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A blogcast is a
portmanteau of two better known media types, the
blog
and the
podcast into a single website. A blogcast is a podcast with
an associated text summary, which can be indexed by
search engines to make the podcast searchable. A
"'blogcast'" can also be and instrumental piece of music that
would reflect part of someone's life, e.g. a busy piece means a
busy time. It can still be accompanied by text.
History
In early 2006, web designer Aaron Murray realized that
podcasting could venture outside of the
Apple iTunes realm by making them searchable with search
engines. This was accomplished by a simple method of
video blogging with text summaries called shownotes. This
realization came in spite of the fact that podcasting had been
very popular before they were supported by Apple iTunes, and had
always featured shownotes posted on blogs.
After working on the project for a few weeks, Mr. Murray
started using the term blogcast to describe the searchable
podcast-blog-combination, and the term saw some uptake among his
fellow web designers.
The first audio-video blogcasting tests confirmed that search
engines do indeed index shownotes.
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