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Old 07-20-2005, 07:17 PM
Jason Dunn
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Originally Posted by dean_shan
However it really urks me when you say 'Thoughtscast' instead of 'podcast'. But that's really not a big problem in the grand scheme of things.
The term podcast "urks" me (it's "irks" BTW) because this has nothing to do with iPods and ultimately it's just a word made up by an MTV Apple fanboy. Podcasts are just audio recordings in an RSS enclosure, and audio recordings have been around the 'Net for a long time. Ultimately the important part of the term is "cast" not "pod". You'll find over the next 12 months the term podcast will morph into other things - Microsoft is calling them "BlogCasts", and other terms will pop up as well.

I personally LOVE the term ThoughtCast that Ed came up with because it's a casting (throwing) of opinion out into the vast ether that is the 'Net...how poetic! :mrgreen:
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