Heh. You know how Slashdot are supposed to be this bunch of cutting edge techies? Well today they just discovered the term "podcast".
In response to a thread which was pointing out that the producers of Battlestar Galactica are relelasing audio commentaries of each episode a week before they go to air (great idea by the way!), "AmigaAvenger" posted this reponse:
podcast... (Score:2, Insightful)
by AmigaAvenger (210519) on Sunday March 06, @12:28PM (#11859136)
(Last Journal: Friday June 25, @09:26PM) ok, nothing annoys me more then someone renaming a technology, and then everyone jumping on the bandwagon of this new and great thing! it is called a webcast. as in broadcast combined with the web. there is no (i)pod in this stream whatsoever...
Funny stuff, and an interesting coincidence. I was talking with someone at IDG the other day about how Slashdot used to be THE source of big boosts to your site traffic. People are only now starting to realise that Slashdot no longer matters from a referral perspective. That mantle now rests with Google of course.
Posted by: Mark Jones | Monday, March 07, 2005 at 12:14 PM
I think the commenter was less "discovering" than "still rejecting".
"blogcast" makes sense to me, "webcast" less so, but "podcast" is just wrong in my mind because, like AmigaAvenger said, there is no iPod in the process. I subscribe to several shows via Doppler and listen to them on devices not made by Apple.
I have no reason to think that Apple will allow a commercial company specializing in downloadable, subscribable webcasts to dilute their trademark by calling the process "Podcasting".
Not that I really care that much what they are called, I listen to them, not talk about them. When I do talk about them, I call them "shows", just like recurring episodes of entertainment on the other media chanels (TV, radio).
Posted by: sirshannon | Monday, March 07, 2005 at 05:40 PM