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Reply All, an excellent internet podcast did an episode about jennicam. Pretty interesting stuff.

http://gimletmedia.com/episode/5-the-jennicam/

I just listened to that yesterday! I'm loving Reply All, and also the other podcast by the same company, StartUp [1], which documents the creation of Gimlet Media, itself.

[1] http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/

The episode is explicitly mentioned in the article.

Also, just curious, is there any other kind of podcast besides an internet one?

podcast - Episodic content played on an iPod. So yes, you download podcasts and play them on your iPod, originally. A newer term is Netcast. I find it better because it removes the branding. :|

Oh, so that's why they're called podcasts... Always wondered, but never bothered to check it.

I know you're being facetious and poking fun at the redundancy of the phrase "Internet podcast" but now you have me thinking about how cool an offline podcast might be.

Maybe it would be distributed via physical dead drops on USB sticks, or pirate wi-fi networks beamed from disposable drones flown by courageous freedom fighters, or maybe it would be distributed via IP over avian carrier: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

(In all seriousness, my very loose understanding is that in a lot of countries without robust Internet infrastructure, music is often traded directly from phone to phone. It's possible that podcasts or spoken-word messages are traded this way as well...)

>my very loose understanding is that in a lot of countries without robust Internet infrastructure, music is often traded directly from phone to phone.

You are indeed correct.

https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-saharan-ce...

Africa has had a spoken-word radio radio culture for a long time AFAIK.

I actually really wasn't being facetious. It was my understanding that podcasts were an Internet centric thing, and was curious whether there were offline versions I wasn't aware of.

I love the idea of an "aural mobile tradition" (so to speak I guess). The idea of a content being traded via mobile untethered from a central server. I suppose that's kind of like Bittorrent for mobile?

http://gimletmedia.com/show/reply-all/about/ > Reply All is a show about the internet

Back when Alex Blumberg of Gimlet Media was Alex Blumberg of NPR he did an episode of a radio show (which was subsequently released as a podcast) about someone who owned patents for a proto-podcast service that was distributed on cassette tape. He was using those patents to claim he was owed licensing fees by modern day internet podcasters.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/05/31/187374157/episode-...

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