I thought for a couple of days what to write about, due to the fact that nothing much kept me busy… Though, I came to a conclusion that I’ll write about what did keep me going on all these days.
For the past dozen years, I’ve been hearing many different daily Podcasts…
So what is a Podcast?
A Podcast, is basically a media file (can be audio or video) which is being attached to a RSS (Really Simple Syndication). The RSS with the combination of the media file, makes it a very power full technology. That because different Feeds are being updated daily or weekly.
The programs that manage the different feeds (Podcasts Apps; such as Apple Podcasts app [on iOS] or Samsung KiesCast app [on android]), you listen to — know 🙂 but their definition whether it is a new item, or an old one… Thus notify you for the new ones.
History of RSS…
The RSS first was invented for Text news… News Feeds, were common, yet, attaching a video/audio file to it was a latter invention.
More about Audio Podcasts:
There are some more features which were added to the Feed,. and can be supply attached to the RSS Feed it self, or to the media file which attached to it.
Meta Tags:
Take for example the Meta Tags.
When adding an item for a feed, it includes a text which describe the current item (of course these additions should be supplied in such a way that the miscellaneous Podcasts apps aggregators would know where to look for that data). Due to the fact the the RSS was derived from XML (Extensible Markup Language) files — which is a structured text file, with different variables with in it — It can contain many different Meta Tags.
In addition misc meta tags can be attached to the media file itself. For example a .mp3/.m4a audio files contain a structure that define the file meta tags. And their meta tags can include many different known, or user defined tags. Such as; Track Name, Year Published, Author, Lyrics, Picture Thumbnail — Icon of the track, and so on.
Different Sources of RSS Podcasts:
Today any news organization which respect itself got a team that compile a hourly/daily/weekly podcast. After all, all you need to create a podcast — it the knowledge how to construct the basic feed, and some hardware such as microphone and a recording application… And of course some content to talk about whether it’ll be global news/ Tech news/ Expert news/ Art news/ or any area which interest you.
My personal daily news:
I’ve been listening, as I mentioned, for the past dozen years to news via different podcasts apps, and being fed news from different sources. This of course is a routine change from the past — instead of gazing on a TV screen — I am now free, to hear news — what ever — when even — and where ever — I like.
What Ever; Pick from the billion of podcasts sources online.
Where ever; I can hear news while doing the daily arrangements around the house — when doing the dishes, or any other tasks.
When Ever; Feeds by different sources are usually kept at least for a week and on many cases for years back on different sources. So even if I missed something, or if I would like to listen to new content to me — I can search it years back on the source WebSite.
Or for short the podcasts WWW 🙂