Comments on: Leo Laporte Gives Up on Podcasting http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/leo-laporte-gives-up-on-podcasting User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Garrick Van Buren http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/leo-laporte-gives-up-on-podcasting/comment-page-1#comment-4983 Garrick Van Buren Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:49:37 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/leo-laporte-gives-up-on-podcasting#comment-4983 Mark, dodging Apple is an implicit admittance of their ownership of the word. One of the reasons Apple doesn't yet have a trademark on it is all the other usage (having the word in the dictionary doesn't help either) - each time someone other than Apple uses the word 'podcast', Apple's claim gets even more tenuous than it is already. That's why using '*cast' is giving up. <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1252" rel="nofollow">Russell Shaw has a great overview of the exchange between Apple and the Trademark Office</a> Mark, dodging Apple is an implicit admittance of their ownership of the word.

One of the reasons Apple doesn’t yet have a trademark on it is all the other usage (having the word in the dictionary doesn’t help either) – each time someone other than Apple uses the word ‘podcast’, Apple’s claim gets even more tenuous than it is already. That’s why using ‘*cast’ is giving up.

Russell Shaw has a great overview of the exchange between Apple and the Trademark Office

]]> By: Mark Woodman http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/leo-laporte-gives-up-on-podcasting/comment-page-1#comment-4982 Mark Woodman Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:23:20 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/leo-laporte-gives-up-on-podcasting#comment-4982 I just listened to the TWiT episode from the expo, and I didn't hear anything that sounded like Leo was endorsing Apple's attempts. He seems to be advocating a switch to "netcast" as an attempt to dodge legal wranglings with Apple. That doesn't mean he wants Apple to claim the trademark, though. Unless you heard something that wasn't podcast/netcast/broadcast? I agree with you that "netcast" is a non-starter. Trying to explain "podcast" is painful enough. I just listened to the TWiT episode from the expo, and I didn’t hear anything that sounded like Leo was endorsing Apple’s attempts.

He seems to be advocating a switch to “netcast” as an attempt to dodge legal wranglings with Apple. That doesn’t mean he wants Apple to claim the trademark, though.

Unless you heard something that wasn’t podcast/netcast/broadcast?

I agree with you that “netcast” is a non-starter. Trying to explain “podcast” is painful enough.

]]> By: Michael Koppelman http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/leo-laporte-gives-up-on-podcasting/comment-page-1#comment-4978 Michael Koppelman Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:15:45 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/leo-laporte-gives-up-on-podcasting#comment-4978 Yeah, that's lame. I got mad at Apple recently for that in my <a href="http://www.lolife.com/blog/archives/000292.html" rel="nofollow">stupidity roundup</a>. <i>Never complain when people do your advertising for you!</i> Yeah, that’s lame. I got mad at Apple recently for that in my stupidity roundup.

Never complain when people do your advertising for you!

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