From the What Good is Podcasting department. . .
www.scripting.com
http://archive.scripting.com/2005/10/30#thePeopleOfThePod
Dave Winer recently commented on the value of podcasts (and I couldn't agree more). Dave says,
Emphatically, we are not a get-rich-quick scheme for serial entrepreneurs looking to flip their pre-IPO Web 2.0 Ajax web-app bubble-ware for the Long Tail. We are people with hearts, lives, families, aspirations, hope and something to say. That's by far the more interesting story, and it has legs, it's going somewhere, unlike the tail, which is a vestige of times gone by, when you could count on people to be idiotic couch potatoes, ready to be harvested by advertisers with their intrusive and mindless "messages."
Which leads to. . .
The 2005 Word of the Year is....Podcast!
The Oxford University Press, publishers of the New Oxford American Dictionary, has selected podcast as the Word of the Year for 2005.
Erin McKean, editor in chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, said: "Podcast was considered for inclusion last year, but we found that not enough people were using it, or were even familiar with the concept. This year it's a completely different story. The word has finally caught up with the rest of the iPod phenomenon."
"Choosing the word of the year is incredibly difficult," said McKean. "Not just because of the enormous amount of data we look at-everything from blogs to technical journals to suggestions sent to dictionaries@oup.com, but because everyone has such strong opinions about what makes a word Word of the Year material."
Podcast of the day. . .
Mysterious Universe
As somewhat of a UFO and paranormal buff, plus add the ever appealing accent, this one is a winner!
http://eng.soundofhope.org/makeCategory.asp?catID=571&;pnum=1
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