Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Definitions - Podcasting, Digital Storytelling

Here are the definitions I came across on Wikipedia:

A podcast is a collection of digital media files which is distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The term, like "radio", can refer either to the content itself or to the method by which it is syndicated; the latter is also termed podcasting. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.

Though podcasters' web sites may also offer direct download or streaming of their content, a podcast is distinguished from other digital media formats by its ability to be syndicated, subscribed to, and downloaded automatically when new content is added, using an aggregator or feed reader capable of reading feed formats such as RSS or Atom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

Digital Storytelling refers to using new digital tools to help ordinary people to tell their own real-life stories. The broad definition has been used by innumerable artists and producers to link their practices with traditions of oral storytelling and often to delineate work from the highly produced commercial or conceptual projects by focusing on authorship and humanistic or emotionally provocative content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling

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