Gregory's ServerTalk about your tempests in a teapot…
A citation from Wikipedia might be helpful (but probably won’t as I scan the comments on the thread):
"Podcast" is a portmanteau of "iPod" and "broadcast".[9][10][11] The earliest use of "podcasting" was traced to The Guardian columnist and BBC journalist Ben Hammersley,[12] who coined it in early February 2004 while writing an article for The Guardian newspaper.[13]