Podcasts Go Platinum!

[摘要] “Podcast,” a noun now firmly entrenched in the vernacular, is a recently minted portmanteau suggested just 10 years ago (1, 2). It is sobering to note that other proposals to name the then-new phenomenon of audio production distributed over the Internet included “Audioblogging” and “GuerillaMedia” (2). As I wrote a draft of this article, I became aware that the predecessor for all of today's mobile media players—the Sony Walkman—just celebrated its 35th anniversary (3). One wonders what Akio Morita, who passed away just 1 year before the advent of the World Wide Web, would think of today's technologies that in many ways are progeny of that once sleek, now bulky, cassette-playing audio device.As might have been anticipated, podcasts were first embraced by traditional broadcast media, but that was quickly followed by …

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