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'Podcast' Is the Word of the Year

Yahoo News, Newswire

Only a year ago, podcasting was an arcane activity, the domain of a few techies and self-admitted "geeks." Now you can hear everything from NASCAR coverage to NPR's All Things Considered in downloadable audio files called "podcasts". That's why the editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have selected "podcast" as the Word of the Year for 2005. Podcast, defined as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player."

Runners-up for the 2005 Word of the Year include: bird flu, ICE, IDP, IED, lifehack, persistent vegetative state, reggaeton, rootkit, squick, sudoku, trans fat.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051205/nym208.html?.v=26

Mark says: I still haven't listened to one! However, I have lots of mp3 files of messages from Calvary Chapel San Jose, and I recently bought two versions of the Bible on mp3 (New King James version and New Living Translation, each available in the Calvary Chapel bookstore for about $2).

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