Exercise No. 9 Podcast

Podcast is a kind of web broadcast using a easily disseminating channel to be obtained by the general public. It started from with in no more than a decades.  Because of the convenience, it became flourishing during the past five years. Now you can get a lot of audio materials through Internet. Moreover, you can access to materials from your cell phone.

At the beginning, I searched the Podcast alley. I am not assure but that the podcast rendered in this website can be easily download through Juice, a software that this website recommend to get this podcast. I found an interesting podcast about Irish and Celtic music Podcast. It updates bi-monthly. The main speaker is Marc Gunn. The content is much fantastic. As you know from the topic, it provide a lot of "interesting" music from Irish culture. Some instrument like Bagpipe will be heard in this podcast. And, in my humble opinion,  some other "weired' singer. The music genre here is much more unconventional, nonacademic, folklore and a little bit isolated taste.

Subsequently, I searched the Podcast.com. Here the Podcast collection is much more bigger than Podcast alley. You might say that  all most every kind of podcast can be seem here. Juice seems not workable in this site. But you still can access online. One of the most interesting thing I found here is the Beethoven symphonies in nine days, which is rendered by the CBC radio 2. It is a elaborate introduction of Beethoven's nine symphonies. The speakers includes Bill Richardson and Bramwell Tovey, music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Tovey demonstrate a lot of details about them by piano. In my opinion, it is worth to listen. The other interesting material I found is the podcast from The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. It seems to be the introduction of libraries service for undergraduate freshman. It includes JHsearch, citation guideline and virtual library service. In my opinion, it portray the general idea of library service.


It is quite funny to learn Podcast here. Because it is not flourishing in Chinese world,only a few will  use it in Taiwan. However, I can still find some interesting thing there.