On June 24, 2026, Dave Winer pointed to a podcasting article in – wait for it – Glamour Magazine – and the South African version at that! Anyway, it gives a brief history of podcasting (mentioning Dave Winer and Adam Curry), but then says that Ben Hammersley coined the word “podcast”, and I felt that was incorrect. I reviewed the Podcast article on Wikipedia, and it mentions the Ben Hammersley article. I reviewed the archived article, from February 2004, and the word “Podcasting” appears within a list of possible names for what the act of podcasting is, but does not recommend/promote the use of the word “podcasting”.
Dave Winer has a page discussing how the people involved in podcasting started using the term in September 2004, and that it had been called “audioblogging” before that point. Wikipedia does mention some of the September 2004 events. From my review, I think that the September 2004 point is a better reference point for actual use of the terms “podcast” and “podcasting.