Podcasting
What is podcasting?
So what is all the fuss about podcasting?
Portable, flexible and global.
Is it of any interest to you as webdesigners of the future?
Provide emotional context and overall tone. Enables people with vision impairment and reading disabilities to access information and entertainmant.
What are the possibilities and limitations?
Possibilities:
Creative entrepreneurs and smart technologists may make it easy for podcasters to create hyperlinks to pre-defined cues in audio files, deliver on-the-fly closed captioning, automatic index creation or full-text transcripts.*
Limitations:
Podcasts lack rapid comprehension - the user does not know immediately whether the contents are useful.*
Lack of access to high speed connections, may have to pay, file sizes and file compatability.
*Source: The value of podcasting
http://blogs.bnet.com/church/?m=20050708
All sources accessed on 17 October 2006.
Podcasting is a way of automatically downloading audio files to your computer. You can then listen to this audio on your computer or transfer them to an MP3 player.
What is a podcast?
It's a new way that a web site can automatically send you music or radio programming to your portable device. To do this, you subscribe to the podcast by downloading a small piece of software that manages all of your podcast subscriptions. When connected to the internet, the software searches for the latest edition of the program on the accessed website and will download it to a folder on your computer, ready for when you next plug in your portable mp3 device. This means that you don't have to manually search for new programs to download on this website. It happens automatically!
So what is all the fuss about podcasting?
Portable, flexible and global.
Is it of any interest to you as webdesigners of the future?
Provide emotional context and overall tone. Enables people with vision impairment and reading disabilities to access information and entertainmant.
What are the possibilities and limitations?
Possibilities:
Creative entrepreneurs and smart technologists may make it easy for podcasters to create hyperlinks to pre-defined cues in audio files, deliver on-the-fly closed captioning, automatic index creation or full-text transcripts.*
Limitations:
Podcasts lack rapid comprehension - the user does not know immediately whether the contents are useful.*
Lack of access to high speed connections, may have to pay, file sizes and file compatability.
*Source: The value of podcasting
http://blogs.bnet.com/church/?m=20050708
All sources accessed on 17 October 2006.
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