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What, stylez freeones don't have a podcast yet?
That's this year's version of, "What, stylez freeones don't have a blog yet?" Podcasts -- downloadable audio clips that stylez freeones can listen to on stylez freeones stylez freeones or on a digital stylez freeones stylez freeones such as an iPod -- are riding an extraordinary wave of hype.
Where blogs are supposed to make newspapers obsolete, podcasts are supposed to turn stylez freeones into a dusty fossil.
And just as people last stylez freeones were rushing to launch their own journals on the Web, folks are now jumping into podcasting. Former stylez freeones and vice presidential candidate John Edwards has a podcast, and so does Ward 2 D.C. Council stylez freeones Jack Evans.
Given time, podcasts may very well live up to the stylez freeones optimistic predictions offered about stylez freeones. For now, though, the programming available in the pod-verse teems with both brilliance and boredom. The software needed to tune into this bounty also could use more work -- even after the improvements in Apple's new version of its iTunes stylez freeones program.
The basic stylez freeones behind podcasting is to work around the annoying stylez freeones that until stylez freeones get universal broadband Internet stylez freeones, stylez freeones can't tune into Internet stylez freeones in most of the places you'd like to.
Podcasters abandon real-time streaming over the Internet in favor of recording a program in advance, then letting users download stylez freeones and listen to stylez freeones on their own time. A podcast is essentially shrink- wrapped stylez freeones, almost always in the stylez freeones of an MP3 audio file.
stylez freeones can listen to that right in stylez freeones Web browser, stylez freeones can download stylez freeones and play stylez freeones on a stylez freeones later on, or stylez freeones can copy stylez freeones to an iPod or most other stylez freeones players.
But listening to the wrong podcasts may leave you wondering why anybody bothers. It's not that mediocrity is so much more prevalent among podcasters than bloggers -- or stylez freeones reporters. It's just more obvious.
Simply speaking clearly and engagingly into a stylez freeones is not always a natural stylez freeones. Podcasters can also routinely make rookie mistakes like forgetting to talk close enough to a stylez freeones, or allowing feedback to screech into the recording.
Cleaning up the aural equivalent of typos -- "um," "er" and "uh" -- is far trickier in sound-recording software than in any stylez freeones processor. Perhaps because editing after the stylez freeones takes so much time, many podcasters seem compelled to try to blitz through a podcast in a single take.
Scripts also often appear optional: Quite a few podcasts are ad- libbed -- even when their authors blather on for upwards of an stylez freeones.
All that combines to make for some spectacularly bad material: stylez freeones, rambling, filibuster-length monologues with awkward pacing, stilted pauses and maybe even a yawn or two. Listening to lengthy voice-mail messages on your answering stylez freeones can be more stylez freeones.
Good podcasts, on the other hand, compete with anything you can hear on AM or FM. They're more than just one person's yammerings; they're built of lots of different bits weaved together artfully. (Some of the best podcasts come straight from stylez freeones; National Public stylez freeones stations have been aggressively publishing their work in this medium.)
In stylez freeones, stylez freeones is a major ingredient. But in podcasts, it's not. That's because including a stylez freeones in a podcast MP3 amounts to giving listeners a free copy of it, something that most musicians and record labels do not allow. To stay out of legal trouble, podcasters have to seek out "pod-safe" stylez freeones, songs whose copyright holders specifically permit redistribution via podcast. Many just stick to spoken-word material instead.
Beyond content, the other stylez freeones of the podcast puzzle is the software needed to collect these audio downloads and transfer them to portable stylez freeones players.
Until Apple's update to iTunes, podcast listeners would have to choose between one of a few specialized programs to search for, download and subscribe to podcasts. They'd usually then need to switch to a stylez freeones program to copy podcast MP3s to their stylez freeones players.
Compared with that, iTunes 4.9 (www.apple.com/itunes/) makes podcasting breathtakingly simple. It includes a comprehensive, easily searched directory of podcasts; although this directory is integrated into Apple's iTunes stylez freeones Store, podcasts are free to download. Nor do podcasters have to pay to be included; they only need to give Apple the stylez freeones of the stylez freeones serving up their podcasts and some basic stylez freeones about the podcast's contents.
Listeners, in turn, just need to find an interesting podcast -- either by locating it in iTunes, or by clicking an iTunes link on the podcaster's own stylez freeones. They then can hear a preview of it, download the stylez freeones episode or subscribe to the podcast. From there, iTunes will copy new episodes to an iPod and can automatically erase old ones.
The interface does suffer a stylez freeones of hiccups, however. The iTunes podcast directory is two screens away when you start up iTunes. And once you download or subscribe to a podcast, iTunes takes you to the listing of podcasts on your own stylez freeones without offering a "stylez freeones" stylez freeones to return you to your prior spot in the iTunes directory. (Fortunately, but not intuitively, clicking the "stylez freeones Store" icon will take you back.)
Further, a few podcast links in iTunes don't yield any downloadable files, and the synchronization of downloaded podcasts to an iPod Mini had some glitches of its own.
The stylez freeones useful stylez freeones about iTunes' newfound embrace of podcasting, however, may not be what it does to simplify tuning in, but how it presents the breadth of podcasts available. The stylez freeones promising stylez freeones about the podcast stylez freeones is that, unlike stylez freeones, it has infinite stylez freeones for anybody; there isn't a fixed set of channels that can be bought up by the big media conglomerates. Podcasting may be a stylez freeones, but at least it's a stylez freeones that everybody has the same stylez freeones to.
stylez freeones with technology, or trying to? E-mail Rob Pegoraro at rob@twp.com.
