An American media personality, formerly an MTV video jockey, who became one of podcasting's most visible early promoters in the mid-2000s. He founded PodShow (later Mevio) in 2005 and hosted the Daily Source Code podcast beginning in August 2004, work that earned him the nickname 'the Podfather.' Curry's own primary contribution was popularizing and commercializing podcasting as a mainstream medium rather than inventing its underlying RSS enclosure technology, a distinction some commentators and sources contest; see the open discussion of podcasting's credit recorded on this atlas.
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Defining ContributionPopularized podcasting as a mainstream medium through the Daily Source Code podcast (2004) and PodShow (2005). 1 Widely called the Podfather for popularizing podcasting through Daily Source Code (2004) and PodShow (2005); the RSS enclosure mechanism itself was implemented by software developer Dave Winer, a distinction recorded as a dissent below rather than flattened into a single inventor credit. Connections
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Wikimedia Foundation- Birth Year: 1964
- Nationality: American
- Defining Contribution: Popularized podcasting as a mainstream medium through the Daily Source Code podcast (2004) and PodShow (2005).
2. Adam Curry (Wikipedia)
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Adam Clark Curry (born September 3, 1964) is an American podcaster, announcer, internet entrepreneur, and media personality, known for his stint as a VJ on MTV and being one of the first celebrities to personally create and administer websites.
- Adam Curry, infobox
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Also known for co-hosting the No Agenda show, in the 2000s, he first became involved in podcasting and has been called the "Podfather" because of his efforts. == Early broadcast career == Curry was born in Arlington, Virginia, but lived in Amstelveen, Netherlands, from 1972 to 1987.
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- Associated With: Podcasting
- Milestones Credited: Origins of Podcasting Technology
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Defining Contribution
The reading that credits the technologist over the popularizer: Dave Winer, an author of the RSS format, implemented the enclosure mechanism in 2000 that made podcasting technically possible, four years before Adam Curry's Daily Source Code (2004) or PodShow (2005). Ben Hammersley, not Curry, coined the word "podcasting" itself, in a February 2004 Guardian article. On this reading Curry's real and lasting contribution was popularizing and commercializing an already-invented format, which the nickname "Podfather" tends to blur into a stronger claim of invention than the record supports.
A dissenting reading, from an independent laneWikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
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