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NPR's Gaming Podcast
Via Joystiq and Kyle Orland comes the news that National Public Radio is going to be hosting a gaming-related podcast. The show will be hosted by Kyle (of VGMWatch), stand-up artist Ralph Cooper, and All Things Considered games reviewer Robert Holt. From the article: "Kyle - 'You really need to know what art is before you can determine whether video games are art.' Ralph - 'I feel like a lot of video games, at least right now, they're not really trying to make statements.' Rob - 'When I was in Grand Theft Auto ... I was driving through the city and listening to the radio and I drove over a hill and I saw ... this huge moon rise over the horizon, I was just in it at that point. I just knew that this was not your normal game. Of course, I could have just been beating up hookers...'"
It's funny how a "brand" can change something.
Many people refer to any generic tissue for blowing your nose, to Klenex. Klenex is a brand of tissue, but that brand is coined as the defacto term for all tissue.
Just like Klenex, Apple's Ipod has reached a level of iconic status, because simple video clips posted on the net are now refered to as a podcast, yet all they really are is a simple video clip posted on a website. This should more correctly be termed as a vidcast if anything.
Praise the gods of Apple for generating such a term as podcast, and praise the media for using that term to redefine internet released videos.
Self proclaimed wannabe geek. You know how it is. Most of us who read this stuff probably fit in that category.