Note by Evan: I hope you’ll excuse me today from having any Red Sox content. While we wait for Gary Sheffield to be traded and the winner of the Daisuke Matsuzaka sweepstakes to be announced and for something — ANYTHING — to come out from Yawkey Way … well, sometimes you just have to write about non-Red Sox content. As it is, it just so happens that I recently got an A on a paper I wrote for my journalism class. You can find it here… and feel free to use the comments for anything you want to say … including four-word epithets on how A-Gon lost the Gold Glove to Derek Jeter … I mean … seriously!?
To listen to a radio program, people had to plan their schedule around the show time. With an online phenomenon called podcasts, not only can users now choose when to listen to shows, they can also choose where and how. As new and innovative ways to present content of any kind to users emerge, the choices of the users expand into where, when and how. Podcasts, which utilize audio as its medium, are a fast-rising trend that can be thought of as the start of the online audio revolution.
Podcasts are audio shows placed online for a person??s listening pleasure at any time. Users can listen straight from the home page of the podcast or use a syndication feed to listen to it. Yet another option is to download the show to a multimedia player such as an iPod and listen to it on the go. A syndication feed allows users to subscribe to any type of data such as news, audio, or video and have it delivered to a home page of their choosing.
Tim Bourquin of the Portable Media Expo hosts a podcast called ?
