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Tracking “Podcast” vs. “Blogcast”

Robert Scoble likes Bloglines Citations for its ability to track blog conversations.  He points to the recent item about Microsoft preferring the term "blogcast" over "podcast."  He’s right … that’s a good service.

But more to the point, it will be interesting to see whether the blogcast term catches on.  Obviously, right now it’s being smoked by podcast still.  But we’ll see what happens in coming days.  In addition to Citations, the CustomScoop trend service will help keep an eye on it.

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