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Monday, 18 July 2005 |
What it takes
to be a radio disc jockey
Economic
Times - India
Of all the buzzwords doing the rounds these days, ‘podcasting’ has got to
be the zeitgeistiest. It’s a short personal radio show or audio blog on the
internet and can be downloaded and played back on a computer or a portable music
player like Apple’s iPod, from where the genre draws its name.
So here’s your chance to become a radio disc jockey, and create your own radio
show and then publish it on the internet. “In its bare essence, it’s
broadcasting to MP3 players. What’s great about it is that anybody can do it,”
explains Adam Curry, former VJ and pioneer of podcasting in an interview with
BBC.
A click can take you to a page of podcasts on offer - they range from public
radio shows to the eccentric rants of geeks. That’s a big boon to rock bands in
various cities. “Now, it’s much easier to access works of other bands from all
over the country. We plan to podcast our music, as soon as our tracks will be
out next month,” says Joy Deep, member of a Delhi based rock band - Presporika
Subscribers - which can use their ‘podcatching’ software to select and
automatically detect which podcasts they would like to sync to their MP3 player.
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