Emerging Technology Post 1: Podcasting

 The emerging technology under investigation by me this week has been the use of pod-casting. There are several different ways to make your own podcast. A podcast is an audio file posted on the internet either on a blog, social networking site, website, or anything via the internet. The first and easiest one is the use of audacity with lame mp3 encoder library. All you need to do is download audacity  from this site http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/beta_windows#recdown  , then download v 3.98.3 of lame from this site http://lame.buanzo.com.ar/ . When the downloads are done you can start to mess with audacity and the different ways to make podcast. Another step in making a podcast an mp3 is to open audacity, go to edit, click on preferences then depending on what version of windows you have either click on libraries with windows 7 or click on file formats with a previous version. Then with windows 7 click on locate mp3 library and find lame unless it has already done that. With a previous version you need to click on find library and then a pop-up screen comes up with yes or no click yes and it should find it for you. With this being my first experience I found it was very easy to save an mp3 file. Just for you first podcast keep it simple. Don't make it seem more difficult than it really is and you should be fine.