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The implications behind the ‘who named podcasting’ question

Posted on April 8, 2013April 8, 2013 by Ewan Spence

What upsets me about Dave Winer’s re-fashioning of the origins of podcasting is not the debate about who got to the name ‘podcast’ first (as Winer points out, he heard this first on September 15th 2004, while Ben Hammersly talked about ‘podcast’ as an alternative to the then accepted term of ‘audioblogging’ on February 12th 2004). I’ll credit Winer and the iPodder-Dev list for adopting the name podcasting for their project, sure. I’ll credit Winer for adding enclosure support to RSS (and that’s the big one, tech wise). But there’s no way that Winer can take credit for creating a

Ten weeks later, the Room 404 podcast is still going strong

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Ewan Spence

Sarah Blow heads into the depths of Room 404 this week, and @GirlyGeekdom has a bundle of “education” to try and bring back for the rest of the world to enjoy once more.

The Sunday Times is Pre-Revenue, Let’s Twitter That

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Ewan Spence

I think Kevin Marks nails the reply to The Sunday Times Twitter article rather nicely: Launched in 1821, The Sunday Times is the inescapable, old tech product. It boasts 1.2m readers — teeny compared to the BBC World Services’s 183m — but its audience has slumped in the past year. Right now, the Australia-based company that owns The Sunday Times is valued at $29billion, even though, in start-up argot, it is “pre-revenue”. Despite the big losses and the ennui swirling around his product, Murdoch (who also coined the term “Digger”) has admitted many are bewildered when they first encounter The