Podcasts

I've never really caught onto the podcast thing, so this gave me a chance to look into it a little bit. Podcasts can be equated to am radio on the web. Anyone can post an audio clip about anything, sort of like audio blogging. There are different degrees of podcasting from amateur to some very professional sounding clips I heard on podcastalley.com. The really cool thing about podcasts is that you can subscribe to have them downloaded automatically for mp3 players, similar to RSS feeds.

I saw a lot of libraries using podcasts to promote upcoming events, books, service announcements, etc. I think this is a great idea for libraries. Podcasts appear to be easy enough to set up and use, I think they will become even more popular in libraries in the future. I found a good list of library pobcasts at :http://www.libraryspot.com/podcast/othercasts.htm (in addition to their podcast at: http://www.libraryspot.com/podcast).