What is Podcasting

Podcasting, a portmanteau of Apple's "iPod" and "broadcasting", is a method of publishing audio files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and automatically receive new files by subscription...usually at no cost.

Not since blogging has a technology seemed to come out of nowhere and been so widely adopted as podcasting. Less than two years old, roughly 4.8 million people downloaded a podcast in 2005 -- compared to just over 800,000 in 2004 -- and 11.4 million listeners are expected this year, according to research from The Diffusion Group. Already the Apple iTunes service offers 15,000 podcasts and listeners have signed up for more than 7 million subscriptions.

Podcasting has exploded because it gives people more control of what they listen to, when they want to and the freedom to take their programs out and about with them.

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