curry developed an apple script application to automatically download the audio files and sync them to your iPod or any other media player. You can listen to these audio files later at your convenience. However, people have been working to make Podcasts possible since the year 2000. But there was no concrete result until the fall of year 2004. Adam Curry along with the David Wiener made Podcasting possible and created the history. Both of them are today known as Podfathers.

Word of The Year 2005
With no regulatory body like FCC, Pod casters are free to use their imagination. They have the liberty of saying whatever they want to say. So, they are coming up with new and new ideas. This fresh content is attracting the listeners and they are flocking to the Podcasting. Podcasting has gained so much popularity in the year 2005 that Podcasting has been named the word of the year.

How to begin Pod casting?
Three basic steps to start Podcasting includes audio recording and conversion of those files in MP3 format, creation of RSS 2.0 text file giving information about your media file and finally, uploading both the files to Internet.