□ Explore MySpace at http://www.myspace.com and YouTube at http://www.youtube.com to get a sense of what Web 2.0 incorporate.
□ Download and set up an aggregator. You can get one for free at Free Reader (http://www.feedreader.com/). You can also opt to set up a customized home page at Google (http://www.google.com) or Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com).
□ Choose your niche, if you have not already done so. There are entire courses written on choosing a profitable niche if you are having trouble in this area.
□ View other people’s video blogs, and subscribe to a few with your aggregator. Get a sense of how video blogs are presented, how long they are, etc. Look specifically for video blogs that fall within your niche, as these will become important to you later on.
□ While you do not have to have a portable MP3 player to listen to podcasts, you should consider purchasing one, so that you can see how they operate. It is rather important to understand this, because you need to know how people will use their MP3 players to listen to your podcasts.
□ Listen to other people’s podcasts, especially within your niche. If you have not yet purchased an MP3 player, you can listen to podcasts on your home computer, with the use of media software such as Windows Media Player or RealPlayer.
□ Learn how to enable RSS on a website or page, using the information above. You need to be able to add the orange RSS button to your page, and know how to create a feed, upload the feed, and link the button to the feed.
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