Sterne et al., "The Politics of Podcasting"

• Summary of podcasting
• Recording of speech
• people talking about a subject
• Distributed in .mp3 format
• Circulated through rss
• Really simple syndication
• You subscribe to feeds and they get compiled into a single page
• It’s like a YouTube subscription but for all kinds of things
• Or like a Facebook wall
• Or kinds like Twitter (you subscribe to people)
• It made its bones with blogs
• iPods and other portable music players are big here
• History
• from the time of a more open internet
• Less dominated by big players
• Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
• Early services were significant
• Shoutcast
• Roots with things like
• amateur radio
• HAM radio
  
• Pirate radio
• Public radio
• Talk shows
• YouTube live streaming
• Although these are visual, unedited, and synchronous