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I don\u2019t have an iPod.\u00a0 If you gave me one, I would give it back.\u00a0 The reason is simple.\u00a0 All of my music is archived as WMA files and not MP3.\u00a0 The quality is higher and the file size is smaller.\u00a0 The iPod won\u2019t play WMA files because it is a format created by Microsoft. So I have a Zen Micro from Creative Labs.\u00a0 Mine is orange.\u00a0 Its five gigabyte hard drive can hold a few thousand songs or several hundred podcasts.<\/p>\n
A podcast<\/a>\u00a0is a digitally recorded conversation between two or more people.\u00a0 Typically, the sound is saved as an MP3 file.\u00a0\u00a0This recorded broadcast\u00a0can be played on an iPod\u2026 thus the name podcast.\u00a0 Since a podcast is just digitized sound, it can be played on any device that will play an MP3\u2026 even a computer.\u00a0 The MP3 can also be burned to an audio CD.\u00a0 In this way, you can play a podcast through your car stereo.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the technical side of the podcast.\u00a0 The more important side is the content.\u00a0 Imagine this.\u00a0 A few experts sit down to talk about an interesting topic.\u00a0 Someone places a microphone in the middle of the table and the conversation is recorded.\u00a0 After the conversation is finished, it is made available to people that may be interested in the topic.\u00a0 That is what podcasting is all about.<\/p>\n There are\u00a0a lot of\u00a0podcasts out there.\u00a0 Feedburner alone handles more than 50,000 podcast feeds.\u00a0 There are many sites that list podcasts by topic.\u00a0 Here are a few links:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.podcast411.com\/<\/a> I listen to these podcasts: This Week in Tech (TWiT), Security Now, Cranky Geeks, Bit by Bit and\u00a0EdTechTalk.\u00a0 All these Podcasts deal with technology; the last\u00a0two are about educational technology.<\/p>\n Usually I burn them to CD and listen to them in my car.\u00a0 I use re-writable CD\u2019s because each week all the podcasts are new.\u00a0 In this way I don\u2019t end up with a pile of CD\u2019s that I will only listen to one time.\u00a0 My car actually has a stereo that plays MP3 (and WMA\u2019s) from a CD.\u00a0 So I can easily fit a week\u2019s worth of podcasts on one CD.<\/p>\n Since I started listening to podcasts, most of the new technologies that I currently use, I heard about first on a podcast.\u00a0 For my own professional development, podcasting is at the top of the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t have an iPod.\u00a0 If you gave me one, I would give it back.\u00a0 The reason is simple.\u00a0 All of my music is archived as WMA files and not MP3.\u00a0 The quality is higher and the file size is … Continue reading
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