What is a podcast? It's a simple question: but it doesn't, quite, have a simple answer. I'm regularly asked this: so, here's an attempt to work out what a 'podcast' really is.
The origin of the word
We've written a long history of the word podcast. The word wasn't coined until February 2004, and wasn't used by anyone other than the journalist who coined it until September that year.
As the history shows, the first podcast (though not called that) had been published almost a year earlier, on Jul 9, 2003; the first podcast feed, as defined by the technical definition of a podcast, was in Jan 2001.
Perhaps, even, the first thing that was much the same as a podcast, both technically and editorially, was from Robin Williams and Audible back in January 2000 - audio interviews with showbiz friends, recorded in Williams's house, then delivered automatically to a portable audio player.
Either way,...
The origin of the word
We've written a long history of the word podcast. The word wasn't coined until February 2004, and wasn't used by anyone other than the journalist who coined it until September that year.
As the history shows, the first podcast (though not called that) had been published almost a year earlier, on Jul 9, 2003; the first podcast feed, as defined by the technical definition of a podcast, was in Jan 2001.
Perhaps, even, the first thing that was much the same as a podcast, both technically and editorially, was from Robin Williams and Audible back in January 2000 - audio interviews with showbiz friends, recorded in Williams's house, then delivered automatically to a portable audio player.
Either way,...
- 5/1/2023
- Podnews.net
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