Podcasts Become A National Pastime

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This time last year, scarcely anyone had heard the word “podcasting.” Now, it’s almost a mainstream hobby. A survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds more than 22 million adults own iPods or MP3 players, “and 29 percent of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing.” Among those age 18-28 who own such gizmos, nearly half have downloaded podcasts.

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