I personally have never heard a podcast before. I know what they are and how to find them, but I never actually took the time to download one. I remember that when I was looking at them (through itunes), I noticed that all of them are free. This was a new concept to me, seeing as everything in today's world costs money. However, podcasts are almost like a free subscription to an online magazine. After reading both these articles, I would say I'm definitely more interested in the podcast. Besides the fact that it's free, it's also very informative. You can find podcasts on current events, poetry readings, author interviews, and virtual tours. It's easy to access, locate, download and listen as well. All you need is an internet connection, and you can really find anything that interests you. The world of technology today is so incredibly advanced, "anyone with a microphone and access to the web can create a podcast" (Lamb and Johnson 3). This astonishes me, in the sense that really anyone can create their own technological world, if you will. Look at youtube phenomenon's, where people just post videos of themselves and they actually get so popular, that those people become famous. Anyone can do anything in this day and age; you just need the motivation.
Podcasts seem like a news source of the future. They're free, easy to work with, and accessible anywhere with an internet connection. Now when the question arrises about if Fort Lewis needs one, I say, why not? We're already coming to a point where we as students use e-mails rather than letters, and blogs rather than papers. The educational world is vastly changing, because we as humans are vastly changing; we tend to learn the best with the newest advancements in education. Therefore, I agree that podcasts could really benefit the students. We all know that students are prone to being on the internet many hours a day. Why not then make the education available online where it'll be looked at, rather than a newspaper source downtown that kids would never take the time to go get? The structure of a podcast is similar to a radio show because some podcasts are radio shows. They have people to interview and topics to discuss. it's virtually the same thing, only a podcast is downloaded and not put on through the radio, but the computer instead.
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