Podcasting Officially a Word

goldseries writes "The BBC is reporting that the New Oxford American Dictionary is adding podcasting to the dictionary. A year ago it was rejected because not enough people were reading it, but, in a ode to the speed of technology's growth, it is being declared the word of the year. Podcasting has been in the Oxford Dictionary of English since last summer. Podcast beat out words such as lifehack and rootkit for inclusion in the dictionaries. I guess no one needs to know what a rootkit is."

Comments

Bollocks

[Anonymous Coward]

Radio shows on a portable audio players deserves to be a word in the dictionary? Absolutely useless.

Perhaps they're trying to be trendy and get more people to purchase their books but this is a silly word to add just to satiate the hipsters. If you want to listen to your radio shows go pick up an MP3 player with a built-in FM tuner and drop the style accessory called "iPod"

Is it good or bad?

[Arthur B.]

On the one hand I hate this cause it sounds like apple invented the mp3 player and this makes me completly crazy... you know those kind of assumptions:
I've got a PC => Oh you have windows
I have an MP3 player => Ah, an IPOD
NO YOU FUCKING MORONIC FUCK, I DON'T NEED A FUCKING MARKETTING HYPE MACHINE TO LEARN, WITH A FIVE YEAR LAG, THAT SOMETHING CALLED AN MP3 PLAYER EXISTS.
So now it sounds like they invented the "podcasting"... great, cause it's for ipods right... I mean it's a music file, they play on ipods no?

On the other hand, the word going official is generally bad for trademarks... I wish "ipod" would make it in the dictionnary as "MP3 player" so anyone can start selling ipods... mouwahahahah