Monday, October 28, 2013

Can you define & describe what a podcast is?


A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of audio, video, PDF or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device.    Podcasts may be the answer to the radio broadcasts of the past.  A Podcasts is a multimedia digital file, or more commonly, voice recording that is accessible via computer or many mobile devices.    The word podcast comes from a combination of the words “pod” and broadcast, referring to broadcasts that are accessible primarily via iPod, or now, iPad, iPhone or iTunes.  Podcasts allow subscribers to be able to view, listen to, and transfer the episodes to a variety of media players.

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