Blogcast
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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.
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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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