Podcasting Has Been Crowned

When you're MTV you 'crown' the artist who made the biggest stink that year at the MTV Music awards.  When you're the New Oxford American Dictionary what do you do?

You proclaim a single word, "The Word of the Year!"

The term 'podcast' been declared as Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary.  The term is defined as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the internet for downloading to a personal audio player".

It's sad, isn't it?  Of course, when you have a big winner on your hands, there must be a loser (or two).

Among the words that did not make it were two other terms popular in tech circles. One was lifehack, which refers to a more efficient way of completing a everyday task. The other was rootkit, defined as software installed on a computer by someone other than the owner, intended to conceal other programs or processes, files or system data.

Let's all say a prayer for the fallen...  Lifehack and Rootkit were good words.  They were used daily by the geeks of the world...  Geez that's just stupid. How about we crown the NOAD stupid?

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