[Buddha-l] podcasting - was: recommendations for books on Madhyamika

[Michael Paris]

iPods and similar music players use the small-but-efficient MP3 file
format. Any audio file can be recorded (or changed) to MP3 format. Thus
one can carry audio books, lectures, chats - anything verbal - on one's
iPod (or equivalent). Of course, MP3s can also be played on PCs.

So anyone can put her/his thoughts on an MP3 file and place it on the
Internet, usually a web site, for the world to download. This became
known as "podcasting" (as opposed to broadcasting) -- widespread
dissemination of verbal information. Presumably, with the advent of the
video iPod, small video files will soon be 'cast also. 

There are many thousands of podcasts on the web. I enjoy one - Amy
Chavez's Japan Lite. (Japan has _such_ a strange culture.)

Incidentally, since we're discussion broadcasting, there are a few
Buddhist Internet radion stations - LamRim and WZEN come to mind.
Details upon request, either in a post or private.


Michael

--- "Richard P. Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 15:56 -0700, Michael Paris wrote:
> 
> > Not listen to podcasts? That's the trend nowadays, it seems. 
> 
> What on earth is a podcast? Throwing a handful of peas?
> 
> -- 
> Richard Hayes



		
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