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Contents 1 Just the facts... 2 Backronym? 3 Too Broad a Definition of Podcast 4 Definition again 5 Plagiarism

[edit] Just the facts...

"Don’t confuse amateur production quality for lack of substance; the medium exists because of the hard work, often unpaid and seldom rewarded, of thousands of podcasting enthusiasts who are simply seeking a way to be heard."

Is it me or is that all bias opinion and no fact? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.190.179.149 (talk) 21:26, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Backronym?

A backronym did not just develop out of nowhere as this article would have you believe. Creative is the only company that uses this backronym, it was developed by Creative in a bit of awkwardy contrived revisionism. It is kind of insulting that this gets into the article without mentioning that nobody on the planet considers the "pod" in podcasting to be an acronym except for a couple hack marketing people at Creative. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.146.70.89 (talk) 02:56, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Too Broad a Definition of Podcast

Given the definition of podcast listed here, my Internet Radio Show from 1999 - 2004, 2009 (streamable or downloadable in mp3 or real media) was a podcast in 2000 or 2001 when we introduced "RFC On Your Site" a method to allow users to stream or download from other sites. While I'd love to take credit for inventing podcasting, I think this may be a little broad. http://www.tfradio.net http://web.archive.org/web/20010408055028/www.tfradio.net/yoursite2.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.177.77.187 (talk) 15:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Definition again

A podcast is usually a spoken word programme (often a radio programme). It is often but not necessarily part of a series, as the intro currently says. Nor is it necessarily syndicated - e.g. the BBC have been offering what they call podcasts for several years, via download from their site and not (AFAIK) syndicated. Actually I think the intro is so wrong, and there seems to be so little discussion on this page, that I'll just change it and see what people think. Ben Finn (talk) 13:47, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Agreed, most podcast sources are neither syndicated nor require "special software" to acquire the podcast. Many of them are not episodic. The most common method of delivery is actually simple downloading, also common is using an RSS feed to notify people of availability, but it is not required. dunerat (talk) 17:56, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

There have been many podcasts that were primarily music rather than non-spoken ("podcast safe music" is a term which applies mainly to that genre of podcast shows, where entire songs are played through; IndieFeed is a good example). The word "syndication" is referring to Web syndication (as in "Really Simple _Syndication_"), not as in commercial "syndicated" distribution like for television shows, as the BBC would use the term. And according to Dave_Winer#Podcasting and various other references from Wikipedia to other places, a podcast show _is_ episodic. An analogy: TV show/episode is to TV Series as Podcast episode/show is to Podcast. Otherwise, saying "podcast episode" (2,410,000 Google results) wouldn't make sense. RobSimpson (talk) 20:20, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

In the introduction, a brave discussion of definitions concludes by saying that researchers are proposing a four-part definition of a podcast. The statement is unfootnoted, however. What's more, it originally said "three-part", but was changed this month to four, with another part added---again unreferenced.

Without a reference, we don't have any reason to believe that this definition is truly what any authorities or researchers have ever written. Kkken (talk) 22:37, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism

Not long ago, a good amount of material was copied verbatim from [1]. I reverted the article to the revision before that edit. —Frungi (talk) 02:22, 1 November 2009 (UTC)