{"id":712,"date":"2005-06-14T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T16:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2005\/06\/podcasting_why_you_should_care\/"},"modified":"2005-06-14T09:06:30","modified_gmt":"2005-06-14T16:06:30","slug":"podcasting_why_you_should_care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/podcasting_why_you_should_care.php","title":{"rendered":"Podcasting: Why you should care"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked about ”podcasting”<\/a> way back in December, and suggested it was an interesting technology\/trend to watch. The technology showed up again in an entry earlier this month<\/a>, as a rogue group of art lovers were creating and distributing their own audio guides to MoMA exhibits. Now, there are lots of reasons to pay even more<\/i> attention.<\/p>\n

In a nutshell, ”podcasting” combines a number of technologies that allow you to ”subscribe” to audio files on-line to play back on your personal audio player (iPod and such) or your computer. As content creators post new audio files (which can be interviews, monologues, music files, whatever), your computer automatically grabs them and adds them to your music player. It’s like listening to a portable radio, but where you<\/i> decide what shows to hear, when to hear them, and how long you care to listen (some personal favorites include Tod Maffin’s How to Do Stuff<\/a> and KCRW’s The Business<\/a>).<\/p>\n

So, why should you care now more than you did (or didn’t) last December? Several reasons:<\/p>\n