Podcasting Politician: John Edwards
That's right, folks. John Edwards is launching a podcast.
I can hear you now... "I just figured out what a blog is! What the heck is a podcast?"
Declared "the end of radio" by Wired Magazine, a podcast is way of distributing audio content - usually in the form of a personal radio show. As audio recording equipment gets cheaper and easier to use, it's made podcasting possible. Think of it as micro-radio that you download to your PC, iPod, or other digital music player - and you listen whenever you want.
So... key elements: like radio, but asynchronous (not live), portable, and anyone can do it.
To listen, just download the audio file (usually an mp3). You can, of course, get free podcasting software from iPodder.org that makes it even easier and distributes the audio file to you automagically whenever it's published.
(Amy Gahran comments on John Edwards and provides a guide to podcasting for newbies)
Kari Chisholm | March 21, 2005 | Comments (2) |
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I'm very intrigued... this is so far ahead of the curve for politicos that I think it says something about how the good Senator thinks. I'll reserve judgment on the actual podcast itself until he puts one out though!
Posted by: Tim Mooney | Mar 22, 2005 7:13:33 AM
I loved John Edward's first podcast! It was very unpolitical (i.e. not very polished — and it was done at his kitchen table, or so he says. After all, I've been trained to be skeptical of politicians). Anyways, it's great to see politicians also expirimenting with "citizen media" tools to bypass traditional information brokers, and instead appeal directly to voters.
Posted by: Brendan Watson | Mar 27, 2005 3:15:20 AM
