Recommended Podcasts (Includes Podcast 101)

If you are already familiar with podcasting and know how to download and listen you could jump to part II — a list of some wonderful podcasts available for free download. Most of these twenty odd podcasts are in ‘Talk’, ‘Documentary’, or ‘Interview’ format and are mostly informative, incisive, inclusive, and international.

Part I: So what is a Podcast and where do I begin?
A simple way to look at this is in reference to a radio. Imagine that BBC decides to take a feature program that it has already broadcast on the traditional radio and decides to make it available on the internet for you and me to download and listen. It could as well be a music group wanting to sample its music online, or it could even be you wanting to share some audio content trough the web.

Technically this has been happening for many years now but it never became very popular because it used to be a bother to regularly check back with all your favorite sites for new episodes and then sit around and watch the episode download.

On-demand radio has now reached the next generation. (more at the new blog…)