New Digital Broadcast Trend: Podcasting
Tech Trend to Watch Department: Here's a new twist on using the internet as a radio alternative - it's called Podcasting. Internet radio sends a stream you can listen to, but "Podcasters" create audio content that is then loaded onto your MP3 player and can be listened to anytime. Wired News has a great piece on this breakthrough: "For anyone who loves listening to the wide variety of internet audio programming, but can't always listen to their favorite shows when they're scheduled or take the time to download them manually, help has arrived. Known as podcasting, the technology is a new take on syndicated content feeds like RSS and Atom. But instead of pushing text from blogs and news sites to various content aggregators like FeedDemon and Bloglines, podcasting sends audio content directly to an iPod or other MP3 player."

Former MTV VJ and early Web personality Adam Curry developed the first podcasting agrregation software called iPodder and already many bloggers are setting up their own mini-radio shows you can subscribe to much like you would add an RSS feed to your RSS reader. (We love Bloglines)

Who knows, maybe Alice and Bill will do a radio show via iPodder? Stay tuned....this is very cool stuff.

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