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Podcasting: Podcasting is a process that puts audio files (or “podcasts”) online, and allows software to find and download the files to a computer or personal media player.

Podcasts: Podcasts are programs that you can download to your computer or your personal media player and listen to at your own convenience. Using podcast software, you can subscribe to available radio shows. The software will automatically check for and download new programs to either your computer, or your media player. Accessing a podcast feed is just like accessing an RSS feed, in that you subscribe to a feed of a podcaster. The difference between podcast feeds and RSS feeds is that you receive audio content instead of text content.

MP3 Audio Download: A AUDIO file which can be downloaded to your local computerr. MP3 files can be played through any MP3 media player (ex. iTunes, Windows Media Player)

MP3 Streaming Download: A streaming MP3 will begin playing at the same time that it is transferred to your system.

XML RSS FEED: RSS is a family of XML file formats for web syndication used by news websites and weblogs. They are used to provide items containing short descriptions of web content together with a link to the full version of the content. This information is delivered as an XML file called RSS feed, webfeed, RSS stream, or RSS channel.

XML Video Podcast: A file which contains data describing video files. XML video podcast files can be read by certain media players such as iTunes.

XML Audio Podcast: A file which contains data describing audio files. XML Audio Podcast files can be read by certain media players such as iTunes.