Pod-casting has become one of the most easiest form to obtain entertainment. You can download a podcast on just about any topic. Pod-casts origin stems from blogging. Blogging allows people to share thoughts, frustrations  and rants about any topic via the internet.

With the development of RSS feeds, fans can subscribe to their favorite bloggers news feeds and receive alerts when they post a new entry.  Not only do fans receive news feeds about our favorite bloggers or topics they receive news feed about similar bloggers. Developers made the ability to transfer large pieces of information faster by improving internet connections. Bloggers began producing audio blogs.  Instead of writing their thoughts they recorded themselves and posted to their blog sites.  Audio blogs had to be downloaded on to an mp3, this process could be bothersome because fans had to constantly check for new post and then download them on their mp3 player.

This led developers to look or an easier way for bloggers to produce audio blogs and they created the pod-cast. Pod-cast became known as  amateur radio.  Some of the topics makes me wonder who on earth would want to listen to this.  However their seems to be a market for everything. Levinson mentions the popularity of Grammar A Girl which generates millions of hits by fans who want to improve their writing.

Topics can range from sewing to astronomy.  You can learn how to cook a gourmet meal or how to use proper grammar. You can listen to someone talk for hours about bat man or some historical event.  These topics would not make the professional radio’s programming, however there is a huge  audience that will listen to them.  If you are passionate about topic you can find it on a podcast. I personally will listen to the podcast about cooking and making crafts.