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Wed, 12 Apr 2006
[11:45] Padcast vs Podcast
I've developed quite a dislike to the word "podcast", mostly because of the Apple connotations that it invokes and thus the implicit advertising they receive everytime someone uses it. I HATE advertising for things and I always strip labels from bottles, pens, hats and other miscellany.
I don't object to Apple selling over-priced and unusable gizmos (what the hell was whoever came up with iTunes THINKING). Nor do I object to them, or anyone else, using the word 'podcast'. What I object to is every gimboid in the universe referring to any internet-sourced piece of media as a podcast. A podcast is a piece of media made specifically to be played on an iPod, OK?
I've been convolutedly referring to "internet-sourced media" as Mediacasts but, lets face it, that word sucks quite a lot. On the weekend the word 'padcast' occured to me whilst observing folks on the Tube and their Personal/Portable Audio Devices. As those words crossed my lips I wondered why I'd never thought of them before (yeah, I'm slow). I'm certainly not the first but when I remembered to look it up today there were only 422 hits from Google and even less from the IceRocket Blog Search. What's worse, the Wikipedia podcast entry is attempting to subsume the padcast entry!
Help prevent rampant commercialism and the evil trend of subliminal advertising. I urge you to join the incredibly catchily named 's/podcast/padcast/g' campaign today by adding this incredibly crappy button I just smushed together to your website immediately:
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