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Sunday, January 01, 2006
`Podcast' is lexicon's Word of the Year - Nathan Bierma, Orlando Sentinal
The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have validated the sudden spread of podcasting by naming "podcast" the Word of the Year for 2005. "Podcast," defined as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player," will be added to the next edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary. The word originated as a play on the word "broadcast" using the name of Apple's popular handheld digital music player, the iPod. Apple's iPod made its debut in the fall of 2001, but podcasts didn't come of age until last year. As late as the fall of 2004, according to the Toronto Star, a Google Internet search for "podcast" returned zero results, and Google asked, "Did you mean: broadcast?" One year later, Googling "podcast" turns up over 77 million results.
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