Let’s see if I can get this straight.<\/p>\n
First, Chris Pirillo<\/a> says (timecode 37:59) he’s not entirely pleased with the word “podcast” in Episode 11 of This Week in Tech<\/a>. The Seattle-PI then reports that the sentiment is shared with “several Microsoft employees” who have coined the word “blogcast” to replace it<\/a>. Next, c|net picks up the story<\/a> and says that the word “podcast” is a “faux-pas” on Microsoft campus. [Typo fixed: 9am] <\/p>\n In this manner, a remark by someone who isn’t even a Microsoft employee becomes, through rumor, speculation, and wild extrapolation, a word-ban at Microsoft. <\/p>\n Pretty neat trick. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let’s see if I can get this straight. First, Chris Pirillo says (timecode 37:59) he’s not entirely pleased with the word “podcast” in Episode 11 of This Week in Tech. The Seattle-PI then reports that the sentiment is shared with “several Microsoft employees” who have coined the word “blogcast” to replace it. Next, c|net picks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-34903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Let’s see if I can get this straight. First, Chris Pirillo says (timecode 37:59) he’s not entirely pleased with the word “podcast” in Episode 11 of This Week in Tech. The Seattle-PI then reports that the sentiment is shared with “several Microsoft employees” who have coined the word “blogcast” to replace it. Next, c|net picks […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}