Podcasting is an unique offering of our time. It allows you access to social media - to listen to content that interests you, and has not be censored by multi-national media corporations and producers.

Podcasting is a term that was devised to describe the technology used to make audio content from websites available to consumers to play on their computers, mobile phones, iPods or any players that support mp3.

The term podcasting is meant to rhyme with broadcasting and is a derivative of the iPod platform.

The key is the content can be played at your convenience. Podcasting is not unlike time-shifted video software and devices like TiVo, which let you watch what you want when you want by recording and storing video, except that podcasting is used for audio and is currently free of charge.

Podcasting uses a technology called RSS, or 'Really Simple Syndication' through an auto-generated file called an RSS feed.

What makes podcasting special is that it allows individuals to publish (podcast) radioshows, that interested listeners can subscribe to.

Subscribing and playing podcasts is easy!

You can either:

• play the podcast anytime and anywhere you like, by downloading podcast 'aggregator' software to your computer and then copying the following whales-online RSS feed into the 'URL' or 'feed' field of the software:
  http://www.whales-online.org/podcast/podcast.rss
  This address is also on the whales-online website and identified with this symbol
  
  We recommend using 'Juice' as your podcast aggregator. 'Juice' works on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms, its very easy to use, and its free! http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net



• or, if you prefer, you can play the whales-online podcasts direct from:
  www.whales-online.org anywhere were you see this symbol
  or through the following sites:
  www.podcastalley.com (search: whales-online)
  www.podcastpickle.com/cast/25565
  www.podfeed.net (search: whales-online)