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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