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So what the heck is podcasting? It sounds like it has something to do with aliens and fishing, but basically, it allows people to subscribe to audio programs, professional and otherwise. That is, instead of going online and listening to a show or a broadcast on your computer, you can program your computer, by using the right software, to regularly update and download certain programs. It’slike TiVo for your MP3 player.

Podcasting puts you in charge of the show (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

In little more than the time it takes to write and post a new diary entry to a traditional text-based blog page, anyone with a camcorder and the right $99 software can now become a “vlogger,” or video blogger — the latest advancement in the 4-year-old weblogging phenomenon that Forbes recently proclaimed as “the ‘it’ thing” in tech trends for 2005.

The ME Show (Phoenix New Times)

Much of the ink on podcasting has been devoted to the technology as a challenge to traditional radio, as independent programmers put together their own shows that anyone can download. But traditional broadcasters are also seizing on podcasts as one more way to reach audiences, including those not currently tuned in.

Local stations are tuning into podcasting (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

According to reports filed by Malaysia’s only independent online news provider, “Malaysiakini.com”, Mack Zulkifli, a blogger for a new weblog called brandmalaysia, was visited by a four-member team in his house in Subang Jaya on 14 March. Two police officers and two unidentified government officials asked the writer to help them “understand the latest development of weblogs”, Zulkifli said. The blogger then spent the next three hours answering questions about blogs and how its contents can be controlled. He said he was also asked about his motivations for maintaining his site when he appeared to derive no income from it.

A new Malaysian blogger targeted for policing (Southeast Asian Press Alliance)

The current range of vlog content on the Web varies as widely — perhaps even more widely — than its text counterpart. The oeuvre ranges from some very slickly-produced material (the daily rocketboom.com starring an actress who previously appeared on NBC’s The Restaurant) to a wide range of personal idiosyncrasies: a vlogger eats a grapefruit; video of a 1999 Silicon Valley pool party; a vlogger goes jogging; some guys in L.A. meet for coffee. And there are already lots of kids: kids learning to ski, learning to mow the lawn, even learning how to vlog.

Ready for your close-up? Here come the vlogs (MSNBC)

Think of podcasting as audio blogging to-go. The RSS technology makes it simpler to produce and to distribute than Internet radio. “It’s one thing to write things down,” Henke said. “It’s another thing to verbalize. And it’s a whole other thing to be able to not only talk to family and friends but to verbalize your thoughts to people you can’t see and don’t know. That’s powerful.”

Podcasting: the 21st century soapbox (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)