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The symbol Apple uses to represent podcasts

A "podcast" (or, less commonly, "netcast") is this: a posting of files, usually audio or video, set up so that it can be subscribed to through a Web feed (RSS) by an aggregator program. That's it. That's all it is. It can be a radio show, or an audio/video blog or pretty much anything. Basically, a Radio show on the internet.

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It's a very basic tool given a fashionable, swanky, yet nearly nonsensical name (which comes from playing them on iPods) to make it seem special and magical. Like pretty much everything else on the internet. On the other hand, it's a simple, catchy name for a common phenomenon, much like 'television' and 'radio', both of which earned howls and jeers when they were new (the names and the phenomena).

Notable is that the art of podcasting was arguably started by and inalienably connected to a man named David H. Lawrence XVII, as a newsletter for a radio company that attached RealAudio files to the emails that they sent out. He also went into acting a little later in life, and became best known as The Puppetmaster, Eric Doyle. No seriously, same guy.

There is a term for a book done as a podcast: Podiobooks. When a Fan Fic is given this treatment, it's known as a Podfic. For a list of audio drama podcasts in the Science Fiction genre, see Science Fiction Podcasts.

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See also: Audio Play.

Examples (organised by subject matter)

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Anime and Manga

Audio Dramas

Comic Books

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Film

Literature

Live-Action TV

Music

Professional Wrestling

Sports

Tabletop Games

Acquisitions Incorporated
The Adventure Zone
- The Adventure Zone: Balance
- The Adventure Zone: (K)Nights
- The Adventure Zone: Commitment
- The Adventure Zone: Amnesty
- The Adventure Zone: Dust
- The Adventure Zone: Graduation
Blue Dawn
bomBARDed
Brilliant Gameologists
Cool Kids Table
- The Fallen Gods
- Sequinox
Critical Hit
Cthulhu & Friends
Dice And Virtue
Dice Funk
DND Is For Nerds
DNDND
The Drunk and The Ugly
Dungeons & Daddies
Dungeons And Dragon Wagon
Dungeons and Randomness
Eidolon Playtest
Fandible
Film Reroll
Flip the Table
Floptales
Friends at the Table
Gays in Capes
Four Geeks Four E
Grumpy RPG Reviews
Interstitial Actual Play
Jemjammer
Jennisodes
Join the Party
The Letters Page (Links back to the game it's about as it's made by the games creators and directly ties into the lore of the game. Official link here The Letters Page)
Lucky Sevens
NeoScum
Nerd Poker
Not Another D&D Podcast
One Shot Podcast
- Campaign Star Wars
- Campaign: Sky Jacks
Past Division
Pokémon World Tour: United
Pretend Friends
Godsfall
Queens Of Adventure
Roll Play
Roll to Breathe
RPGMP3
RPPR Actual Play
Rusty Quill Gaming
Semiautomagic Inc.
Shuffle Quest
Six Feats Under
- LP D&D
- LP 13th Age
Spout Lore
Trailblazers
The Tritone Gambit
Verbal Component
You Meet In A Tavern

Video Games

Web Comics

Western Animation

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