Leo Laporte Gives Up on Podcasting
9 Oct 2006 in Apple, Leo Laporte, Podcast, PodcastExpo by GarrickI’ve subscribed to the Daily Giz Wiz for quite a while now - the combination of goofy banter, unloved gadgets, generally silliness, and it’s brevity makes for great podcasting. It’s the only TWIT-family podcast I was still subscribed.
Unfortunately, in today’s - #166 - the new TWIT intro calls it a ‘netcast’.
Lame. What’s a ‘netcast’? Do I need a boat and a body of water?
I heard Laporte’s rational for attempting to change the name at the recent 2006 PodcastExpo - he wants Apple to claim trademark of ‘podcast’. A term and media form developed by the podcast community - not Apple.
Double Lame. Rather than standing up to Apple, supporting the podcast community, simplifying the explanation for new listeners, keeping things simple for existing listeners - Laporte gives up.
Like Dave Winer said about RSS vs Atom: Two is more than twice as bad.
This thing - a multimedia file distributed via an RSS feed - is a podcast.
I’m unsubbing from DGW until it’s called a ‘podcast’ or at least a ‘clambake‘. I can’t support a name change and the software I’m using only understands ‘podcasts’.
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I completely agree with Tony @ Deep Jive Interests when he says:
“I just don’t see what [leaving Twitter] is going to solve.”
This is another silly publicity stunt from the big twit.
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Comments (3)
Michael Koppelman added these pithy words on Oct 09 06 at 11:15 amYeah, that’s lame. I got mad at Apple recently for that in my stupidity roundup.
Never complain when people do your advertising for you!
Mark Woodman added these pithy words on Oct 09 06 at 2:23 pmI 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.
Garrick Van Buren added these pithy words on Oct 09 06 at 2:49 pmMark, 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
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