I always thought a podcast was an mp3 (or other audio file) that was delivered by subscribing to an RSS feed that told your podcatcher application when there wa

I always thought a podcast was an mp3 (or other audio file) that was delivered by subscribing to an RSS feed that told your podcatcher application when there was a new file available. In the early days of podcasting I was listening to live streaming audio in the car and on headphones via my old Palm and PocketPC phones. I'd even run a Shoutcast station for a few years before that (but it was less portable before I had a cellular device that could run streaming audio apps). Anyway, I was mostly just commenting on the shift in terminology as "podcast" has become ubiquitous. I still think of a podcast as a syndicated feed, initially (as you said) used as a way around the limitations of iPods and such. Live streaming audio was already a thing and had only gotten more popular. I still wouldn't call a live radio-style stream a "podcast" though.