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This section will demonstrate the steps needed to make your audio
files available to podcast subscribers. To accomplish this goal,
you will learn how to use a blog to podcast. This tutorial uses
the services Blogger,
FeedBurner, and FeedValidator, but there
are other ways to accomplish this.
What Is A Podcast?
Podcasting is a term given to Web feeds of audio or video files
for a user to subscribe to. The most common term for these downloaded
files is an "episode." Podcasting allows
a subscriber to download all episodes of a podcast that he or she
may have missed since the last obtained episode. While the most
common use of podcasting is to subscribe to audio programs, it is
certainly possible for these programs to be of any multimedia type.
What makes a podcast work is something called an RSS file. This
file is essentially an XML file which contains something called
an "enclosure." The enclosure gives the
information for a podcast episode and allows podcatching programs
to distinguish new episodes from those that you may already have.
What You Need To Do
There are several main steps you need to take in order to create
your own podcast. You will learn how to create a blog to post your
media, create your RSS feed file, and publish this feed file for
others to see. As said before, the services you will use are the
blog service Blogger
and the service
FeedBurner.
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