podcasting

is a term recently considered as the new generation of radio where you can easily tune-in the growing sources of audio just like listening to the radio from your desktop (and if you are priviledge enough to own an iPod, then you can sync it and voila it becomes commutable). the other side of the coin is that you are not only able to listen, you can even make your own radio station. all that's needed is the software from Apple, the iTunes (freely downloadable here) to help you easily manage the podcasts (and sync-in with iPod later on). if you are familiar with audio-blogging, i'd reckon they are pretty much the same thing, but perhaps the audio-streaming in audio-blogging (never try that though) could be sluggish where you have to wait for the stream-files to be downloaded by pieces.

many have started taking advantages of podcasting (the laws to regulate the copyrights issue of podcasting materials is yet on the way, so be careful there may be nasty sources that are illegal as well). one example is some churches are starting to post their sermons in the mp3 files format by way of podcasting.

once you started to build your own libraries, you can rss-fed the audio topics to your desktop, exactly the text style rss-fed. just by googling, you would get many podcasting sites to suit your interests (or choosing your favourite stations).

moreover, you can ramble to your liking (and bored people out of their couch).