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Our survey showed that only 1% of online households in North America regularly download and listen to podcasts. And when you include all of the people who are just interested or have used podcasts, they strongly favor listening to existing content like Internet radio or broadcast radio, not necessarily new content. (And for newspapers thinking about podcasting, putting print stories into audio format just ranked ahead of original content from bloggers) I think this has something to do with 1) original content just isn’t as well known; and 2) existing content benefits from users that simply want to time shift it.

Welcome to the world of podcasting. Podcasting is a new hobby that allows users to create audio files that will be heard throughout the world by the means of an rss feed. Podcasting, thus, allows users to create audio, and they can attach this audio to their rss feed. This rss feed can be downloaded through itunes or other podcast aggregators. Podcasting is the new internet hobby.

Podcast是「iPod」跟「broadcast」兩個字複合之後衍生出的新字，意指透過iPod或其他ＭＰ３播放器而收聽的網路廣播。就如同部落格的出現，大幅降低了線上出版的門檻，Podcast的出現則讓「廣播」的門檻降到最低：只要一部電腦、一支麥克風，加上一條網路線，任何人都可以在任何地方對全世界廣播。

根據路透社報導指出，不到一年的時間，全世界已經累計600萬人正在聆聽一種剛崛起的傳播方式「Podcast」。這是一種類似於Blog的個人創作方式，不同在於它是以MP3格式，整合RSS的技術和網路下載的方式，可在iPod或其它攜帶式MP3隨身聽上收聽，隨著攜帶式MP3隨身聽的快速普及，Podcast的影響力也持續增加中。

用Podcast學中文，聽起來滿好的！不知道何時臺灣才會有這樣的服務？

We begin it with a weekly “buzzwords” program. Buzzwords, as a weekly column in every Monday’s Shanghai Daily, has been telling our Chinese and English-speaking readers how to say in each other’s language the most popular words doing the rounds in Shanghai.

因为最近感到优质Podcast好少，以前的不是听腻了，就是制作人没有定期的作品。就去在刚开始测试的雅虎播客（Yahoo!Podcasts)上面乱逛，看到一个教外国人中文的ChinesePod。听了几辑，觉得很好玩，哇哈哈。

2005年是播客輝煌的一年，特別是中文播客。連家母都成了播客，還能說不是麼？

這是一個看起來就覺得很舒服的Blog，Matthew也是知名的播客。

覺得讀書要看密密麻麻的文字很累嗎！那麼，用聽的如何？

“虽然在当前，播客还根本不能称得上是一个‘产业’，可以说它只是一种现象，但是如果照此速度发展的话，很快它就可能成为一个产业，一个有着巨大潜力的产业。”国内第一家播客网站的创始人“土豆网”CEO王微告诉记者。

本Blog的任務就是在這兩種人之間搭一個橋樑，把不聽播客/PodCast的那些人送到橋樑的另一端。