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What's In a Name? When It Comes to Podcasting, Perhaps EverythingI can provide an explanation to Dave Winer's rumination on why Chris Lydon's interviews were not podcasts in August 2003 (though they are now). It's simple: podcasts didn't exist then, since nobody had applied the term "podcast" to them yet. You think I'm being facetious? Sometimes it takes nothing more than a cute and catchy name to jumpstart a technology or innovation that hasn't yet captured the public's attention. Though the method of delivery is a key ingredient to making a podcast - and I mean key ingredient - it wasn't until somebody coined the phrase "podcast" that these digital audio recordings began to really proliferate. Most current arguments over its origins focus on the technologies that enable podcasting, yet the power of its catchy name is often overlooked or forgotten. Dave is certainly aware of the power of cute names and cartoony logos, seeming to have a fondness for a cute alien one named Blugg. Yet it must seem frustrating for him to have developed and pushed a technology for years, only to find it not taking off until something ridiculously simple as a proper name is applied to it. That's not all it took, of course, but it certainly helped make the technology accessible to the imaginations of those outside of the realm of RSS awareness.
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