Blog 3- Podcast are butt

Podcasting

With all the new forms of media popping up, it is hard to keep track of what we already have out there for us as tools. One type of “smaller potatoes” is called podcasting, which has been around since 2004. Podcasting was created by by a former MTV disc jockey named Adam Curry, and a software developer named Dave Winer. The program was first called iPodder, and what it did was allow him to download internet radio broadcast directly to his iPod. This seemed like a great idea to designers and they took the iPodder and improved upon it to turn it into podcasting ( Watson 2014). 

I think that the podcast is a good idea, however I think it is just an extension of many other form of social media. There are other kinds of new media like social networking sites, television, and mobile devices with all kinds of apps on them. Youtube is a good example of something that is some what like a podcast, you can watch videos on anything. Its also just as easy to set up a youtube account and make videos as it to make a podcast. There is also a better chance of being noticed and getting more views on youtube rather than a podcast, if thats what your looking for. These other forms of media simply account for anything a podcast can do and way more. People more often than not are listening to music or playing a game and not listening to a podcast. Podcast also take up a lot more file space compared to a normal mp3 file. Another issue is that someone could be taking your work and using it as their own, there are multiple procedures needed to prevent this from happening. Ive used podcast before and I don’t believe its the easiest method to watching videos or listening to a program. I don’t think that podcast should be done away with, I just think that over time people that have been using podcast will get away from it and use the newer forms of media.

Watson, Stephanie. "How Podcasting Works." HowStuffWorks. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Apr. 2014.