Podcast vs. Blog — What's the Difference?

A podcast is an episodic series of spoken word digital audio files that a user can download to a personal device for easy listening. Streaming applications and podcasting services provide a convenient and integrated way to manage a personal consumption queue across many podcast sources and playback devices.

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.

A series of digital media files distributed over the internet to which a user can subscribe by means of a syndication application.

A website that displays postings by one or more individuals in chronological order and usually has links to comments on specific postings.

The content of one or all of the files in such a series.

To write entries in, add material to, or maintain a blog.

To distribute a series of digital media files over the internet in a format accessible by a syndication application.

(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)

A programme, especially an audio programme, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

(Internet) An individual post to a blog.

(loosely) An individual episode of such a programme.

To contribute to a blog.

(transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

To blag, to steal something; to acquire something illegally.

(intransitive) To deliver a programme, especially an audio programme, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

A shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies