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December 06, 2005

Podcast Is Word of the Year

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Posted by Alex Williams

Saw over at MicroPersuasion that editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have named podcast as the word of the year. (Steve notes that Oxford American has a blog but not a podcast.)

My question: Now, how does Oxford American's choice of words affect the history of podcasting? Will this be a marked moment?

Check out podcasting and some of the other top words in their press release. I find the first three haunting:

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)

And these uplifting:

lifehack (a more efficient or effective way of completing an everyday task: "I found a great lifehack for getting a cheap hotel room.")

reggaeton (a Latin American dance music which combines elements of reggae music with hip-hop and rap.)

RSS, now there's a great lifehack.

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