When writing my latest entry I realized that I’ve been very silent about my coding progress lately. A month ago I discontinued the Money application. I got bored with it and I it did it’s duty. I learned a lot about Core Data and Cocoa Bindings and I’m now concentrating on the redesign of the IC app. Progress is a bit slow at the moment, but I have some great ideas floating in my head and I’m getting more and more confident that this app is the right way to go.

There has been a lot of talk lately about Apple sending cease and desist letters to companies using the term podcasting in product names. It more or less turned out that the letter was ripped out of context (a very good audio summary of the issue) and a lot of folks in the podcasting scene overreacted. The dust has settled a bit, but comments about Leo Laporte’s plan to change the name to netcasting keep popping up. This is probably due to his keynote at last weekends Podcast and Portable Media Expo, but this really doesn’t matter. What matters is that the term netcasting is in my opinion a bad choice. When I think about a netcast, I think about streaming media. This is something very different to podcasting. I understand that keeping the term podcasting could cause potential issues in the future, but in the mean time the community should stick with it. It’s simply the best desciption for a location and time independent “cast”.