The regular podcasts to me was extreamly difficult to embed into the blog that i simply did not do it. I tried to figure it out but it was not happening. As for the podcasts, i do not like them. I am not interested in listening to stories and other topics without video and i find that i get board quickly. I am not a fan of the audio books either. I would much rather read a book or watch a podcast than listen to one. However the two of them are good for on the go. Listening to them in the car or during a run could be interesting and many people do it. However, for me i will stick to the music!

As for the video podcasts. I had a great deal of difficulty embedding them into my blog so i simply tagged the URL into the blog and the user can watch through the link. I listened to a few triathlon video casts on the ITU website. These gave me some tips for when i do my triathlon races. I will be using these in the future. As for you tube, the video bar is on the side of the blog screen. There are multiple videos with Triathlon races which i love to watch. They inspire me to want to train and race harder. I think that you tube is so successful because it has so many videos submitted by users that have an almost unlimited amount of topics. From how to cook anything to videos of weird and funny moments, you tube has it. It is a huge internet device and i think it will be the same for a while but will perhaps get better quality wise. I also watched a few trailers coming out into theaters soon. I watched them in the 720p quality on my laptop and it is amazing. I do think that it may help with advertising the movies to have them in high definition however i do not think that it is the main reason. I think that the high definition videos are better at marketing high definition movies and DVD players to tell you the truth! I am not truly sure though.

http://www.triathletemag.com/Assets/Podcasts/TriathleteMagPodcast_March17_2008.mp3