It is my understanding that the Oxford English Dictionary is adding the words podcast, podcasting, podcaster, and podcasted to their official lexicon.  Rest easy podcasters, you have been validated!

It has been said that the rapid progression of technology and media will add more new words to our everyday language in the next few years than have been added in the last 100.  While podcasting took 4 or five years to “officially” get recognized by the OED, I suppose this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Just thought this was interesting.

-Scott Meath