What is Podcasting?
The word ”podcast” is a combination of the words iPod and broadcast (and no, you don't need an iPod to subscribe and listen to a podcast). The underlying technology used for podcasts, called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is capable of containing any type of media including audio, video, graphics, and more. We are actually using another RSS feed from our home page for recent news.

Podcasting is a way of publishing podcasts to the web, allowing people to subscribe to a podcast and receive new ”episodes” automatically through an RSS feed. Podcasting consists of publishing XML files which contain references to media (called “enclosures”) to a website. Podcast aggregators, like iTunes or Juice (often called “podcatchers”), then read these XML files and download all the linked enclosures.