Why are they called podcasts and not netcasts?

[Edil]

Hi!

Please be patient with me I'm not only new to the new digital audio player technology but to the podcast concept as well.

I ask about the name because the podcast name is deceiving. I thought that this was only an ipod thing and that I was not going to be able to use this with my player for my surprise and my enjoyment I can!!!

One more question I recently learn that there are netcasts that includes pictures but the device that is always mention is the ipod photo. Does that mean that only the ipod photo is compatible with those netcasts with pictures? I was really considering to buy a picture capable DAP but I was thinking on the Archos G400 or the Iriver H340 not the ipod photo. Can I use those as well?

Regards,

Edil

[Inferno]

I'm with you on this one and further more (**** i'm gonna get a lot of crap for this) I don't have an ipod! I don't want a fancy walkman! they will be a hundred buck next year so i'll buy one then!

not only that check this (also gonna regret this statement) I don't have a mac either! nor do i want one.....they are too pretty, cute. and the fact that you can buy stuff at ifea to match your computer is crossing the line.

sorry.......um............so yeah why do they call it podcasts.........i have a podcast
http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_detail.php?pod_id=1922

and no ipod.....or mac...so is it still a pod cast?

[PupuStudios]

As a disclaimer: I don't want to piss off any hardcore Mac people.

That being said, I agree that the name 'podcast' is inaccurate. It unnecessarily advertises on the behalf of Apple. If podcasts become really huge, people will automatically associate it's success with Macintosh. Isn't that one of the main ideas behind 'podcasting'? To bring down the behemothic companies (more specifically in mainstream broadcasting)? But with a name that implies it's a byproduct of Apple, you're just feeding a the megacorp. Individuality over monolithic companies is what it's all about., in my mind. Maybe I'm wrong...

[Dailysonic_Adam]

I've heard that the POD in podcast stand for "portable, on-demand." So when you think about it that way, it makes sense.

-Adam

[Craig]

Supposedly it's podcasting because it sort of rhymes with "broadcasting" and because initially it was creating by people who wanted content for their iPods. Whatever the reason, it's unlikely podcasting would have become as popular as it has if it had been named something else because it has been able to ride on the marketing coattails and success of the iPod due to its name. So love it or hate it, you're here now because of it.

Craig

[Inferno]

well....its a bit late to change it I think.

[Craig]

And while we're on the subject, why are they called "hamburgers" and not "beefburgers"? Inquiring minds want to know.

Craig

[PupuStudios]

The answer is really quite simple: because Hamburg, Germany made the first hamburgers.

However, the history of the hamburger is actually more complicated. Who actually invented the first hamburger remains a mystery.

Some say it was a group of nomadic people called the Tartars who tenderized their beef by placing it under a horse's saddle--flattening it into a patty. Others believe it was the German immigrants who traveled to the United States during the 19th century bringing with them their favorite meal called Hamburg Style Beef-- a raw chopped, piece of beef. Some argue Americans placed the first cooked beef patty on a roll at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1921.

Although beef is the most popular meat used in hamburgers, other meats such as pork and turkey have been used.

Ever since Bob's Big Boy introduced the first double patty burger, new varieties of burgers have been created. Today people enjoy veggie burgers, turkey burgers, and quarter-pound burgers with many different toppings including lettuce, mushrooms, cheese, onions, tomatoes, ketchup, mustard, and pickles.

Hamburgers remain one of the most favorite foods among Americans today.

Ranking #1 among all restaurants with 26,000 stores in 119 countries, McDonald's serves billions of hamburgers worldwide.

[cc_chapman]

well....its a bit late to change it I think.

Quite right!

[Edil]

Ha! hamburguers, you are so funny :?

ok I just want to bring the point becasue as an ingnorant newbie, when I first heard about the so call "podcast" I though that those will only work with iPods. Now I know better and hooked with the "podcasts".

By the way, to answer my own question it seems that only the iPod photo is compatible with those podcast with pictures so now I'm in a dilema becasue I don't want the iPod photo.

[thefly]

I've always thought of this medium as "narrowcasting" or "peercasting"

I mean, this is the antithesis of BROADcasting, which is throwing your content out as far flung as possible, in hopes that someone will pick it up. It's trying to expose yourself to the greatest number of faceless people.

Whereas what we're doing is selecting our audience just as much as they select us. We can focus our message and content on people like us. Which is why I like peercasting the best.

Not to mention there's a closer tie between listeners and producers. There is a greater opportunity for thought-exchange and interaction. It's definitely a peer to peer sort of model.

in fact, I think I'll stop using the term Podcasting, as least when referring to my stuff.