Talk:Uses of podcasting

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Rewriting Lead and Education

currently rewriting the beginning section and the education and academia section Starchild698 12:11, 17 July 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starchild698 (talk • contribs)

Capitalization

So what's the accepted spelling? Is "Podcast" capitalized, or not? This page is inconsistent. Tahrlis (talk) 18:43, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

including, but not limited to

"Including, but not limited to" is lawyer-speak and is unnecessary since "including" implies additional items already. --Unimath (talk) 16:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Edit Summary

Changes were made to the introduction. A new section Podcasting in K-12 Education was added and relevant subsections were added and referenced including producing and consuming podcasts for educators and learners.Starchild698 17:03, 18 July 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starchild698 (talk • contribs)

Audio Tour VS Podcast

Under "Public Services" there were three entries for "Audio Tours" for academic institutions (i.e. universities, colleges, etc.), cultural or historic cities, and museums. I removed the first one because I couldn't find any news coverage and I'm commenting here in case someone wants to try again and find one that I missed. I don't think an "Audio Tour" necessarily counts as a podcast because "Audio Tours" are normally not episodic or necessarily even distributed in the same ways--not to mention that any source that doesn't call it a podcast can't really be used. TipsyElephant (talk) 18:28, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

I recently got a newspapers.com account and found some sources for these uses of podcating that I've listed here on the talk page and will add to the article over time. TipsyElephant (talk) 23:09, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

List or Prose

Is this article supposed to be a bunch of lists or is it supposed to be prose? I think the list approach is quite ridiculous looking right now especially with how badly organized the article is/was, but I can see the value in keeping it a list. However, prose seems more professional and thorough. TipsyElephant (talk) 18:45, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

I've decided to go ahead and convert everything to prose because the list format is so difficult to maintain. TipsyElephant (talk) 23:10, 11 September 2021 (UTC)

"may contain indiscriminate, excessive, or irrelevant examples"

I've done some major trimming and I'm still unclear on what the purpose of this article is. The majority of the entries are examples of genres, but when someone talks about horror movies or rock music they don't call it a "use of movies" or "use of music". I'm unsure what to do with all the content, especially considering how little sourcing there is. The genres could be merged into Podcast or split into a seperate article. I'm not sure the uses of podcasts deserves a seperate article though. Any thoughts would be appreciated. TipsyElephant (talk) 23:33, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

I decided to remove the genre sections because I believe they were unrelated to the topic of this article and should be covered in a separate article. I didn't feel that the current sourcing or quality of the prose was worth opening a merge discussion and will probably pursue a separate article at some point without using any of the content that was here in this article. The genre sections also had unnecessary name dropping of arbitrary podcasts that seemed to provide undue weight to the favorite podcasts of whoever added them. TipsyElephant (talk) 23:13, 11 September 2021 (UTC)