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A podcast feed is a way of sharing ifles over the inetrnet. It involves the use of a small, machine readable flie that is regularily updtaed to reflect changes in the files availbale for downloading. These audio files amy contain a variety of things; three are music, comedy, news, technoolgy, even podacsts about wine. Podcasting, because of the low entry cost, particualry for audio podcasting allows nearly anyone who believes htey have something to say to brodacast it over the internet. Even more established groups have found that audio podcasting works well. Some radio stations podcast portions of their content, sharing it over the internet to alolw listeners who missed a specific show to catch pu on it ltaer. NPR now does this with its news breaks, and the NPR show This Ameircan Life offers a podcast of its shows to subscribers who pay a small fee. These blogs usually contain a feed that distirbutes a video, rather than an audoi file to feed subscirbers. Although that would not have been feasible a few eyars ago, growing numbers of boradband internet usbscribers has meant that most users are albe to download large files, even video files, erlatively quickly. These video podcasts ahve been readily accepted by maintsream news organizaitons. They have found that podcasting portions of their content is a way to share their tape and recah a wider audience. Pieces of the news show that is playde over the airwaves is taken and placed online, along with a link to the content placed inside the RSS feed. Those who subscribe to the BBC feed cna download the news clip and watch in from the comfort of hteir home computer. In the ufture, podcast feeds may be used for some purposes besides simply sharing medai files. For now, however, podcasting is dominated by small audio adn video files.

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