Podcasts

Please read this article about the popularity of podcasts: http://www.5wpr.net/?p=1091

Then visit iTunes and select a podcast to listen to (genre of your choice).

What benefits do you see for the media provider and the audience? Do you think podcasts work better for certain kinds of topics or media? Do you currently regularly listen to any podcasts? Why or why not?

You will be starting your podcast assignment soon. Be thinking about what kind of podcast you might produce.



Podcasts offer all kinds of advantages for providers and for their audience. They are really nice for the fact that you can listen to a program at any time and you can listen to older programs after they've aired. Podcasts also give people the ability to listen to broadcasts multiple times and rewind the broadcast if need be.

I think that podcasts are really good for talk show type broadcasts. For instance, before David Sedaris came to OU for his lecture I looked up the podcasts that he had been on in the past to get an idea of what he sounded like and what his lecture would be like. Then I listened to a talk show where they were interviewing a comedian, Chris Doucette. I feel these type of broadcasts work better as podcasts than news broadcasts would, for instance. Since news is constantly changing they have constant updates and they are going to be constantly out of date. Besides the David Sedaris broadcasts I looked up I do not listen to any podcasts. Currently there are no podcasts that really catch my attention as something that I want to listen to on a regular basis. I also get my information about the few topics that I have a high interest in knowing about from other sources.