Podcasts and Screencasts are not the same

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frankarr — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:52:12 GMT

so, what's the collective term? or is your argument such that there shouldn't be one?

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alexbarn — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:55:52 GMT

Good question Frank. I don't know, maybe 'casts'? Blogcast, Screencast, Podcast?

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Mick — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:37:03 GMT

Hmmm...its MEDIA (audio, video, images, whatever)...and it is sort of broadCAST (note that I did say "sort of")...i say we refer to it all as a "MEDIA-CAST". Thats my thinking anyway...

Oh yeah...hang around The Podcast Network for a while yet...you may see more than audio soon enough ;)

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Phillip Molly Malone — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:48:20 GMT

Does it really matter? Doesn't a rose by any other name not still smell so sweet?

On what the collective name for all the Videocasts and podcasts and screencasts etc, why not follow the convention already in place with all the different mark up languages (html, xml, etc(ml)) being called *ml and call the collection of them *casts (or starCasts).

Also, maybe Video, Photo and Audio delivered by RSS shouldn't be called podcasts (as Alex mentioned iPods don't handle them all). I move that we change the name to RiverCasts (after the iRiver of which I am an owner). Mine handles all these formats!

Lastly, forget what us geeks think they should be called, think what the general public will get and if Podcast is it, then perhaps we need to leave it at podcasting and add the media at the end if needed (i.e. Podcast Audio, Podcast Video or Podcast Image).

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Screencast vs. Podcast doesn't matter - your company will call it something different anyway...

Dana VanDen Heuvel — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:10:04 GMT

Alex and Scoble have had some discussions on Screencasts v. Podcasts in recent days, and I don't see the fuss about it all. Certainly they are different things, but anyone who's ever worked in a large corporation with a myriad of tools knows that every company adopts some form of the technical vocab and transforms it into something 'unique for their organization.' In two years, we'll have half-a-dozen names for each anyway. Such as: Instructions = Job aid SFA = SP2 (Sales Productivity Project) or OverQuota, or eSales or what have you... Active Screen Grabs = Screencasting (that's what I...

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MK — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:31:38 GMT

iTunes 4.9 already has rss .mov/.mpg file enclosure enabled - just not many people know about it.I think you'll find that podcasts with video will simply be known as podcasts. I'm already trying to experiment with embedding video in my next nyub rss feed as an attempt to distribute live footage of the bands I've been promoting.

Seen the economist article on podcasting this week? They're finally taking it seriously. ;)

MK

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Denise — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:18:28 GMT

I don't know what we should do about the names but we have to do SOMETHING. My boss has finally embraced the idea of podcasting, probably because her boss has and so has her boss etc... and she is driving me nuts with the following rant: "Why do all of these podcasts have you looking at a blank screen while listening to them?" She just doesn't get it - podcasts are meant to be listened to, not LOOKED AT.

I simply cannot seem to get that through her head, probably because she doesn't have an iPod and her real background is in video. Whatever the reason, she's driving me INSANE with this.

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Kevin Remde — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:06:34 GMT

"Blogcasts" are the term I prefer in that battle, mainly because I choose to share these and make them known in blog entries. (I'm not yet familiar with how enclosures work, so right now it's just a link to some location that will host them.)

And yes, the lines get blurred a bit with Video Blogs or "VBlogs". I'm guilty of blurring that line when I post my video blogs to www.blogcastrepository.com, too.

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Pete Grondal — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:34:56 GMT

While I agree with Kevin Remde that blogcast is a good name (bacause I own videoblogcast.com\.net\.biz\.info)

It's silly to waste much more time using anything but the term "podcast", it has been a genre on most media players now long enough that folks know what you mean without having to over-explain anything.. and frankly I'm tired of explaining the technology.. and jsut want to focus on the content. I'll leave the definitions to wikipedia :) You can say vlog, vblog, vidfeoblog, videoblogcast, blogcast, or video "style" podcast and I'll understand you. BUT without a slang term that defines the general idea we'll never turn the internet into a tivo like we want to. :)

Besides, Scoble like's the term video podcast. I got the idea from him. :)

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Frank — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:11:57 GMT

How about Video Podcasts? ;)

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JCW — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:36:06 GMT

It is a little old school, but how about reclaiming the word "telecast"?

Telecast used to mean an individual television broadcast, as well as the act of broadcasting television, so, like podcast, it could be both a noun and a verb.

It is also phonetically similar to "tellycast", which to my ear, has a pleasing Britishness.

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