Tag: Podcasting

EFF calls for prior art to fight Podcasting patent suit

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Daniel Nazer on the EFF: We’d like to enlist your help to fight this troll. One way to defeat a troll is to prove—either in court or at the patent office—that the claimed invention was not new (or was obvious). In other words, show that the patent applicant didn’t really invent anything. To do this, we need to find publications from before October 2, 1996 that disclose similar or identical ideas (this also known as prior art). The best prior art will include publications describing early versions of podcasting or any other kind of episode distribution over the Internet. I;m drawing

The implications behind the ‘who named podcasting’ question

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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

Should I be worried about Apple’s podcasting patent?

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Apple have been awarded their podcasting patent on “Techniques and systems for supporting podcasting” Pretty sure there’s a bundle of prior art here (Kevin?), but I’m looking at this with a cold chill. I’m not a patent lawyer, but it looks to me that Apple have walked up to the very big podcasting table, opened their jacket enough for everyone to see them carrying an AK-47 Assault Rifle, and have sat down with an innocent smile on their face. I’m waiting for the other foot to drop on this one… Update: Kevin points out, via Twitter, his prior art late in

Six years later, the podcasting survivors look back

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Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff from his Blog World wrap-up: I did see a bunch of friends and folks I’ve known since those olden podcasting days and the common joke we all shared was about being survivors. Every single one of us has parlayed our early indie experiences into career and brand-growing opportunities. All of us have expanded what we were originally doing and continue to thrive in new media… and all those annoying whiners and posers from the days of yore… there wasn’t a single one in sight. And there, in a nutshell, is the evolution of podcasting.

A consistent podcast is a flexible podcast

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One of the initial attractions to podcasting is the ability to listen to a show whenever you want to – be it in the car, the daily jog along the boardwalk, or on a long flight across the Atlantic.  I think this freedom for the listener has been one of the strengths that has made podcasting what it is today. More thoughts on staying regular over on the Blog World Expo blog.

Sometimes you need crap audio on your podcast

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Some of my thoughts on imperfections in the audio helping your podcast sound authentic have went up on the BlogWorld blog, with an example from the mailbag from the Edinburgh Fringe podcast. They loved the interviews, they loved the people that were on the show (and some were buying tickets on the strength of these spots), but they missed something. They missed the hustle and bustle in the background, they missed the feeling that they were right in the thick of the excitement that the Fringe brought to Edinburgh. They missed the moments I had to stop and let a