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Technically a podcast is audio only and a video is a vodcast or vidcast, but nobody seems to know the second term; most everyone uses podcast for both. The term podcast, according to Wikipedia, is a portmanteau of the words "iPod" and "broadcast."
The Minnesota Historical Society Collections Department has a podcast and blog webpage called Collections Up Close. I tried to find it in the podcast directories.
I didn't have any luck on Podcasting News, Podcast.com, Podcast.net, Yahoo, or the Education Podcast Network. They all rely on the podcast creators to add their own podcasts and apparently the Collections folks haven't done that. Although I didn't find the Collections Up Close podcasts, I did find a series of MHS podcasts on the restoration of the Minnesota Capitol while searching on Yahoo.
I struck paydirt with Podcast Alley, however. The odd thing was, when I searched "Minnesota Historical Society," the Collections Up Close podcasts were the second thing listed; a Kansas Historical Society podcast was the first!
Am I inspired to do some podcasting myself? Perhaps. The Reference Department's Library 2.0 Committee has talked about it, but we've got so many other ideas on our plate that our somewhat shy librarians probably will leave the podcasts until last!
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You're right about Collections folks apparently not adding the Up Close podcasts to online directories. Joe H and I have been busy adding them where we can such as museumpodcasts.com, podcastalley, and some others I don't recall at the moment. I did add the Up Close podcast to the Education Network. I'll need to figure out why it isn't there.
-- R.S.
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