The other day a coworker said she hated the word “Uber” as much as I hated the word “Webinar” and it got me to thinking about words like that that I do use. Such as “Podcast” or “Podiobook”. Those words are especially strange to me, because podcast comes from “iPod Broadcast” but It is not a broadcast and is not specific to the iPod either. It is not “Portable on Demand” like some people say, that is a storage company. Podiobook comes from podcast and audiobook, audio book obviously comes from audio and book, but is it really a book to begin with? It does come from a book. and “audiocomesfromabook” sounds stupid. Some, like Leo Laporte have tried to use “Netcast”, sorry but that’s stupid, it sounds like someone is going fishing. A single “netcast” is neither a “net” nor a “broadcast” of any kind.
