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Saturday, 05 March 2005 |
God on the
iPod
Salt Lake Tribune -
USA
The radio preacher is finding new life in cyberspace.
Godcasting is the latest advancement in online religion, in which preachers
convert their sermons to audio to be heard on portable digital audio devices.
Using iPods or any portable MP3 player, ''podcasting'' lets people download
audio programs that can be listened to whenever they like. It's a form of audio
syndication that musicians, businessmen, tech talk show hosts and political
commentators like Al Franken have already adopted.
There's lots more God on iPod than jazz, theater or movie reviews. Pod
preachers, including Christians, Buddhists and Pagans, are among the most
prolific users of the new technology. Just as sermons were among the first type
of broadcasts when radio caught on in America in the 1920s, podcasting is
creating a new form of wireless parson.
To get the audio feeds, listeners connect an MP3 player to a computer, go online
and sign up for podcasting feeds. Audio content is then pushed from the original
source and makes its way through an aggregator to a subscriber who can listen to
it anytime - in the same way VCRs time-shifted TV and services like TiVo have
provided television programs on demand.
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