Purists might define podcasts very narrowly as audio files that can be captured and played on a digital audio player. Podcatchers such as iTunes and Juice can be used to automatically download podcasts and transfer those files to a digital audio player such as an iPod or the MobiBLU DAH-1500i (“the cube”).
Personally, I don’t own a digital audio player. I manually download podcasts, use Roxio CD Creator to create a music CD and burn the podcast onto a CD. After that, I just play the audio CD on my car stereo to help make it through the long commute.
Since Barb Poole wrote about podcasts the other day, I thought I’d throw in my 2-cents worth and list three podcasts in addition to the ones she mentioned. New episodes appear fairly regularly on these sites.
Dick Eastman occasionally throws a podcast into Eastman’s Online Genealogical Newsletter; the most recent podcast entitled Excavating Grandma’s Privy for Family History Data was posted on June 15, 2006. Wow! What a title to get your attention! Earlier this month, Dick’s podcasts covered an interview with Liz Kerstens about Clooz 2.0 and an interview with Christine Rose about her book Courthouse Research for Family Historians.
I’ve found several other genealogy podcasts on the web, but most of them appear to have been one-time or short-lived podcasts. That doesn’t mean the content is uninteresting or non-informative. Further discussion of these “orphan” podcasts will have to wait for another day.
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