Continuing my puzzlement about what the direct object of various neologisms should be - is it accurate to say that the listener to/downloader of a podcast is "podcasting"?
I thought the one who does the podcasting is the person who makes the show, or at least uploads a show that may have been aired first on radio or TV (by analogy with "to broadcast").
But twice now I've heard BBC Radio say when announcing that their shows are available as podcasts: "...or you can podcast them by going to our site at xxx.xxx.xx). And they even say this on their website: "We're off air now, but you can podcast the programme here."
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/worldhaveyoursay/
Has anyone else heard this usage?
I have heard it and I agree: it's confusion-making. The term for making or distributing podcasts is "podcasting." The term for downloading and listening to those podcasts is "podcatching." I'm not sure that podcatching is destined to survive, however, not least because it sounds too much like podcasting.
It IS weird, now that you mention it, Monica. I'm trying to think of another word that means both to disseminate information or a performance and consume it. IS there such a word?
(I also agree with Grant that podcatching makes sense, but I can't imagine it surviving.)
Not really, Martha. The only thing I can think of that comes close is to say "to record" a piece of music or show, which could be the studio/record label/radio station recording it to be redistributed, or the person at home with the tape recorder (remember those?) recording what comes over the radio. And possibly also the musician who "recorded" a piano sonata, meaning performs it for the purpose fo the record/CD.
I wouldn't mind seeing a term like "PodGrabbing" or "PodTaking" replace "PodCatching" as the term to download or listen to a podcast.
Any chance we can all agree to use a new term and try to spread it to our non-WWW listening friends?