A podcast is a web feed of audio or video files placed on the Internet for anyone to subscribe to.
Podcasters' websites (like OurRadioShow.net) may offer direct downloads of their files, (we will soon too) but the subscription feed of automatically delivered new content is what distinguishes a podcast from a simple download or from real-time streaming (like streaming audio airchecks on reelradio.com, or like you find on many classic radio station web sites.)
You can just play our podcasts from our website (where you are now) OR download our podcast episodes to your computer if you want.
OR make the following address into a bookmarked page to see all of our podcast episodes listed simply as podcasts. You can play them right from the list on that page:
feed://newsbreak.com/podcasts/ourradioshowfeed.xml
But, then again, you may want to get all gussied up with serious podcast subscriptions so anything new is delevered automatically when published. If you subscribe, episodes are sent automatically when available and you don't have to guess (or check the link printed above) when there's a new episode.
iTunes (or another aggragator) will do it for you and delever the new stuff right to your computer or even to your iPod. If you think you might like to be a subscriber...keep reading.
By the way, did you know that The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005 word of the year in December, defining the term as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player." Now doesn't that make you want to spring for an iPod. ...BUT you don't need an iPod - just yer computer - so read on.
If you want to subscribe to the OurRadioShow podcast (or any other podcast), you need to sign up with what's called an aggragator (sort of a distributor of podcasts - like a distributor of magazines to subscribers).
It might cost you 20 bucks unless you take our suggestion and download iTunes from Apple for free. (It's okay if you have a Windows PC.) Then go find us in their podcast listing.
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
Our category is "Podcasts / Audio Blogs". Our name (ofcourse) is Our Radio Show. Click SUBSCRIBE - and we're married. How 'bout that!
If you want to use another
aggregator, just give them our podcast URL: http://www.newsbreak.com/podcasts/ourradioshow.xml
Then subscribe with them. It sounds complicated -
but it's really not.
We stole most of this
text from Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia. So if you want
to spend the rest of the day reading about podcasts, go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
If you want a big, long
list of sites about podcasting, go here:
http://www.podcast411.com/page2.html
If you don't want anything
to do with iTunes and would like to use something called JUICE
which claims 1,350,000 downloads, go here:
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php
(We don't know anything about them.)
OR - Just listen on OurRadioShow.net - no strain - no pain - no ipod...
OH...Just one more thing:
- want to go on the air (wire/cable/whatever)?
Call us and give us a ONE MINUTE piece of your mind. We might
just put you on Our Radio Show. It's our nickel - call (800) 596-7506
Whatever you do, enjoy yourself - it's later than you think!
Want to contact Bob and Bob (just click here)
Now close this window - the show must go on!