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entertainment,
and an older brother might want the automotive
section, and the youngest child in the house
will probably ask for the comic section.
The newspaper was delivered to the front door,
Dad went outside in his slippers and picked
it up, and the paper was distributed to the
house according to the interests of the people
in the family.
While the idea might generalize the interests
of the people living near house, the weekly
newspaper-section-grab is played out across
America.
People's lives are busy and not everyone is
interested in everything all the time! You don't
have
the time to cut through the clutter of information,
you simply want to get at the thing that
interests you, and ignore the rest.
As the information age increases, and the availability
of content seems to grow exponentially
every single day, the need for organization
and selectivity of information and entertainment
becomes more and more important.
The Internet has allowed exactly this kind of
selectivity, except there is still a sense of
you
having to go out and find the information you're
looking for (for example, through a search
engine) and then choose from a list of related
choices.
Podcasting has changed that. Podcasting lets
you choose the types of information or
entertainment you're interested in getting,
and then it automates the process by downloading
new
shows as they are updated.
You'll learn a lot through this book as you
go from beginner to pro. But don't lose sight
of the
most important thing: podcasting can be a convenient
way to be entertained or informed, but
most importantly, it's a lot of fun!
You're going to hear a lot of technical terms
and do a little legwork to get your first podcast
into
the world, but don't let that slow you down.
Have fun with it!
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Podcasting
For Fun and Profit!