What is a 'Podcast'?

A podcast is a section of media which consists on periodic updates through audio files which can be downloaded or viewd directyl on the directory. The word is actually a neologism in between 'pod' and 'broadcast'. It serves as a very portable and 'on-the-move' type of media which allows for a very updated, easy to do and comfortable way to contact your audience, though podcasts can become very complex. It can also be viewed through live streaming instead of downloading. Though downloads, which are stored on the users computer or mobile device, can be automated to assure al new updates by downloading the podcast from the distributor's web feed.
 
These audio podcasts are now also being transformed into video podcasts which include a video. This change is being brought forward thanks to faster and more powerful overall internet connections. It is becoming very popular specially for news updates and some webs are using this new media exclusively though audio podcasts are still very extended and popular. I myself enjoy to listen to Empire Online Magazine's (a film magazine) podcasts.

A place where you can find podcasts is iTunes or the SoundCloud which uses RSS Feed and offers a nice alternative to having to open iTunes though when downloading I recommen iTunes more if you already use it for your day-to-day music management.

And here is my podcast and the last I listen to, which I enjoyed a lot. (Though if you have not yet watched the film "The Dark Knight Rises" don't listen to it because it is a spoiler podcast)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24108971/The%20Empire%20Podcast/Dark%20Knight%20Rises%20Spoiler%20Podcast.mp3

Technology Living in the XXIst Century

Technology is very central in our daily lives. With tablets, smartphones and all kinds of portable devices being developed, improved and released now technology is with us everywhere we go, and very close to us. Businesses and relationships both have come to the depend upon this new technologies that the human being has embraced so willingly.
The technology developer Apple is at the head of this vanguard bringing to the public the mos the efficient apparatus of their kind. The iPad, iPhone, iPod and the Macintosh have all raised the standard of what this products should be like and all have tried to equal them.

Now a days having a computer, or even now a tablet or smartphone can be a substitute, is essential and an internet conection is obligatory to be able to deal with the our modern society and be able to live with it.
So whether you use one system or another, prefer a tablet over a smartphone or just plainly, for now, prefer a PC, desktop or portable depending on your needs and possibilities, one cannot deny that these new and ever developing techonologies are a key part of our lives and current way of living. Because one, cannot survive in the XXIst century without internet and a device that connects us to it.