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Personal Public Radio
I was describing podcasting to a friend on Friday, and I used the phrase "personal public radio". I think that's a good analogy -- NPR and similar networks provide radio shows to local stations who then broadcast them out to an audience. Podcasting allows you to program your own ideal NPR-like station, picking programs, storing them on a local audio player, and playing them back on request. It's like TiVo for the ear, but with the bonus of having access to a universe of niche shows that wouldn't be popular enough to be broadcast over a real radio station, but can find a big audience over the Web.
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