chrysostom wrote:Podcast was coined by Apple though, and a lot of people associate 'pod' with 'iPod'.
Nope. Apple did not invent or name the podcast. Adam Curry (former MTV VJ, living in the UK at the time, I think) invented the podcast and Dannie Gregoire came up with the name:
http://www.ameinfo.com/podcasting/"Origin of podcasting
By 2003, a number of blogs already published audio online, and the RSS file format was widely used for summarizing or syndicating content. Using RSS, former NPR host Christopher Lydon attached audio files to his weblog. Lydon's full-length interviews, which focused on blogging and coverage of the 2004 U.S. presidental campaigns, helped to inspire Adam Curry's iPodder script. Indeed, blogs would become an important factor in the popularization of podcasting.
One of the first uses of the term "podcasting" was in an article in The Guardian [1] (
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/ ... 89,00.html) on February 12, 2004, though it didn't detail the RSS file format or automatic synchronization. In September of that year, Dannie Gregoire used the term to describe the automatic download and synchronization idea that Adam Curry had developed [2] (
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ipodder-dev/message/41). Gregoire had also registered multiple domain names associated with podcasting. That usage was discovered and reported on by Curry and Dave Slusher of the Evil Genius Chronicles website. "
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