What's a podcast?
In an age of content blurring across multiple platforms at once, Ashley Carmen on industry efforts to define what exactly constitutes a "podcast":
Here’s where the group ended up: “A podcast is an on-demand show rooted in the spoken word and fully intelligible as audio. Typically episodic and conversational, podcasts cover wide-ranging themes and formats. They are accessed as audio or video via open RSS feeds and other distribution methods.”
A shorter version boils down to: “If it works with your eyes closed, it’s a podcast.”
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