The BBC World Service's flagship technology radio programme, Go Digital, will be available as a podcast from today as presenter Gareth Mitchell explains. Gareth picks up some tips on podcasting from Adam Curry |
It is a chilly winter's day and the Go Digital producer and I are in Guildford just outside London to track down a former MTV presenter called Adam Curry.
He is one of the pioneers of podcasting and we are here to interview him about the phenomenon.
Minutes later, we are in a hotel lobby and, with his Apple PowerBook on his lap, Adam shows us the delights of listening to podcasts. Just go to a podcasting website, click on a programme you fancy and download it to your iPod or MP3 player just as you would with music tracks.
It is the 21st century equivalent of pirate radio. Anyone with basic audio editing software, an internet connection and some ideas can make a radio show, dubbed a podcast, and put it up online.
Adam played us podcasts from tap dancing newsreaders, people sounding off whilst sitting on the toilet, wine tasters and car maintenance enthusiasts. From web to pod
Whilst talkative types in their bedrooms, living rooms and even bathrooms have been uploading their wares, so have the big broadcasters.
The BBC has been podcasting one or two of its shows for some time and in April, it announced 20 more programmes to be podcast as part of a six month trial.  Gareth pleased to be a podcaster |
It was smiles all round in the Go Digital office when we heard that we would be on the scheme too.
The webcast of our show and audio have both been available on our website since we launched in 2001. But these have been streaming, so you have had to sit at your computer to get them.
From this week, you can download the programme and listen to it on your MP3 player whenever you like. Moreover, with podcasting software, you can subscribe and make sure that Go Digital automatically updates each week.
If you have never heard Go Digital before, podcasting will be a great way of finding out what we are all about.
Each week, we bring you the latest gadgets, novel uses of technology in the far flung corners of the world and analysis of the tech issues that affect you.
Go Digital even offers you people playing clips of gentlemen putting the world to rights in their toilet and it is all available every week on air, online and now on an MP3 player or iPod near you.
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