{"id":684,"date":"2005-12-07T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/12\/07\/who-is-the-podfather-who-cares\/"},"modified":"2005-12-07T18:54:47","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T22:54:47","slug":"who-is-the-podfather-who-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/12\/07\/who-is-the-podfather-who-cares\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Podfather? Who Cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7523'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"372\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/podcast203.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" align=\"left\">The<br \/>\n        current &quot;Who Do&quot; over the history of podcasting struck us first as comical<br \/>\n        (as had podcasting itself), then<br \/>\n        as perplexing, and then back to ridiculous.&nbsp; As we mentioned<br \/>\n        in another forum, history written by direct participants is not history,<br \/>\n        it&#8217;s propaganda, however sincere and well-intentioned it may be.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">But a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4504256.stm\">news<br \/>\n          item<\/a> caught up in our news net underlines<br \/>\n        a slightly different take on what&#8217;s going on here.&nbsp; History IS being<br \/>\n        made, right under our eager fingertips, and the version that is being<br \/>\n        laid down now, although not definitive, will forever after be the &quot;source<br \/>\n        material&quot; for future analysis, interpretation and revisionism.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">As someone who witnessed a lot of the action and remains<br \/>\n        friends with most of the principals, we couldn&#8217;t care less.&nbsp; We have<br \/>\n        always been more interested in what&#8217;s <em>going<\/em> to happen than in<br \/>\n        what&#8217;s over and done with. But check it out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Wordsmiths hail podcast success<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>          The term &#8216;podcast&#8217; has been declared Word of the Year by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/brochure\/noad\/?view=usa\">New<br \/>\n          Oxford American Dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>          The term is defined as &quot;a digital recording of a radio broadcast<br \/>\n          or similar program, made available on the internet for downloading to<br \/>\n        a personal audio player&quot;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Good show, all<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4504256.stm\">the BBC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current &quot;Who Do&quot; over the history of podcasting struck us first as comical (as had podcasting itself), then as perplexing, and then back to ridiculous.&nbsp; As we mentioned in another forum, history written by direct participants is not history, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/12\/07\/who-is-the-podfather-who-cares\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}