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"Podcast"
Has Been Chosen as the Most Popular Word of 2005
By Jeff
Mills
Podcasting slowly crept into the
vocabulary and the internet marketplace in 2004 as the birth of the
home radio show, where people can play music and talk about any
subject they want with no rules and no regulations.
Later in 2005, Jeff Mills, author of
the popular e-book, “Podcast Secrets Revealed” predicted
“Podcasting” would be the most popular trend of 2005, just like
“blogging” was in 2004.
As he was sitting in a Burger King
restaurant, in late 2004, he first saw the word “podcast” in
print in a USA Today newspaper.
It was an article about the GodCast
Podcast, and how people were taking the messages of the Scriptures
and sending an audio mp3 through the internet in an RSS feed that
could be downloaded with enclosures and automatically put into your
PC or favorite mp3 listening device, ALL AT ONCE.
For the non geeks, what that means is
that audio files were automatically able to be downloaded and
listened almost as easily as downloading mp3 files from any popular
mp3 music site. Cool stuff!
What happened next was that in 2005
EVERY major news program, talk show, or superstar musician got into
podcasting, or sending their audio content through their own home
grown RSS feeds right into people pc’s and mp3 players.
Then iTunes and Yahoo got into the
podcast business over the summer of 2005 and podcasting went main
stream.
User’s mp3 players were suddenly
filled with Rush Limbaugh, ESPN, Tech TV, talk shows, new music
shows, even porn/sex shows, and many other mainstream media programs
were sending out audio mp3’s to their loyal fans for free and
people were filling up their iPod gigabytes faster than you could
say “podcasting revolution.”
It has been a wild year for the word
“podcast” and when you type it currently, at the time of this
writing, into Google.com, “podcast” now has over 81,300,000
sites linked to that word.
Because of this the popularity of
Podcasting in 2005, Erin McKean, editor in chief of the New Oxford
American Dictionary, said: "The word has finally caught up with
the rest of the iPod phenomenon."
According to the New Oxford American
Dictionary, “Podcast” is now the word of the year!
Right on the heels of Podcast making
the word of the year, Yahoo quietly launched a new search function
to try to corner the AUDIO search market.
As people were doing their last
minute shopping and frantically getting ready for the holidays,
Yahoo added a new search tab on their popular search menu called,
“Audio.”
A Yahoo spokesperson said, “I
wanted to spread the word that we're turning up the volume a bit on
audio search by adding a new "Audio" tab to the Yahoo!
Front Page. Since launching Audio Search in August, user response
has been great; proving yet again that the Web wants its audio. So,
it is time that a larger audience gets to enjoy the sound…”
Whatever Yahoo isn't indexing with
its Audio Search can be submitted by the creators of audio files, so
podcaster, you may want to quickly get your shows listed in there,
and gain top spots, while the gettin’s good.
The company wrote a Media RSS
specification that accompanied the debut of Audio Search. This spec
better supports multimedia content; Yahoo also uses it for Video
Search.
What is already on the radar for
2006?
Self produced video shows, like TV
stations, will crop up all over the internet, as people begin to
broadcast their own video/tv shows and play them on media players
like the iPod Video Player and other devices. Google is paving the
way for video, by allowing people to do searches for videos right
from their search box.
iTunes is coming along quickly too,
with Video Podcasts which might be a misnomer, but the arrival of
the video podcast show is now here too.
Video Blogging or Vlogging is my
prediction for the most popular word in 2006.
Jeff Mills Jeff
is a former Youth Pastor of 9 years, who is now a full time internet
information entrepreneur, book author, speaker, sales coach, and
also an avid traveler.
Jeff has passionately pursued seeking
the best ways to create podcast shows and is the respected author of
the popular e-book, http://www.podcastsecretsrevealed.com.
At http://www.podcastsecretsrevealed.com,
one will learn step by step what a podcast is, how to listen to one,
how to make one and even how to make money from one's podcast show.
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