iTunes and Podcasts

With the explosion of the internet one thing that is undeniable is that the amount of media that is available for everyone is outstanding. We have access to millions of audio and video files at the tips of our fingers. The beauty of this is that most of it is free. The best part about iTunes is that you can get a vast number of different podcasts for free with the click of a button. All you do is go to the podcast section and browse for podcasts in what category you want and then you can press Get or even Get All, a button that will download every single podcast for you with one touch. It is pretty amazing what kind of access we have now that the internet is a competitive domain for publishers and creative beings alike.

Blogging also gives readers a way to read as much as they can possibly ingest for free--The internet is home to over 156 million public blogs (as of Feb 2011). That's a lot of reading to do! People can just read as much as they aspire to. Suprisingly a lot of bloggers are well articulated and can write out posts as high quality as most well-written books. The term 'blogger' has become a profession now with people getting paid a full-scale salary for guest blogging and writing on popular websites. Websites like mashable and theonion put out new articles every day and are viewed by hundreds of thousands of visitors a day. You can't mess with the gauge of the internet. There is no longer as much a need for television or newspapers. News anchors are announcing celebrity tweets instead of reporting like they used to.

Websites like Wordpress and Blogger make it super easy to type out a post, as easy as point and click. Users can even install plugins that majorly change the way that browsers view their websites. Plugins like Facebook Lite allow Facebook users to chat on posts, showing their facebook profile pictures instead of having a default avatar. Other plugins like Contact Form 7 allow people to send out emails from precreated forms. Everything is easy to do now. In the past, users needed a basic knowledge of Hypertext Markup Language to create html files with tables, paragraphs, and change fonts and styling in order to make their messages known. The term 'blog' was not even well-known.