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Based on a sample of 4400 radio listeners in ten national markets, Bridge Ratings … estimates that 5 million people will have downloaded podcasts in 2005, compared with just 820,000 in 2004 …the podcast audience would reach critical mass in 2010 with 62.8 million users.
The figure in 2005 is 609% that of 2004 and it will be 7658% by the year 2010. Are we harnessing podcasting for our teaching and learning yet?
Click here for the full article.
Yahoo! Podcasts has gone beta and you can start your search and plug in for a treat.
If your question is “What the heck is podcast?”, Yahoo provides an introduction too.
If you are keen on becoming a podcaster, check out the comprehensive step-by-step guide.
Roemer Software has a variety of sound recorders, which can be used as audiocast software to create audiocasting ready audio content.
If you would like to a FREE version, check out the “FREE Hi-Q Recorder“, else the paid software “Easy Hi-Q Recorder” has many more features. Get one that fit your needs 🙂
A podcast article by W.Richardson, making some observations that more and more pple and education embracing audiocasting. Looking at some of these files, the file size are very big! The greatest obstacle is to find storage (read reliable storage) now.
[source: eSchoolNews]
One greatest problem with audio/video blog is storage space. Reading this post off Bee’s blog, obviously, there are more and more servers that allow people to upload and “share your legal videos and audio files”
Just to name a few to explore:
Ourmedia, BlogMatrix, OliveLink
Got to spend some time to explore, if we can host our sound/video file on this server(s) and the postings can still reside in Blogger.com. How exciting!
Initial exploration here.