This thing to to cover Podcasting.
Besides pictures I have always been interested in Audio downloading from the Internet.
There once were large FTP depositories of sound clips from movies and TV shows. We could download them and assign them to events on our computers.
Eventually, the web downloading became faster and the formats became more compact.
.MP3 hit the scene and Web music was never the same.
Of course most folks knew that this was mostly for sharing songs...
Napster - mp3.com and other services. But the idea of AudioBooks and serialized Audio programing was not unheard of.
Services such as Audible.com began as a subscriptions service where Audiobooks and a Weekly version of various Audio Magazines could be downloaded.
They even offered the free Audible Otis MP3 player when you singed up. -- Yep all the way back in 2001.
--- The world of Podcasting - exploded when the IPOD was released and associated with ITUNES.
The Idea that ITUNES could offer a way for various serialized audio programs to be registered and found... along with the advent of RSS feeds... really made all the difference.
Also - the availability of inexpensive Audio Hardware and Software on the PC desktop - with high speed Internet access made creating Serialized audio programs an easy and fun thing for folks to do.
I live off of the Audio format.
All my fun book reading is AudioBooks.
The original format of Story Telling .... reading is a true bore to me.
Podcasting is gives me just what I like and need --- and it cane be done while Multi Tasking.
-- Although I'll admit I don't like the word - "podcast" - it's a new lingo for an older idea.
OH - well who am I to argure with a living language like English... ?
Many years ago folks with amature radio stations could broadcast their own "pirate radio shows" - Podcasting is more similar 'power to the people' !
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