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> He does want people to know for example that podcasts were a natural outgrowth of RSS, so natural he hand a hand in adding it himself despite not having an audio background.

In that he is right by the way: He had a back and forth with Adam Curry, I believe, about audio attachments, and as a result Winer added the enclosure element. Everything else about podcasts, the name, the MediaRSS extensions, the coopting by Apple, the iTunes directory and extensions, the professionalization, came later. Funnily enough Winer tends to think about his own podcasts more as a stream of consciousness voice memo than an edited product.

(Yes, I'm reading him that long. Like pretty much everyone, who reads him that long, I have mixed and complicated about him.)