"Whats a podcast?"

[Randum]

podcast is a misleading term, should be "Internet Radio Shows" or something. and yes general FM radio sucks horribly.

 

[LS20]

oh, podcast, you mean like an mp3

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: LS20
oh, podcast, you mean like an mp3

my thought, too. why do we have to come up with a different word for talk-radio mp3's? Why not just call them "mp3's?"

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: spidey07
I just listen to the radio. Have no need for a podcast, whatever that is.

Exactly
I simply do not understand the "lure" of podcasts at all.

They Might Be Giants' podcast is full of non-album tracks, alternate versions of songs, and amusing skits.

 

[BrownTown]

I know what a podcast Is, but I've surely never listened to one, at least never listened to one called a podcast. TBH the relationship with an IPOD there just completely turns me off to the whole idea even though I know it has nothing to do with IPODs. I personally consider it somewhat a lose of my manhood that I even know what a podcast is and that I actually read blogs and such. I don't think it really is nescecarry to understand these things to be technically savy tough. I remember always hearing the news people talk about "blogging" and "podcasts" and "RSS feeds" and never knew that they meant, but I can assure you I know more about computers than they could ever hope to know. IT took me awhile to learn that they were all just stupid new names for things that had been done for years before.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: LS20
oh, podcast, you mean like an mp3

my thought, too. why do we have to come up with a different word for talk-radio mp3's? Why not just call them "mp3's?"

oh, i have a full rant about the superfluous apple jargon, its on my video podcast.

to view, go to www.rant.com/jargon.wmv

 

[HammerCurl]

Go podcasts! NPR podcasts are sexy.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: yllus
Do you people who have no need for podcasts also have no need for a DVR? In many respects it provides the same wonderful functionality.

Here's the difference: I like TV. I hate talk radio.

Talk radio with download wait times, even-lower-than-normal production values, etc. is even worse than ordinary talk radio. No amount of DVR-like improvements can save that.

 

[TwiceOver]

I know what it is, though I can't say I have ever listened to one.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I'm sure some numbnuts journalist overly enamored with the iPod coined the term.

The only time I use the term is when I'm explaining the meaning of "podcast" to someone else.

iDetest all the iShit these days too ... like CNN's iReporters

 

[Gothgar]

I hate the word podcast, makes me want to stab people.

 

[nakedfrog]

The word podcast is supposed to be a play on "broadcast" AFAIK
I also do not like the "pod" connotation, I've had a few people ask me if you have to have an ipod to listen to a podcast
I'm sure Apple doesn't mind that one bit.

 

[DieHardware]

Come on...A podcast is that scene in the Alien movie when she tries to escape.

 

[Turin39789]

its an overused marketing term for an mp3 rant you download