This is Simply Smarter Broadcasting

Don't feel bad Ponzi. I thought “Podcasting” had to do with a remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”.

My vote is for SmartCasting… podCasting is too exclusive which makes me automatically hate it.

or Feedcasting… there are a thousand and one better names than Podcasting

I'd really like to hear a more convincing arguement as to why “podcasting” is so important. As was already mentioned, it's a stupid name that both comes off as elitist and unclear. How about making the case that it's like being able to vcr a show for later, except someone has already saved it for you?
I watch a number of RSS feeds (and it's just an “ok” medium chris, not fantastic). I can't say that I've seen a podcast mention yet that I would download. I'd be more interested in getting something like this from NPR, etc… Most of the people currently doing this are really not contributing anything beyond the insignificant. It's mostly a feeling that they are some how cutting edge.

PODCasting is about the time-shifting of content and the ability to synchronize that content with a portable device.
Is it new? No… It's a concept that's been around for a while but it now has a name and is just beginning to gain recognition. Apple's Newton was one of the first PDAs but it took other iterations of the device to gain mass recognition. PODCasting is no different.
Is it important? Yes… It is another method for the public to get their content in more efficient, convenient manner. Just like the Web, MP3, RSS, etc…, it will have its place. It is just in its infancy, give it time.
Will it kill broadcasting? No… Legacy media is here to stay for a long time; however, people will continue to transition to the technologies that deliver media content in the manner they prefer.
What about the name, shouldn't they change it? I believe over time the term PODCasting will be replaced with a more generic term that aptly describes what the technology does.
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Chris – enjoyed the 'podcast'. The name really doesn't matter at this point. The spread of applications that support and enhance 'casting is of greater importance.
One of your phone callers mentioned bandwidth as an issue. Why can't this all be tied into bittorrents? The most popular items should end up being the easiest to get. Torrents could do that.

Very cool. Of course, I learned the most from Ponzi. :-). Really, she hits it on the head. It's better radio. That's what RSS does. It makes content better. But podcasting is just one piece of the greater content puzzle. Anyone can create content these days in any different ways. Podcasting is a metaphor for our changing culture and how we consume media. But what I really want is a robot that will give me the news. The robot is my aggregator. “Robot, what news do you have for me today about Mt. Saint Helens?” “Well, sir, did you see that the latest plume over the mountain looks just like Chris Pirillo?”
Perhaps we can call it PodRobot?
I say Ponzi should have a show, too, interviewing women about all this geek stuff. It would be enlightening. Alex.

At this point in time, pretty much everyone knows what an iPod is. So, there is significant Mindshare out there for any “pod” thing.
The numbers vary, but I've heard iPod has from 80% (which I don't quite believe), down to 58% (which seems fairly likely) of the market for mp3 players.
While I don't particularly care what they call it as long as content keeps coming, calling it something else makes little sense (at least at this point.)
Podcasting is aiming for the biggest marketshare. iPod.
Makes sense to me.
(This coming from a Win user who has had a number of mp3 players (non-Apple) & now uses an iPod exclusively, because they simply “got it right” (which isn't to say there isn't room for improvement.)
my 2 pence
Rich

With all the fancy terms like “time shifting” and all that, all this latest “must have/must do” bandwagon does is distribute recordings of 'radio'. So what ?

I've never heard of it until you brought it up…
Hey did that guy calle Ponzi, “Fonzi” ? lol

this is the first of heard of podcasting. I work for a marketing agency mainly working for ministries. All ministries have a desire to get their messages out but many of them are trapped in an old 60s and 70's paradigm of televising their church service. Podcasting is definitely enlarging my picture of new possibilities. my blog

Syndicasting!
It's so appropriate it blows my mind! Syndicasting (since the premise behind the terribly named podcasting is RSS/XML/Atom syndication) and you can convolute syndicate into so many forms of syndicast
syndicast
syndicasting
syndicastion
syndicasted
That's what I'm calling them from now on.

I think Ipodder is cool. I just downloaded and listen to Leo LaPorte. I have an idea for a Podcast that I want to try. It should be cool.

Just thought you should know there is someone passed out there on your webcam. Might want to check on them!!
;-)

I loved yours first podcasting. Hope you continue podcasting more often.

Lets just turn POD into an acronym, then it wont sound so apple related…
Phonic On Demand perhaps?
-Daniel Newman
blog@dannynewman.com

FeedPlay?
NightFeed?
WakeAndPlay?
Thinking ahead, there's no reason this can't apply to videos. Just because the ipod can't play them (at least in the 3rd generation) doesn't mean another personal gadget won't. Some bittorrent search engines already sport RSS of new torrents, or new torrents by category. The RSS enclosure would be the torrent file.
Things missing for me…
Navigation. I want the ability to scan through long posts. When I get a feed from NPR, I can see all the segment titles. I don't need to read all of Morning Edition because of the narrative and metadata. I can browse and surf, pick and choose. I want navigation tools that let me skip to the next segment or the next commercial, nav by content structure instead of time.
Metadata. As long as there's spoken word sitting on my desktop, any way I can get closed captioning via WinXP text-to-speech? In the background?
A variation on the Orange RSS button, so I know a feed includes podcast-ready enclosures.

Isn't podcasting just another example of the “best” product becoming the defacto name for the group. i.e. I often refer to the hoover, but what I really mean is Dyson Vacuum Cleaner. Although I'm a TIVO owner, a number of friends with lesser PVR's refer to TIVOing TV programmes.

It strikes me that if you're trying to push the idea just in the tech space, the name matters much less. Did such a debate occur over naming RSS? Seems to me a much better name could have been found, but the technology was more important than that.

In the consumer space iPod is the noun of choice for refering to portable electronic music players – and they have the market share to legitimise this. Therefore using the pod moniker makes the technology reconizable to the guy or girl on the street.

Perhaps this whole issue is just another breakout of the “Not Invented Here” syndrome!?
Ian.

Anybody else out there miss the 'old' Lockergnome, which seemed more personal and 'attended-to'? I can't help but think Chris has lost tons of past and potential subscribers becase LG has evolved into a site that frankly looks like tons of other technews sites. Just lots of little blips on this and that, too overextended in many directions, and no real defining personality pulling it all together The original 'extended letter' style was far more enjoyable to peruse I think. It had way more personality. The 'slickification' of LG also wiped out a lot of the personality of the original. It's funny, because Chris' blog is a lot like the original LG, now. I'm for 'progress' but sometimes progress isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Anybody else?

How about PARcasting, for Personal Audio Receiver/Recorder. If the Tivo was a PVR, iPodder is a PAR.

Kind of a double edged issue. Prior to this the term was known as “broadcatching” which never really caught on. The emergence of the iPod as a culteral icon has really given steam to this movement, although you are absolutely correct that it is platform and player agnostic. If it is currently riding on the coattails of the most popluar media player (82% market share!!) and creates a loyal base (remeber Newtons? A lot of people got used to the concept of palm pilot), no matter how this thing shakes out there will be plenty of wide understanding and acceptance. Who knew what a Tivo was a few years ago? Now people who don't even understand Tivos are getting them packaged with their cable service, THEN they get it. A lot of people's bets are on mobile phones being the next step. And in that model there the constituency already understands the concept of subscribed services. So I would liken this more to a branding “bump” than a “hump,” and in the end, even if users don't understand it, when its already integrated into their device, why does that particularly matter? Podcasting certainly isn't dying on the vine, the buzz has just begun… I have started an independent music site called IndieFeed where we serve single-serving podcasts of non RIAA acts, and we are getting a whole lot of interest, I don't think branding will be a killer… Chris

Call it Ed Radio – which was actually developed last year 9without the Apple branding).
http://www.downes.ca/ed_radio.htm