I'm old enough that "watch a podcast" is a nonsense sentence to me, like "taste the rainbow" or "the popcicles are in bloom".
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I'm old enough that "watch a podcast" is a nonsense sentence to me, like "taste the rainbow" or "the popcicles are in bloom".
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Chrisshy Keygenreplied to Chrisshy Keygen last edited by
"Surely, you mean 'listen' to a podcast. Like the things that are named after iPods. Those things that play audio files AND NOTHING MORE"
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Edward Clayton Andrewreplied to Chrisshy Keygen last edited by
@rgegriff
Similar age and they WERE ALREADY doing the video thing back then. -
Chrisshy Keygenreplied to Chrisshy Keygen last edited by
And another thing; if your "podcast" is just a youtube channel, you don't have a podcast, you have a youtube channel.
If it doesn't have an RSS feed attached to it, it isn't a podcast. If I need to use a specific app to listen to it, it's not a podcast.
I understand that language evolves or whatever, but this isn't evolution, this is just taking a perfectly good word and draining it of every ounce of semiotic meaning until it's just a wafer thin chip that just means "people talked and we recorded it"
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Chrisshy Keygenreplied to Edward Clayton Andrew last edited by
@edwardclaytonandrew Yea but we called them VODcasts
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@rgegriff you're right on all counts of course, and also: my brain still files most podcasts as "talk radio." If I like it it's one of "my shows."
Which reinforces the requirement that podcasts be a platform-independent audio file syndicated with RSS since that is literally the only persistent hook that the word "podcast" has in my brain.
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Radical Edward :hackers_town:replied to Chrisshy Keygen last edited by
@rgegriff guess i'm old enough that didn't even parse that as "watch"
thought, "what do you mean listening to podcasts is nonsense?"