Sat, 15 Nov 2008
'podcasting' considered harmful?
The terms 'podcast' and 'podcasting', to mean 'an RSS feed with associated audio content' and the process of creating the aforementioned respectively, are massively prevalent in the zeitgeist at the moment. However, the terms do refer to Apple products in their names (if somewhat obliquely), that being where the idea really exploded into the public awareness.
The GNU Project publishes a list of words to avoid. I don't think that 'podcast' and 'podcasting' belong on that particular list, as they don't directly affect GNU software (that I am aware of). But should those terms be included there in spirit?
I'm not sure I really care, but it's something that popped into my head just now, people's responses to which I would be interested to hear.
So, what do you think?
Posted: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:27 | | Comments: 1