Andy Williams Affleck - Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac

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I updated this ebook to version 2.1 to add coverage of GarageBand 5, which was released in early 2009 in iLife '09. GarageBand 5 is also known as GarageBand '09. To read about GarageBand 5, see (p. 21), but changes relating to GarageBand are sprinkled throughout the book.

The second edition of this book (version 2.0) was published in mid-2008, and it included new advanced techniques and sample sounds. The most important changes were:

I discovered podcasting before it had a name. In August 2004, Adam Curry, a former MTV VJ, began producing a daily show from his home in the Netherlands in which he talked about topics that interested him and he played music he felt like sharing.

Others had produced "audio blogs" before, most notably Dave Winer, who created subscription and update standards first for text and later for attachmentsincluding audiowithout which podcasting couldn't exist. But it wasn't until both Curry wrote some primitive software and Winer popularized it that summer that something gelled, making podcasting a fad, a trend, and now a part of tens of thousands of Web sites.