Creating RSS feeds: http://www.xul.fr/en-xml-rss.html (from wikipedia)
Not much more complicated than just creating and updating a .xml file
somewhere on the web. Virtually everyone uses a tool, rather than
updating the .xml with new links by hand, since it would just be silly
to edit an RSS feed manually. The "feed" part of the name is
misleading -- the word implies an additional level of complication or
automation that isn't there. http://www.foo.com/bar.xml is just a URL
fetched by a browser the same way that /bar.html is fetched, over the
HTTP protocol -- the difference is that since it is delivering mostly
pure data, with layout information only rarely specified, it can be
quite dull to view the xml items (aka "feed items") in your browser --
much more interesting to view it in something like bloglines or the
google personalized home page.
Since podcasting is just RSS that delivers a link to a binary (audio)
file rather than a link to an HTML page, there's no additional web
knowledge required to become a podcaster. Rather, one needs to learn
the tricks of an entirely different sphere, recorded audio, with which
I am wholly unfamiliar myself.
As always, the wikipedia entries can acquaint one with more
information on RSS or podcasting with relative ease. I myself use
Blogger to automatically generate an RSS feed for blog entries.
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