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Where did the word podcasting come from and what does it really mean?
Home » Blogs » Podcasting and Vodcasting » Where did the word podcasting come from and what does it really mean?Posted by Your Guide on October 12, 2006 4:57 PM
The word podcasting was coined in 2004 and came from the combination of the words iPod and broadcasting. Interestingly enough, possession of an iPod is not necessary to listen to podcasts, as any device with the ability to download files based off of syndication feeds such as RSS and Atom, are capable of supporting podcasts. The New Oxford American Dictionary defined podcasting as, "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player".[
Some use the term podcast to refer to anything with an audio or video feed, while others have come up with new words to describe all the various aspects of podcasts. Some of these terms are:
Podcasters--Anyone (or organization) who offers syndication feeds
Podcatchers--RSS aggregators which have the ability to transfer podcasts to hardware or software of the media player.
Podmercial, coined by John Iaisuilo in 2005
Poditorial, coined by John Hedtke, also in 2005
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