Podcasts are emerging as popular fora for discussing science. Here, we describe how podcasts can benefit scientific communities by disseminating career-specific information that is often unwritten and hidden to those outside academic social knowledge networks. We also provide practical advice on scientists launch their own podcasts.

Podcasting continues to emerge as a popular and flexible medium for content delivery with a projected subscriber base of nearly 50 million by the year 2010 (Gilbert 2005). As instructors have begun to use podcasts more frequently to enhance online courses or supplement traditional classroom courses, institutions have begun to adopt campus-wide initiatives to support such practices. The Duke Dig...

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The teacher as researcher analyzed and documented his own professional development during the implementation of a program aimed at improving students’ listening abilities via exposing them to podcasts and familiarizing them with metacognitive strategies. Seventeen senior high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners participated in this study, with a second teacher acting as a facili...

Title: Pharmacology podcasts (audio lecture recordings): a qualitative study of non-medical prescribing students' use, perceptions and impact on learning

RFIDs, cell phones, and sensor nodes produce streams of sensor data that help computers monitor, react to, and affect the changing status of the physical world. Our goal in this paper is to allow these data streams to be first-class citizens on the World Wide Web. We present a new Web primitive called stream feeds that extend traditional XML feeds such as blogs and Podcasts to accommodate the l...