24 Feb 2005 | huphtur said...

hype term for mp3 file without music

24 Feb 2005 | seth said...

A fad that I don't care to understand. :)

24 Feb 2005 | Dave McClure said...

Internet radio broadcasting for the common man via iPods + MP3.

25 Feb 2005 | Adam Michela said...

Interesting.

25 Feb 2005 | Noel Jackson said...

Audio syndication for your iPod.

25 Feb 2005 | Russ Smith said...

Ham radio for the internet.

25 Feb 2005 | Feaverish said...

like a poetry reading, but, you know, without the poetry

25 Feb 2005 | beto said...

A new, fancy term for old stuff - DIY broadcasting.

25 Feb 2005 | rabble said...

Podcasting is to radio what tivo is to tv and rss is to websites.

Oops, i went over 10 words, but they are short words.

25 Feb 2005 | indi said...

Podload a voxblog now, listen when convenient.

Do I get extra credit for making up two words? :-)

25 Feb 2005 | deaf and dumb? said...

becomingly browsed boring blowharrds bellowing screetching sonic syndications @ shallow simpletons

25 Feb 2005 | Andreas Haugstrup said...

On-demand Radio (look, only two words).

25 Feb 2005 | Henri Bergius said...

(Piggybacking Andreas Haugstrup)

On-demand radio distributed over the net (and into mobile devices).

25 Feb 2005 | Mark said...

Digital Audio News-stand

25 Feb 2005 | Arnaud said...

Radio recorded from the internet for the very cool people.

25 Feb 2005 | oier said...

audio blog

25 Feb 2005 | Ross M Karchner said...

Broadcasting for the rest of us.

25 Feb 2005 | Nicole Simon said...

Smart audio. For my amusement, at my convenience.

25 Feb 2005 | Steve said...

Shit you download to your iPods,

25 Feb 2005 | Steve said...

...when you can't find anymore interesting mp3s to steal.

25 Feb 2005 | Chad said...

Audible websites to-go.

25 Feb 2005 | George Hotelling said...

Niche public access radio available anytime anywhere.

25 Feb 2005 | Arne Gleason said...

Broken VCR tuned to public access TV (more channels soon).

25 Feb 2005 | patrick h. lauke said...

was around before, but now rebranded with hype name.

25 Feb 2005 | Adam Michela said...

Heh. People just love to hate memes (trends... whatever). I'm guilty of it from time to time as well...

Good thing Odeo doesn't seem to have married the term itself... just the function.

Then again... even if they did... people would still love it. It's just that the haters are always the squeakiest wheel.

25 Feb 2005 | Stephen McKenna said...

RSS for audio.

25 Feb 2005 | Jamie said...

Distributing an audio file to a computer or other device.

25 Feb 2005 | sixtoe said...

MP3 mix tapes from thousands of people you've never met.

25 Feb 2005 | Kevin Gerich said...

roughage for your mobile audio diet

25 Feb 2005 | chris said...

Thanks for this. Confused about the new term when it seems to be an mp3 recorded broadcast.

25 Feb 2005 | David Ely said...

Download radio broadcasts and listen to them later.

25 Feb 2005 | Bill Brown said...

Audio blogging without the speed or random access of reading.

Pull broadcasting without the professional voices.

Like talk radio, with all that that implies, without commercials.

Choice nuggets of audio punctuated by 'umms' and 'ahhs'.

25 Feb 2005 | Dan said...

A fancy word for prerecorded radio shows on the Internet.

25 Feb 2005 | Paul Roub said...

Radio which can
Include seven dirty words
Dropped into iTunes

25 Feb 2005 | Eric Nentrup said...

the lovechild of technology and the fifth ammendment.

25 Feb 2005 | Eric Nentrup said...

the lovechild of technology and the fifth ammendment.

25 Feb 2005 | Keith said...

Portable. Audio. Blog. People. Connections. Open. Communication. Music. Thought. Fun.

25 Feb 2005 | Martin said...

Overrated bandwidth-gobbling non-event that perpetuates the word 'pod'.

25 Feb 2005 | Tim said...

This is radio clash everybody hold on tight

25 Feb 2005 | Manton Reece said...

Audio that automatically syncs to your portable device via subscription.

The important part about podcasting is the "pod". This is new. Just making an MP3 available for download is not a podcast. You need a way to subscribe to it (RSS enclosures) and have it download and sync for you (NetNewsWire + iTunes, for example).

25 Feb 2005 | Brian Enigma said...

Internet = countless radio stations; iPod = audio VCR

25 Feb 2005 | Don Schenck said...

I have no idea.

25 Feb 2005 | Jesper said...

TiVo for Ham radio.

25 Feb 2005 | Leland Johnson said...

Rants, on demand, in stereo (sometimes). iPod and RSS compatible.

25 Feb 2005 | Eric said...

This is a good exercise. For the record, I tried to listen to a show, but found it to be incredibly boring. Just like blogs and web pages in general, a few gems and lots of crap. I haven't found a gem yet, but I'm not looking that hard.

Here's by entry, though (I cheat a little with some improper words):

Audio shows by Internet-folk synced to iPod; kind'a like radio.

25 Feb 2005 | indi said...

Paul: Nice haiku :-)

25 Feb 2005 | Will Hayworth said...

noun
Internet audio broadcasting; often coupled with a blog.

25 Feb 2005 | Garrick Van Buren said...

1. Subscription
2. Radio
2. By
3. and
4. For
5. Everyone

25 Feb 2005 | sloan said...

mostly noise

25 Feb 2005 | ffub said...

Podcasting is the hypesatisfactic marketage for distribulation of auditory snips.

25 Feb 2005 | Adam Michela said...

Podcasting is the hypesatisfactic marketage for distribulation of auditory snips.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

25 Feb 2005 | max said...

No radios are harmed during the creation and distribution of a podcast, so it isn't real suitable word for describing one. Broadcasting seems to imply that more than 5 people are being reached, so it's out.

Hype for personal audio show?

or with a little less cynacism,

personal audio show syndication. pass.

25 Feb 2005 | Tones said...

amateur internet radio

25 Feb 2005 | Dave Hoffer said...

Audi-blogging.

25 Feb 2005 | Dave said...

I find it ironic that the same media many of us are trying desperately to avoid becoming is the very same media that is defining us to the rest of the world and perhaps even ourselves. In my opinion they're doing a very poor job of it. But we're not complaining. "Hush you fool - we're getting ink!" If that's not a mindfuck and an indication that all is not well here in Eden, I don't know what is.

http://www.wholewheatradio.org/jbb/weblog.php?id=P388

26 Feb 2005 | Ry Rivard said...

Words for the iPod.

26 Feb 2005 | pb said...

The tiniest niche.

26 Feb 2005 | alan said...

Posted audio files automatically downloaded to digital music player.

26 Feb 2005 | Dennis Schwartz said...

"Listen what you like when you want, not when they do." oooops, 11. Sorry!

26 Feb 2005 | Adam Codega said...

I supposed weblogs looked pretty silly when they first started. I find them pretty similar too. It's not an amazing display of new technology, it's the idea that's important. It will of course grow and change. Good "casts" will gain listeners while people making the bad casts will get bored and stop publishing.

26 Feb 2005 | JH said...

1. Like radio, in the way DVDs are like theatre.

2. Radio for everyone (who can afford a $400 player)

3. Like downloading a teenage Livejournal, with 1000x the bandwidth

Meh. Call it whatever you like, but ffs don't insult us by calling it radio. If it ain't live, it's someone's mix tape... unless it's the kind of radio which requires production (like drama) - which no podcasts are so far. Even Adam Curry's effort - from a so-called professional - sounds like a tape recording of a show which got cancelled from the 3am slot on an unfunded college radio station.

28 Feb 2005 | Tom Coates said...

Subscribe to shows, have them appear on your iPod automatically.

01 Mar 2005 | Megan Holbrook said...

Has anyone here seen KCRW.com's recent implementation of podcasting, or is a KCRW fan? I'd be interested to find out if anyone has suggestions for what they'd like to see work better in that area. We're going to be redesigning their site in the next few months, and are open to suggestions. One idea is to let people create wishlists for files they'd like to download, so they can browse the site without interruptions, then download all the files at once. Other thoughts?

01 Mar 2005 | noah said...

an over-hyped term for automatically downloading audio files

02 Mar 2005 | Tintin said...

Radio for the people! No more soft rock for me.

02 Mar 2005 | jamie said...

syndicated audio

or, more simply:

syndicated media

(for those that don't feel like coming up with a new term (i.e., vodcasting) for every type of media that is syndicated)

02 Mar 2005 | squirmel said...

ZenCasting, RioCasting, or iRiverCasting for the iPod. Think: MP3s.

06 Mar 2005 | Roy Kamen said...

World's First Workout Podcasts - The perfect use of podcasting

06 Mar 2005 | Roy Kamen said...

World's First Workout Podcasts - A perfect use of podcasting

07 Mar 2005 | rob h said...

Poor Man's Internet Radio

08 Mar 2005 | brian maggi said...

ear mail