"PodCamp" Comes to Emory

The Associated Press

ATLANTA (AP) -- About 200 people gathered Saturday at Emory University for "PodCamp."

It's a free, two-day conference for people interested in broadcasting video or audio programs over the Internet.

The sessions conclude Sunday.

Podcasts are typically sound files that can be played on personal computers, TiVo Incorporated's digital recorders and music players such as Apple Computer Incorporated's iPod.

Many are regularly scheduled and automatically delivered, and more recently some have incorporated video.

The first PodCamp started in Boston in September, and since then other sessions have been held in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Berlin.

About half of the participants at the Atlanta conference were new and the others have already been broadcasting over the Internet.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project said in November that 12 percent of Internet users have downloaded a podcast, an increase from 7 percent earlier last year.

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