Comments on: full circle - the podcast ? http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2007/09/25/full-circle-the-podcast/ The FREE Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:14:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bob http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2007/09/25/full-circle-the-podcast/#comment-963 Bob Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:02:35 +0000 http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2007/09/25/full-circle-the-podcast/#comment-963 <p>Kudos to whichever marketing person coined the name 'Podcast'.<br /> But since the term Podcast references the iPod, which is a proprietary device, why call them 'Podcasts'? Why not just call them 'audiocasts'?</p> <strong>Ronnie</strong> : <em>probably comes from the word 'broadcast' but don't quote me on that... </em>:D Kudos to whichever marketing person coined the name ‘Podcast’.
But since the term Podcast references the iPod, which is a proprietary device, why call them ‘Podcasts’? Why not just call them ‘audiocasts’?

Ronnie : probably comes from the word ‘broadcast’ but don’t quote me on that… :D

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