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Someone with a microphone, opinions, and a deeply suspicious lack of an editor.
means A person who records and distributes their own audio (or video) show, usually episodic and available for download or streaming, without needing a broadcast license or a network's permission.
from A blend of 'iPod' — Apple's once-ubiquitous portable music player — and 'broadcasting.' The word 'podcast' itself is usually credited to a 2004 Guardian column by journalist Ben Hammersley, who coined it to describe the then-new trend of amateur audio shows syndicated via RSS feeds for download onto MP3 players. 'Podcaster' followed naturally as the label for the person behind the mic. Tellingly, the name stuck long after iPods themselves faded — a fossil of the gadget preserved inside the word for the medium it spawned.
- origin
- named after the iPod, which no longer exists
- equipment flex
- spends more on mics than therapy
- average episode
- two hours long, says nothing in one
- career path
- unemployed person with strong opinions and RSS feed