Solaris has no idea what a podcast is

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I followed a link on Solaris' site to their ZFS Podcast.

I looked on the page for the RSS feed, but I only found an MP3 file. Turns out, Sun thinks that an MP3 file is a podcast.

What is a Podcast?
 A podcast is an audio-only, short, MP3 file that plays either on a portable MP3 player (like the iPod) or can be played 
 through Sun, PC, Linux, platforms using free players.

According to Wikipedia:

  • A podcast is a digital media file, or a related collection of such files, which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers.

Neither does ThoughtWorks

Solaris, at least has an MP3 on their 'podcast' page. ThoughtWorks created a 'podcasts' page, which contains a listing for a single mp3, but somehow they managed to include neither an RSS feed nor the MP3 (As of 30 Dec 07).