podcasting

=What is podcasting?= A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication

=History:= podcasting really caught hold in 2004 with the ability to more easily share audio and video files.


 * September 2000 - The first system that enabled the selection, automatic downloading and storage of serial episodic audio content on PCs and portable devices was launched
 * October 2000 - The concept of using enclosures in RSS Feeds was proposed in October 2000 in a draft by Tristan Louis,[5] The idea was implemented (in a somewhat different form) by Dave Winer, a software developer and an author of the RSS format
 * February 12, 2004 - The term "podcasting" was one of several terms for portable listening to audioblogs suggested by Ben Hammersley in //The Guardian//
 * February, 2005 - PRI's The World became the first daily public radio news program to podcast on February 11, 2005, through its Technology podcast hosted by Clark Boyd
 * December 3, 2005 - "Podcast" was named the word of the year in 2005 by the New Oxford American Dictionary and would be in the dictionary in 2006..

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