"Wordcast"- Stolen by Sci-Fi Nuts, Christians, and…
“Wordcast”- Stolen by Sci-Fi Nuts, Christians, and Jonathan Fox!
Well – wordcast sounded like a better option than blogging – but we’ve been beaten to the proverbial punch by some unlikely contenders. And the first one is a doozy.
In first place, with “wordcast.com” are the strange stylings of the “Arthur C. Clarke Egogram. That’s right, it’s Arthur’s blog.
To summarize his year: he’s ninety now, missing his Chihuahua, and believes the Golden Age of space travel is yet ahead of us, including, “fee-paying passengers will be experiencing sub-orbital flights aboard privately funded passenger vehicles, built by a new generation of engineer-entrepreneurs with an unstoppable passion for space.”
Most interesting to ME however was this quote: “I am very encouraged by the wide-spread acceptance of the Space Elevator, which can make space transport cheap and affordable to ordinary people. This daring engineering concept, which I popularised in The Fountains of Paradise (1978), is now taken very seriously,” can anyone say, corridor of glory?
And the runners-up:
Christian Music broadcasting = “Word-Casting”
And bringing up third place: this guy.
If we want to unite and start a wordcast union – it will make for unlikely company.
Brent Steeno said,
February 9, 2007 at 11:57 pm
ya but look “wikipedia” and you will see who came up with the word first.
Jonathan Fox said,
February 25, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Hi Kyle,
I’d be careful before you go around saying people “Stole” the name “Wordcast” Ive been using it on my blog for over a year and I was tring to think of a written alternative to Podcast. Leo Laporte does a similar thing with his TWIT (This week in tech) show by calling them NETcasts.
As It happens I want to change my blog name and move it to its own domain but I can assure you it was not Stolen. Call it parallel evolution.
Geez, next thing I know I’ll have some other guy in Middle America saying I cant use my name because its owned by “X” number of other people around the world.