Wikipedia defines it best, “A podcast is a series of audio or video digital media files which are distributed over the Internet by syndicated download, through Web feeds, to portable media players and personal computers.”
Lets break this down. Remember radio? You have to be in a certain place at a certain time to listen to your show. Think of “podcasting” as radio with a twist. That twist is you can listen to your show, whenever you want, wherever you are, on whatever device you want to listen with. No longer do you have to sit in your house, you could be walking the Great Wall of China at 4pm their time listening to the show you want. You also have total control of what you are listening to. If you don’t like something, like ads, you can fast forward it.
Also, you never need to tune in to see if there is a new show. If you are able to subscribe to that shows feed in a feed reader (Google Reader, Zune Marketplace, ITunes, etc.) you will get the newest episode automatically. The program will check for new shows automatically, and if it finds something, it will download it for you to listen.
This is just the start of something big, stay tuned for more…
