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The episode is explicitly mentioned in the article. Also, just curious, is there any other kind of podcast besides an internet one?

by speik 11y ago

thedaemon 11y ago
podcast - Episodic content played on an iPod. So yes, you download podcasts and play them on your iPod, originally. A newer term is Netcast. I find it better because it removes the branding. :|
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Oh, so that's why they're called podcasts... Always wondered, but never bothered to check it.
JohnBooty 11y ago
I know you're being facetious and poking fun at the redundancy of the phrase "Internet podcast" but now you have me thinking about how cool an offline podcast might be. Maybe it would be distributed via physical dead drops on USB sticks, or pirate wi-fi networks beamed from disposable drones flown by courageous freedom fighters, or maybe it would be distributed via IP over avian carrier: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 (In all seriousness, my very loose understanding is that in a lot of countries without robust Internet infrastructure, music is often traded directly from phone to phone. It's possible that podcasts or spoken-word messages are traded this way as well...)
- JonnieCache 11y ago
  >my very loose understanding is that in a lot of countries without robust Internet infrastructure, music is often traded directly from phone to phone. You are indeed correct. https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-ce... Africa has had a spoken-word radio radio culture for a long time AFAIK.
- speik 11y ago
  I actually really wasn't being facetious. It was my understanding that podcasts were an Internet centric thing, and was curious whether there were offline versions I wasn't aware of. I love the idea of an "aural mobile tradition" (so to speak I guess). The idea of a content being traded via mobile untethered from a central server. I suppose that's kind of like Bittorrent for mobile?
btucker 11y ago
http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/about/ http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/about/ > Reply All is a show about the internet
goatforce5 11y ago
Back when Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media was Alex Blumberg of NPR he did an episode of a radio show (which was subsequently released as a podcast) about someone who owned patents for a proto-podcast service that was distributed on cassette tape. He was using those patents to claim he was owed licensing fees by modern day internet podcasters. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-462-when-patents-hit-the-podcast http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-...

The episode is explicitly mentioned in the article. Also, just curious, is there any other kind of podcast besides an internet one?

by speik 11y ago

The episode is explicitly mentioned in the article. Also, just curious, is there any other kind of podcast besides an internet one?

thedaemon 11y ago

podcast - Episodic content played on an iPod. So yes, you download podcasts and play them on your iPod, originally. A newer term is Netcast. I find it better because it removes the branding. :|

TeMPOraL 11y ago
Oh, so that's why they're called podcasts... Always wondered, but never bothered to check it.

JohnBooty 11y ago

I know you're being facetious and poking fun at the redundancy of the phrase "Internet podcast" but now you have me thinking about how cool an offline podcast might be. Maybe it would be distributed via physical dead drops on USB sticks, or pirate wi-fi networks beamed from disposable drones flown by courageous freedom fighters, or maybe it would be distributed via IP over avian carrier: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 (In all seriousness, my very loose understanding is that in a lot of countries without robust Internet infrastructure, music is often traded directly from phone to phone. It's possible that podcasts or spoken-word messages are traded this way as well...)

JonnieCache 11y ago
>my very loose understanding is that in a lot of countries without robust Internet infrastructure, music is often traded directly from phone to phone. You are indeed correct. https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-cellphones https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-ce... Africa has had a spoken-word radio radio culture for a long time AFAIK.
speik 11y ago
I actually really wasn't being facetious. It was my understanding that podcasts were an Internet centric thing, and was curious whether there were offline versions I wasn't aware of. I love the idea of an "aural mobile tradition" (so to speak I guess). The idea of a content being traded via mobile untethered from a central server. I suppose that's kind of like Bittorrent for mobile?

btucker 11y ago

http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/about/ http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/about/ > Reply All is a show about the internet

goatforce5 11y ago

Back when Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media was Alex Blumberg of NPR he did an episode of a radio show (which was subsequently released as a podcast) about someone who owned patents for a proto-podcast service that was distributed on cassette tape. He was using those patents to claim he was owed licensing fees by modern day internet podcasters. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-462-when-patents-hit-the-podcast http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-...