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Podcasts PODCAST INFORMATION
Average Joe Answer: The term comes from combining "iPod" and "broadcast". An easy way to understand it is "audio on demand". You listen when it's convenient for you. Early bird or night owl, podcasting can fit your schedule! Techie Answer: Audio content delivered via RSS . No! You can listen to podcasts on your computer using Windows Media Player (Windows) or Real Player (Mac). If you recently purchased an MP3 player for use with our downloadable audio book program, you most likely are ready to go using Windows Media Player. You also can download podcasts to any brand of MP3 player and listen on the go, in the car, while you work out, on the bus, wherever! If you prefer, you can download the podcasts and burn them to CD for use in your car stereo, home stereo or portable CD player. Podcast programming is growing by leaps and bounds! Music, travel, politics, lectures - you name it- and you are likely to find something on the web. Some podcasts are better than you can imagine and some are dreadful. You have to be willing to experiment and discover what meets your taste and production value expectations. Several websites offer directories of podcasts. Here are some: You could visit the websites directly that offer them and download them to your computer, but the easiest way is to use a "podcatcher". [See next entry] A podcatcher is software that allows you to subscribe to your favorite podcasts using their RSS feeds. When new content or episodes are available, your podcatcher will automatically download them for you, and then you're ready to listen to them on your computer, burn them to CD, or transfer them to your MP3 player. Popular podcatchers include: Juice(formerly iPodder) for Windows, Mac or Linux FeedDemon for Windows • What does it cost to download or listen to a podcast? Nothing. It's free! Some video podcasts require a fee, depending on the producer (for example, recent episodes of popular television programs). Thank you to the Lansing , Illinois Public Library for much of this Q & A content
Library Podcasts & Streaming Video The Hingham Public Library is pleased to present two video interviews with Seth Mnookin, author of Feeding the Monster: how money,smarts, and nerve took a team to the top. Seth Mnookin visited the Hingham Public Library on 7/31/06 to talk about his bestselling book and kindly agreed to participate in our first video production for the Library's Speaking Volumes series. Thanks too to Simon & Schuster for making Seth's visit to HPL possible. In the coming months the Library will offer additional interviews with authors and special guests. Stay tuned to hinghamlibrary.org for future podcasts . The Library is seeking sponsors to assist with underwriting the costs of future productions. Contact the Library Director for more information by writing to hilib@ocln.org or by calling 781-741-1405. View Part One:Seth Mnookin speaking on Red Sox management View Part Two: Seth Mnookin speaking on the Red Sox players
Our sponsors for the Seth Mnookin interview are Derby Street Shoppes of Hingham, MA and Library programming partner Buttonwood Books and Toys of Cohasset, MA. The video podcasts were produced by Superlative Solutions of Scituate, MA.
Enhance your summer travel plans with podcasts So.you're going on vacation. Your iPod or favorite MP3 player is loaded with new music and a favorite audio book you've downloaded from our website. Done? Almost but not quite! We've got some great travel podcasts for you to consider before you leave. What's a podcast? Fair question. Podcasts are audio recordings posted on-line that you can download to an iPod and MP3 players for free. All you need is a computer with Internet access and your player. Check our information on this site "Getting started with podcasting" for a more complete explanation. Listed below is a small selection of travel-oriented podcasts we have sampled and can recommend to you. A great place to search for travel podcasts is www.digitalpodcast.com . Go to digitalpodcast and select travel. Place your destination in the search box and chances are you'll find a podcast. Our list is comprised of "amateur", independently produced shows nestled along side polished, professionally produced radio shows. Amateur as we've used the term means the program is produced, most likely on a shoe-string budget by a travel enthusiast without corporate-backing or by someone who simply seeks an outlet to share his or her knowledge or love for a particular place.
Amateur Traveler is for people who love to travel--all over the place. It focuses on travel stories with a dash of travel news, travel tips and travel resources. Season with humor and serve weekly. Production qualities are a bit uneven but the content is diverse and rewarding. Josh in Japan is a weekly podcast about life in Japan for those of us who aren't Japanese. Learn about all kinds of interesting topics, and events. Josh is open to requests as well. You got a question about the land of the rising sun, ask him! Travel Wise Weekly professional travel writers submit weekly articles from around the globe. Features one destination each in its podcast. Good stuff and as you might expect, well-written. Trends Taste and Travel Captain Cy Emerus is your Host for Trends, Taste and Travel. Captain Cy is an airline captain who has spent the last 35 years taking travelers to exotic destinations the world over. Captain Cy is enthusiastic and likable but commercials can interfere with the flow and depth of interviews. They pay the bills for the radio show and we probably shouldn't carp. MosaicSF does San Francisco . Every week MosaicSF takes a very close look at the colorful, and not so colorful, characters and stories that make up the mosaic that is San Francisco . Very humorous. Check out the episode about the Mission and the local firemen taste-testing burritos. Sparkletack supplies bite-sized chunks of history and culture from my favorite city, San Francisco, from the wild days of the Barbary Coast to the particularities of modern life--weekly observations and stories from America's left coast. This is absolutely the best podcast on SF and one of the best podcasts on the Web. The Sparkletack host and producer creates these episodes as a labor of love and it shows. Boston needs its version of Sparkletack. Someone step up please! liveIreland, Dublin, Ireland. The latest Irish music, audio tours and news from Ireland. 'Twill do your heart good. Give a listen. London Walks Download these real time walks onto your MP3 player. No need for guide books or maps. No getting lost. Walk with your personal guide through less well-known parts of London little frequented by tourists. Walkies! Rough Guides iToors podcasts are dramatic walking and driving tours and feature travel information. According to the publisher, this is the world's most listened-to travel podcast. It is for those of us who wish to journey like a traveler, not a tourist. Bon Voyage. i came, i saw, i toored. You also can find travel-themed offerings from Budget Travel Online, Lonely Planet and Frommers. Experiment a little to see which ones match your personal taste and style. You may have to look around their sites to locate the podcasts. Travels with Rick Steves is a weekly one-hour conversation with guest experts and callers about travel, cultures, people, and the things we find around the world that give life its extra sparkle. Rick Steves is America 's leading authority on travel to Europe and beyond. Host and writer of over a hundred public television travel shows and author of 30 best-selling guidebooks, Rick brings his passion for exploring and understanding our world to public radio and to podcasting. This is a must listen to show for travel enthusiasts. Rick is a master of the travel podcast. 808Talk: Hawaii 's Premier Podcast two guys talking about events, happenings, and pretty much everything that is going on in Hawaii . V.Brown a.k.a. 808Rider and his good friend J. "BigDaddy" Plummer have been hosting this very popular podcast where they discuss the crazy happenings that go on in their Island Paradise. The site often features what Brown calls "Jawaiian" music, a mixture of Jamaican and Hawaiian music. Odds are, your curiosity about the music has hooked you and your next click is www.808Talk.com . Even Virgin Atlantic Airlines produces podcasts and they make great listening. Select the New York podcast. Is Tony Soprano working a little side gig?
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Seth
Mnookin is the author of the New York Times bestseller
None
of the podcasts can replace a good travel guide but you'll discover
they add value and enjoyment to your travel experience. Now, before
you close your carry-on, download a few of these and make sure you
stick'em in your ears. You'll thank us (we hope).