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Tuesday, 01 March 2005 |
Podcasting gives voice to amateurs
San Francisco Chronicle
 When my editor asked me to try my hand
at podcasting, the assignment stirred up an old fantasy I had as a kid growing
up in San Francisco -- to be a radio news and sports announcer.
After all, podcasting, the latest phenomenon to sweep the Internet, lets you
create your own radio show. But instead of broadcasting your voice over the air,
podcasters record their shows digitally and transmit them in the form of an MP3
file that can be beamed around the world to -- as the name implies -- iPods or
similar digital audio players.
Best of all, instead of spending years looking for a big break at a local radio
station, it took me just a few days to set up my own rudimentary podcast.
It wasn't easy, though, and there were moments when the technology was so
confusing that I came close to giving up and asking for an easier assignment,
like explaining the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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