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Podcasting

What is Podcasting?

Podcasting is the means to communicate information through an audio file.

Audio files that are of interest to you automatically downloaded to your computer and synced to your MP3 player.

Broadcast + iPod = Podcast

Note: Any MP3 player can be used to listen to a podcast

This presentation will review…

The basic timeline of podcasting from its creation to the adoption and popularity in society.

The process of creating a podcast

Searching for existing podcast

Where did it begin

From innovation to confirmation podcasting has transitioned through many stages of the Innovation-Decision process.

2001 2003 2004 2005 2010

Timeline

Adam Curry, Tristan Louis and Dave Winer collaborated in using RSS technology and their media content to provide the first, Albeit, prototype podcasts.

2001

Timeline

•Stephen Downes used RSS to demonstrate audio file aggregation and syndication in his Ed Radio application

•Christopher Lydon, an NPR radio talk show host, started linking MP3 files of his interviews to his Berkman weblog

2003

Timeline

• Christopher Lydon’s use of RSS and MP3 files motivated Adam Curry to develop an iPodder script. •The iPodder script evolved into the iPodder software which was the first aggregator for downloading media files.• Articles on podcasts became available online

2004

Timeline

• Podcasting exploded with more than 2 million hits generated for a “podcasting” Google search. • Reported origination of podcasts from the US, Canada, Sweden, and Australia.• Apple Computers, Inc. integrated podcasts in its iTunes software

2005

Timeline

Sites that list podcast feeds became a vital resource in finding the kind of content that would interest different individuals.

• podcasters.org • podcast.net• ipodder.org

2010

Basic Research

Podcasting was developed in 2004 by former MTV video jockey Adam Curry and software developer Dave Winer.

The innovation of Podcasting was not invented to address a particular problem.

It was more so an invention that Adam Curry need is the means to communicate information through an audio file.

S-Curve

  Innovators   Early Adopters   Late Adopters

Adoption (%)

100 

 80  

60                   

                   40                   

                   20                   

                   

0                   

6  18  30  42  54  66 

TIME (months)

Adopter

Innovators

Early Adopters

Early Majority

Laggards

Development

Evolved into the iPodder software which was the first aggregator for downloading media files. iPodder script enabled him to automatically download Internet radio broadcasts to his iPod. Several developers improved upon his idea, and podcasting was officially born.

Development

1. Search for podcast that interest you

3. Software automatically checks for updates periodically

4. MP3 Player is updated when new podcast is available

2. Subscribe to a podcast

How to Create a Podcast

1. Download Audacity software to the computer

2. Connect Microphone to computer

3. Click the record button on the software

4. Begin talking5. Click on the stop button

when done

Materials Needed:

Computer Microphone Software Topic of

interest

Commercialization

Majority of podcasters are amateurs that provide a range of topics that anyone can listen to.

Anyone can create a podcast

Due to the ease of creating a podcast many individuals who have begun following existing podcast becomes podcasters themselves.

Commercialization

Podcasters and Podcasts are free from government regulation. They don't need to buy a license to broadcast their programming, as radio stations do, and they don't need to conform to the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) broadcast decency regulations

Searching for Podcast

Individuals can locate podcasts on interested topics by using sites that list podcast as well as iTunes.

Re-Invention

Podcasting may not be adopted by all members of society but this innovation will continue to evolve.

Vodcasting which is a video podcast is it its knowledge and maybe even its persuasion stage for majority of society.

There are of course change agents who have adopted the innovation and are using communication changes to commercialize the technology

References

Podcasting and RSS Images retrieved from the website Google Images. http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1R2SKPB_enUS384&biw=1362&bih=529&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=Podcasting&aq=f&aqi=g4g-m1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

http://www.how-to-podcast-tutorial.com/what-is-a-podcast.htm

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/podcasting1.htm

Questions

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