Not-Podcasting
Apple are sending out a suite of law-suits to protect the word “pod” as used in the word podcasting. They have targeted iPodder – which I can understand – it’s the “i” and the “pod” used together that is their trademark. However I don’t see how they can win on “pod” which is a universal word. However, in any case podcasts are so much more than something you download to your iPod, so a practitioner I met yesterday reckons that the word will change within a year or so. Current alternatives include “feedcasting” or “netcasting”.
Apple threat prompted name change, coders say from c|net news.