You do not need an iPod or other portable music player to listen to podcasts. If you're reading this now, you have everything you need to listen to my podcasts, with the possible exception of the free iTunes software.

God's iPod is one of the first Christian podcasting outlets that has regular daily podcasts produced at a professional level. God's iPod has gained a top position in Apple's iTunes Music Store which has helped it gain rapid growth. In my first 4 days of podcasting, I had amassed over 600 subscribers, now estimated to be well over 70,000, growing more than 35% per month. God's iPod has quickly attained a leadership position, and I plan to continue this through the creation of exciting original content aimed at 12-35 year olds. My aim is to provide resources for new believers, to feed them good solid Biblical teaching and help raise up a new generation of believers who have strong, solid relationships with God, actually read/listen to their Bibles, and know more scripture than John 3:16 and John 14:6. Please consider supporting my efforts.

Podcast definition:
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 MP3 player. However, listening to podcasts does not require a portable player and it is not traditional "broadcasting" to a mass audience at a fixed time.

The word "podcasting" is a linguistic blend 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.

Podcasting's essence is about creating content (audio or video) for an audience that wants to listen when they want, where they want, and how they want.

Podcasting versus broadcasting and streaming
Subscribing to podcasts allows a user to collect programs from a variety of sources for listening or viewing offline at whatever time and place is convenient. In contrast, traditional broadcasting provides only one source at a time, and the time is broadcaster-specified. While podcasts are gaining ground on personal sites and blogs, they're not yet widespread. One easy way to find podcasts is to use the Podcast Directory in iTunes; these automatically-updated podcasts can then be easily synchronised to your iPod for offline listening.

"Streaming" files from the Internet can remove the specified-time restriction, but still offers only one source at a time, and requires the user to be connected to the Internet while playing the files. The ability to "aggregate" programs from multiple sources is a major part of the attraction of podcast-listening.

Although streamed programs, like broadcast radio signals, can be recorded or captured by the receiver, their transient nature distinguishes them from podcast episodes, which arrive already in archived form.

The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary declared "podcasting" the 2005 word of the year in December, defining the term as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player"
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