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Alternative names for Podcasting

How about..

mediacasting (I like this because it covers it all including video)
narrowcasting (I think this may have been used somewhere before)
demandcasting (ie. on demand broadcasting)
peercasting (I don’t know! Just thought it sounded cool)
streamcasting (been used I think)

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One Response to “Alternative names for Podcasting”

  1. PODCAST PODIUM 播客宝典 » Podcasting：由来，含义及译法――兼答bxy Says:
    February 15th, 2006 at 1:46 pm

    [...] 但仍有不少人对Podcasting一词颇有微辞，认为“Pod”和iPod联系过密。于是，有人建议采用“Blogcasting”（理由：Blog无人不知，易被接受，同时字形读音均接近broadcasting）；也有人认为Podcasting是重波刻制作/发布而轻波刻收听/收视，主张用Broadcatching。除此之外，还有其它各种各样的提议：mediacasting，narrowcasting，demandcasting，peercasting 和streamcasting ，甚至还有Ipodding，Treocasting，Mobcasting，PottyCasting，NetCasting，TimeCasting，TimeShifted News，Convocasting, gnomecasting，Podblogging等。此争论到11月6日在斯坦福大学召开的BloggerConIII大会时还有人试图翻案，但被Adam一锤定音：Podcasting更名绝无可能。 [...]