The Web: Pols embracing podcasting
By Gene Koprowski
Dec. 7, 2005 at 11:55AM
Howard Dean this week headlined the Democratic National Committee's first "podcast" on the Internet - a brief, recorded audio broadcast that listeners around the globe downloaded, signaling, experts told United Press International's The Web, that podcasting is going mainstream.
The embrace of the technology is a first for the DNC - though during last year's presidential campaign the camps of President Bush and election loser John Kerry relied heavily on an earlier generation of Internet technology to reach voters.
Experts told United Press International's The Web that politicians are usually the last of the early adopters to embrace a new technology before the masses embrace the tool... |