Apple Plans to Start Funding Original Podcasts

[DevNull0]

Umm..Yes..You wouldn't have a podcast without the iPod.

Ben Hammersley originally suggested the word "podcast" as a portmanteau of "iPod"

Then you wouldn't have a podcast without the transistor. So clearly, the credit for the podcast goes to Bell Labs.

 

[Peace]

Then you wouldn't have a podcast without the transistor. So clearly, the credit for the podcast goes to Bell Labs.

I don't see any products by Bell Labs called "POD" . could you please link it for me ?

Thanks.

One more time kids..

There would be NO "Podcast" without the iPod.

 

[SteveW928]

One more time kids..
There would be NO "Podcast" without the iPod.

True, it would just be called something else.

 

[Peace]

True, it would just be called something else.

True but here in reality its called a Podcast.

 

[DevNull0]

True but here in reality its called a Podcast.

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

 

[Peace]

What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

But would never have been called "Pod" without Apple making the "iPod"

 

[rocknblogger]

Indeed - Adam Curry and Dave Winer...

As for Apple produced podcasts - I have no interest in more overproduced NPR/ Gimlet, style scripted fluff. "Science" podcasts given by wikipedia readers that didn't even pass highschool physics or political commentary by video game nerds that never read a foreign newspaper. Replete with a distracting underbed of tingly music...

As for supporting podcasts, I donate directly to the shows that I enjoy listening to. Adam Curry did a reasonable exposé recently on why the big podcast network's are unlikely to be sustainable in the long run.

@laz232 i asked once before but can I please get a link to the Adam Curry exposé you referred to?

 

[laz232]

@laz232 i asked once before but can I please get a link to the Adam Curry exposé you referred to?

I honestly tried to look for it but I've not been able to locate which episode it was in (thought it was somewhere between NA# 1060 and 1160).

Try shooting Adam an email or tweet
to see if he has a link. His basic treatise is that you cannot monetize the network....

 

[rocknblogger]

I honestly tried to look for it but I've not been able to locate which episode it was in (thought it was somewhere between NA# 1060 and 1160).

Try shooting Adam an email or tweet
to see if he has a link. His basic treatise is that you cannot monetize the network....

Okay thanks I’ll Give it a try.