What is Podcasting/RSS?

Podcasting just got easy with the release of iTunes 4.9.
iTunes 4.9 offers full support of Podcasting.

Podcasting is the next generation of Radio.

Subscribe to any of thousands of podcasts, and get automatic updates and downloads of content!

Antioch Bible Baptist's Sermons are already available through iTunes!

1. Download and install iTunes 4.9.
2. Subscribe to AntiochBBC Sermons

RSS / Podcasting at Antioch!

• Sermons Podcast - All sermons on Antioch Online.
  http://antiochbbc.org/rss/sermons.rss.php - Copy and paste into your podcast program.
  
• Sermons Podcast in iTunes - launches Sermons Podcast in iTunes if iTunes 4.9 is installed.
  
• ABBC eNews RSS - Get up-to-the-minute updates from abbc eNews and see past emails.
  http://antiochbbc.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi?f=archive_rss;list=eNews - Copy and paste into your podcast program.

More info:

Wikipedia on RSS:

RSS is widely used by the weblog community to share the latest entries' headlines or their full text, and even attached multimedia files. (See podcasting, broadcatching and MP3 blogs.)

In 2004 and 2005, after several years of use by early adopters, use of RSS spread to many major news organizations, including Reuters, the Associated Press and the BBC. Under various usage agreements, providers allow other websites to incorporate their "syndicated" headline or headline-and-short-summary feeds.

A program known as a feed reader or aggregator can check RSS-enabled webpages on behalf of a user and display any updated articles that it finds. It is now common to find RSS feeds on major web sites, as well as many smaller ones.

Client-side readers and aggregators are typically constructed as standalone programs or extensions to existing programs like web browsers. See List of news aggregators for a list of clients for various operating systems.

Web-based feed readers and news aggregators require no software installation and make the user's "feeds" available on any computer with Web access. Some aggregators syndicate (combine) RSS feeds into new feeds, e.g. take all football related items from several sports feeds and provide a new football feed. There are also search engines for RSS feeds like Feedster, Technorati, Pluck or Plazoo.

Wikipedia on Podcasting:

Podcasting is a method of publishing files via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically. It became popular in late 2004, intended largely for downloading audio files onto a portable audio player. However, listening to podcasts does not require a portable device and it is not traditional "broadcasting" to a mass audience at a fixed time.

The word "podcasting" was coined in February 2004, combining "broadcasting" with the name of Apple Computer's iPod audio player (although podcasting was not invented by Apple, nor do podcasts require a portable player or Apple software).

It is distinct from other types of online audio delivery because of its subscription model, which uses the RSS 2.0 file format. Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated "radio shows", and gives broadcast radio programs a new distribution channel. Listeners may subscribe to feeds using "podcatching" software (a type of "aggregator"), which periodically checks for and downloads new content. Some podcatching software is also able to synchronise (copy) podcasts to portable music players. Any digital audio player or computer with audio-playing software can play podcasts. The same technique can deliver video files, and by 2005 some aggregators could play video as well as audio.

• From Apple (makers of the iPod and iTunes)
• From iPodder (Huge podcast Directory)