Podcasting: Rise of the Audio Blog

By Chief Gadgeteer, Gizmos for Geeks
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews

In a very short space of time since the iPod was first launched, Podcasting [quick definition, Wikipedia article] has taken off at Web-speed. According to this Reuters story, nearly half of digital-music player owners younger than 29 years old have tried out podcasts and more than 6 million people are listening to a form of communication that emerged only last year. If you think that there’s a magazine for practically every topic and hobby due to the ease and relatively low-cost of publishing, just imagine the number of subjects that can be covered and broadcast via the Web when all that’s needed is an Internet connection, a microphone and some software [HowTo’s].

Source: Gizmos For Geeks

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