Chapter 1A Brief History of Podcasting

I loved it [podcasting]. I was watching Doc Searls and what he was doing in terms of writing about it, and then I talked to Adam (Curry) pretty early on and I wanted to write something just to get something in the magazine as soon as possible, because I just had a sense that this was pretty amazing. There were a lot of different things that were coming together.

—Heather Green, Business Week

Podcasts, or audioblogs as they were first called, started as a collaborative effort between Dave Winer and Adam Curry. Back in 2001 the two talked about a better way to deliver audio and video via the Internet ...

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