My Pod or Yours? My Pod or Yours? How Podcasting fits in with your library and How Podcasting fits in with your library and your life your life Medical Library Association - Greater Midwestern Region Technology Forum 2006 Max Anderson, SOLINET October 10, 2006
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My Pod or Yours?My Pod or Yours?How Podcasting fits in with your library and How Podcasting fits in with your library and
your lifeyour life
Medical Library Association - Greater Midwestern Region
Technology Forum 2006Max Anderson, SOLINET
October 10, 2006
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Podcasting definedPodcasting defined
“Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio programs or music videos, over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.”
- Wikipedia
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So, in EnglishSo, in English
• People can subscribe to regularly updated audio content• They don’t NEED to subscribe though, more on that later
• Automatic downloads of new content
• Podcasting= iPod + Broadcasting• Typically audio files are .mp3 files
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The biggest myth: The biggest myth: “You need to buy an iPod!”“You need to buy an iPod!”
• You don’t need an iPod to listen to it (or any other dedicated .mp3 player really)
• You can listen to audio files on your computer if you wish (or your smart phone, your pda, your digital media player)
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How do you access a How do you access a podcast?podcast?
• Via your computer and internet connection
• Using a tool for downloading content• Receiver• Aggregator• Can be a website (e.g. bloglines), or a program like Juice or iTunes OR even the website of the podcast itself
• Listen to the content• Computer• .mp3 player, etc.
Same thing, different name
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Finding podcasts via Finding podcasts via iTunesiTunes
• Music Store>Podcasts• Cost
http://www.apple.com/itunes
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Listening to a podcast via Listening to a podcast via iTunesiTunes
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Download and listenDownload and listen
• Once you have downloaded the content, you can play it via iTunes
• Or transfer it to your iPod• What about other options?
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Other ways to find, Other ways to find, subscribe, listensubscribe, listen
• Juice, http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
• NewzCrawler, http://www.newzcrawler.com/
• RSSRadio, http://www.dorada.co.uk/• @Podder (for the visually impaired)http://www.apodder.org/
• Bloglines, http://bloglines.com• Lots of them out there
More Selected ResourcesMore Selected Resources• Learning to Speak, http://www.higheredblogcon.com/index.php/learning-to-speak-creating-a-library-podcast-with-a-unique-voice/
• Podcasting Newshttp://www.podcastingnews.com/
• Podcasting with Windows (by Zef Hemel) http://www.zefhemel.com/upload/CreatingAPodcastingShowOnWindows.pdf