Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted “geeks.” Now you can hear everything from NASCAR coverage to NPR’s All Things Considered in downloadable audio files called “podcasts”. Thousands of podcasts are available at the iTunes Music Store, and websites such as iPodder.com and Podcast.net track thousands more. That’s why the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have selected “podcast” as the Word of the Year for 2005. Podcast, defined as “a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player,” will be added to the next online update of the New Oxford American
Dictionary, due in early 2006.
Runners-up for the 2005 Word of the Year include:
• bird flu (an often fatal flu virus of birds, esp. poultry, that is transmissible from them to humans, in whom it may also prove fatal)
• ICE (an entry stored in one’s cellular phone that provides emergency contact information)
• IDP (internally displaced person; someone forced to relocate within a country because of a natural disaster or civil unrest)
• IED (improvised explosive device, such as a car bomb)
• lifehack (a more efficient or effective way of completing an everyday task: “I found a great lifehack for getting a cheap hotel room.”)
• persistent vegetative state (a condition in which a patient recovering from a coma retains reflex responses and may appear wakeful, but has no cognitive functions or other evidence of cerebral cortical activity)
• reggaeton (a Latin American dance music which combines elements of reggae music with hip-hop and rap.)
• rootkit (software installed on a computer by someone other than the owner, intended to conceal other programs or processes, files or system data.)
• squick (cause immediate and thorough revulsion: “was anyone else squicked by our waiter’s piercings?”)
• sudoku (a logic-based puzzle consisting of squares that form grids within a grid. Into each smaller grid, the numerals 1 through 9 are entered but not repeated, and they may not be repeated in any row or column of the larger grid.)
• trans fat (fat containing trans-fatty acids, considered unhealthier than other dietary fats.)
Erin McKean, editor in chief of the New Oxford American Dictionary, said: “Podcast was considered for inclusion last year, but we found that not enough people were using it, or were even familiar with the concept. This year it’s a completely different story. The word has finally caught up with the rest of the iPod phenomenon.”
“Choosing the word of the year is incredibly difficult,” said McKean. “Not just because of the enormous amount of data we look at-everything from blogs to technical journals to suggestions sent to dictionaries@oup.com -but because everyone has such strong opinions about what makes a word Word of the Year material. You’d be amazed at how hard our editors campaign for their favorites. I’m surprised nobody tried to bribe me — except that the only thing I really want is more cool new words!”
Oxford University Press, Inc. (OUP USA), is Oxford University Press’s second major publishing center, after Oxford (UK). It publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. The Press had its origins in the information technology revolution of the late fifteenth century, which began with the invention of printing from movable type. The first book was printed in Oxford in 1478. More info here.
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Rainy Day. Once again I am surprised. Loved your Foundation/Empire references in past comments. Steve J.= Hari Seldon? Now you mention “1421”! Wow! I read that book and as a former mariner, his research as to currents etc. is quite valid.
Mw-served. as in my MDN ad content done got “served”
Good Job MDN!
Apple has but this article on their Apple Hot News Headlines-site!
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
Now MDN is a “Official Mac News Site”
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This is the stupidest article I’ve read in a long time.
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check out my “podcast” mafia inc.
Sorry guys, have not much to say. I’ll start podcasting as soon as I get the time for it. I have a few interesting application ideas for it.
But the above conversation has been quite amusing to read. Thank you!
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You people sound like a bunch of immature middle-schoolers. I’m dead serious.
GO MICROSOFT!
i thought these forums were supposed to be helpful and non-vulgar. what the fuck do i know?
microsoft sucks bill gates. FUCK the cheap immitation–microhard
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gee, i didn’ know that people pick a word of the year!! Interesting~i’m onna keep track of it, too!
The feedbacks were interesting!
big als mum should try a blowcast
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buggy405, it would be a wise move to not show your ugly face on this site again.
And I thought ICE was a fast train in Germany
ahhh, m$ can piss off about the fact that apple is well… JUST PLAIN BETTER! GO PODCAST.
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New word? ..hmm what about
wordified
ya know how these days people on blogs, chat rooms etc tyr to out word eachother when they get into those insult frenzies .. you could say to the one that appears to lose the text battle = “you sure got wordified by that person!”
I guess that’ll be a couple years until you see people start saying stuff like = “You just got your font handed to you! .. your typin fingers can’t stand up to this! .. your text wishes it never got key pushed this morning! .. you might as well just let your mouse battle for you!.. You Num-lock’er! you’ve been wordified!”
who knows
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Not boring.One time we can read it for time pass.
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Great for people with vision problem. Do you like Reggae?
thats interesting I didn’t even know that. I’ll go check it out
all in one forum
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