Podcasting at University of Florida
The University of Florida is doing some innovative things with audio and podcasting.
The UF News Desk has begun including audio files along with press releases in text (University of Florida News). The news site includes information on general campus news (announcements, appointments, awards) as well as stories about research at the University. All the information is in a blog with RSS feeds and the audio files are included in the RSS feeds making it very easy to hear the news using iTunes or other
podcast software Examples:
- Hurricane impact (MP3, 6.3 MB)
The Bureau of Economic and Business Research, part of the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, recently did a survey to measure the impact of the history-making 2004 hurricane season in Florida. Here UF News & Public Affairs associate director Frank Ahern interviews Bureau director Stan Smith about the survey. - Blindness genes (MP3,4.6 MB)
Many older Americans expect gradual vision loss over time. But thousands of young people each year face a more sudden loss of sight. One cause of hereditary blindness in boys and young men called retinoschisis causes the retina to split in half. Now University of Florida experts have cured the disease in mice with the [É]
In addition, the University of Florida Extension office has
a daily radio program on family issues, designed to help families improve their lives (Family Album Radio),
provides these as downloadable audio files, and will be providing a podcast of all their stories in the next month.