Podcast

I’ve never known the term “Podcast” before I started this learning programme. When I read the information about Podcast, I was astonished to find out that “Podcast” was the Word of the Year 2005. The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have selected ‘podcast’ as one of the Word of 2005. It’s defined as ‘a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the internet for downloading to a personal audio player’. Now we can hear ‘Podcast’ everywhere, thousands of podcasts are available at the iTunes Music Store and iPodder etc.

I’ve explored a few podcast directory and finding tools, like Podcast.net, Podcastalley.com and Yahoo.podcasts. They seemed out of date and my workmates suggested me to search for the library podcast, which named as “Denver Public Library Podcast”. It’s good and we can download many useful stuff, like songs. For the news podcast, CNN podcast is very cool and I like it.