I was surprised and happy when I read this. It is great to see that Vanderbilt is following the trend with the new and changing media. Mike Schoenfeld, vice chancellor for public affairs says:
The emerging media forms, such as podcasts, RSS feeds and blogs, allow people to access the specific news they are interested in without sorting through all the other information that is generated every day. We want to be sure that anyone interested in news from Vanderbilt can access it in the way that?s most convenient for them, and podcasts are an innovative new tool they can use to do that.
One thing that I noticed though is that, the piece says that a special software ?must be installed? to listen to the podcasts. Although, special software makes it easy to receive podcasts it is not necessary.
According to the Vanderbilt News Podcasts page, the podcasts will actually be Vanderbilt?s radio show That?s Vanderbilt. It is also said that listeners will be able to listen to the speeches given at Vanderbilt as well as the Senior Day Commencement ceremonies.
The podcast feed can be found here.
[...] It seems like universities are picking up on podcasting. I had blogged about Vanderbilt News Podcast here before. Today I read on Digg that Berkeley, MIT and Harvard publish some lectures as podcasts. It is interesting to see how technology changes even how the academic content is delivered and reaching to a much broader audience. Probably the next step will be videocasts of courses but I am not sure how far they can go with that since the video totally takes someone to a class. I remember MIT was streaming some of the courses to the public. [...]
[...] I will be watching this space for a while and see how it evolves. It is great to see signs of user-centric web projects here at Vandy. I had written about the Vanderbilt news podcasts (vucast) before, and now InsideVandy. It just feels good to see how Vanderbilt adapts to the changing trends on the web. Technorati tags: insidevandy, vanderbilt, web 2.0, vtv, student films [...]