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Tuesday, 01 March 2005 |
The joy of podcasting
The Green Bay News-Chronicle, WI - 49 minutes ago
I want to be a podcaster when I grow up. I've discovered this whole new medium
since I wrote about the great radio shows of Jean Shepherd a couple of weeks
ago.
It seems I had only scratched the surface when I extolled the virtues of buying
an inexpensive DVD on eBay that is packed with about 700 old shows by Shep, the
brilliant author and broadcaster best known as the writer and narrator of the
movie "A Christmas Story."
A reader alerted me to the fact that the entrepreneurial DVD merchant had merely
downloaded all those shows for free from Web sites like flicklives.com and the
Jean Shepherd Project. A lot of the great old radio shows that predate
Shepherd's time, like the Shadow, Inner Sanctum and X-Minus One, are also out
there. But that's not all.
Coincidentally, USA Today did a feature last week about podcasting. Made
possible by the creation of the .mp3 format and portable .mp3 players like the
iPod, podcasts are radio-style shows that amateur (but many of them talented)
programmers make available on the Internet for download, sometimes two or three
times a week.
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