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Podcasting Power


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Grab your MP3 player, head outdoors and tune in to your favorite radio program you missed this morning. How is this possible? You've downloaded the podcast. The word podcast combines iPod and broadcast. This combination reveals what podcast are: broadcasts you can listen to on an iPod or other MP3 player. MTV video jockey Adam Curry and software developer Dale Winer got the ball rolling in 2004. Curry wrote a computer program that automatically download online broadcasts to his iPod. Other people also write software and websites began hosting podcast programs, and podcasting ( the online broadcasting of podcasts) develpoed.
Everyone from DJs to language teachers became podcasters - people who make podcasts

Listen to a podcast
Podcasts range from professional news broadcasts to homemade comedy shows. Accessing the contents is easy. Visit a website that offers podcasts or download and install on your computer a software program that collects podcasts automatically. Download individual episodes, or subscribe to a certain podcast program via its RSS feed. With RSS technology, new episodes are automatically downloaded to your computer. Transfer them to an MP3 player and listen on the go.




download v.
eg: Michael download a software program so he could type in Japanese.
eg: Downloadint this software takes about 5 minutes.
eg: I tried to download a song but didn't succeed.

download n.
eg: The website offers free downloads.

get the ball rolling -> start something 開始著手某件事
eg: Once we hired a new coworker, we got the ball rolling on this project.
eg: There are several topics we need to discuss. Who wants to get the ball rolling?

keep the ball rolling 讓某件事情不中斷
eg: We're trying to keep the ball rolling by raising money for our project.

access v.
eg. You can access the Internet with this cell phone.


on the go -> constantly in activity 忙碌/在活動
eg: Let's drive to school and buy some sandwiches we can eat on the go.
eg: This Compaq notebook is suitable for people who are on the go all the time.
eg: With cell-phones, you can contact people on the go.


VJ -> video jockey
DJ -> disk jockey



//== Chat room ==//

technology challenged -> had hard time understanding technology 對科技不擅長
physically challenged -> had disabilities


videocasting
open source 開放式原始碼


//== More info ==//

RSS is a kind of technology that allows you to "subscribe" to frequently updated websites like blogs. podcasts or news sites automatically. With RSS, there's no need to check each site, every time you log on. Subscribe to the RSS feed by simply adding it to your Internet browser's "favorites." Or, you can use a program like google Reader. That's the magic of RSS.