Podcasting: the New Age Digital Broadcasting
podcasting software are among the recent tools that techies are using in the area of digital publishing. The idea of broadcasting information using the online medium had started long back. With several innovations added to various digital publishing mechanisms, podcasting has become a buzzword lately. Podcasting is a rather simple technique and can be easily accomplished using simple to use podcasting softwares. A striking feature of podcast and podcasting software is that, as soon as new content is added, it is automatically downloadable or associated with the subscribed services. The users (subscribers) can thus get ready updates on the services they have subscribed to.
Before going into the details of podcasting software and their uses, let us first quickly understand what podcasting is. A group of media files are published on an online medium, Internet using RSS feeds. These files can then be viewed or listened to on a computer or other media players. Thus, the whole process of being able to publish media files on computers and portable devices is called podcasting or also is simply referred to as podcast. The term, podcast was actually coined from combination of ‘POD’ (Portable on Demand) and ‘cast’ taken from broadcast.
Having technically understood what podcasting let us now look at some podcasting software and tools that will help you get your media content published. There are