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You say that as if he admitted it at one time, which he did not, it's just that the web is so desperate to nail him (well, actually MS) for something they take any hearsay and repeat it as fact, so you may be confused..

Someone needs to take the mic away from Brad when he's singing

There's no stopping him, I tell ya!

lol, Episode 6 - AKA The singing episode


ROFL @ the dinosaur noises

PowerUser.tv is all volunteer. Some people watch football in their free times, others participate in podcasts and "noddle around".

Thanks for the correction, soypowered.

I'm going to disregard your ignorance and disdain for something you clearly have no clue about and try to stick with the facts in hope of educating you a bit.

"Podcasting" is a portmanteau word that combines the words "broadcasting" and "iPod." The term can be misleading since neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or any portable music player. A little-used alternate is "blogcasting", although this usually only refers to recordings that are based on, or similar in format to, blogs.

Podcasting is a method of publishing audio broadcasts via the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading of audio onto portable players or personal computers. Apple didn't "steal the Shoutcast spotlight" from anyone. Podcasting is generally aggregated via feeds while Shoutcasting is more about broadcasting a constant audio stream. Streaming and podcasting are completely different and almost worlds apart.

"Podcasting" has become a generalized industry term much like "hacking", "phishing" or "spam." It's not likely to change anytime soon and we at Poweruser.tv are not about to start a grass roots movement to change the name just so you and your friends will tune in.

Let's review...
1. Apple didn't coin the phrase nor did they steal the spotlight from Shoutcast and/or Winamp. The two technologies aren't the same.
2. The study you spoke of was wasn't performed by us. You'd know that if you listened to the podcast.
3. You don't watch PowerUser.tv, you listen to it. Video will most likely be added in October, but hasn't been implemented yet.
4. If "other ppl here feel the same way", then this is for them too.

Have a nice day.

if it is just audio then why the hell is it under a .tv domain, last i knew TV means something visual and please don't point out stupid digital cable and satelite audio channels, that does not count. podcasting right now is just audio which is what shoutcasting is and even if Apple had nothing to do with this trendy name it doesn't make it acceptable, like i said, the community, not just poweruser.tv, needs to come up with a better neutral name just like MS was trying to come up with Web Feed instead of RSS, it just happens to be intuitive. i wasn't specifically saying research done by anything poweruser.tv but the coined phrase "lazy americans" because frankly every country is lazy if we are going to point out one country anywho, i like a good debate so until the next reply, i bid you a good night.

Again, it's obvious you don't know what you're talking about. I really do hate to keep pointing these things out when you could so easily research them yourself.

1. PowerUser.TV is named thusly because as it says at the top of the PowerUser.TV page, "Welcome to PowerUser.TV! We plan to have weekly podcasts available shortly along with a monthly net-based TV show by the end of September. Stay tuned!"
2. Podcasting does often include images and video. "By 2005 some aggregators could play video as well as audio. With increasingly robust personal digital devices, such as Sony's PSP, podcasting is likely to continue to evolve." - Wikipedia. For a good example of such feeds, examine Feedburner's SmartCast technology that allows compatibility with most feed readers.
3. Most people aren't so rabidly anti-Apple that they refuse to enjoy community-produced content based solely on the first half of its monicker but you're entitled to your opinion.
4. This isn't "a good debate." This is me continually exorcising the demons of ignorance. Enjoy.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1271om

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"In what could be construed as its latest attempt to make Podcasting proprietary, Apple this month filed for a trademark on the term "iPodcast."

iPodcast is like iPod or iTunes. They're welcome to trademark it and I would almost expect them to, but again, it's not like they can trademark the general term "podcast."

you live by technicalities such as adding an 'i' to the fruity freaking phrase... and how come you had to decrease the size of my link i wanted others to see it better.