"Podcast" is the Word of the Year

The editors of the New Oxford American Dictionary have selected “podcast” as the Word of the Year for 2005. Podcasts are like radio broadcasts that you download from the Internet and listen to on your computer or your music player like an iPod.

Other Word of the Year contenders were:

• bird flu
• ICE
• IDP
• IED
• lifehack
• persistent vegetative state
• reggaeton
• rootkit
• squick – cause immediate and thorough revulsion
• sudoku
• trans fat

Don’t squick out, Pulpconnection won’t be going to a podcast format any time soon.