This Week in Tech · Monday, July 27, 2026
Leo Laporte credited Adam Curry with being instrumental in the beginnings of podcasting. Curry is cited as the person who convinced Dave Winer to add a binary enclosure to RSS, enabling audio in feeds and thus the start of podcasting in 2004. Curry later partnered with John C. Dvorak in a podcasting company called MeVio.
“But he made a great friend in, uh, former MTV VJ Adam Curry, who many credit, and I think probably rightly so with starting podcasting. He was the one who convinced Dave Winer, the creator of RSS, to add one little piece to RSS, which was a binary enclosure, so he could put audio. Adam Curry said, I want to put audio in there. And started podcasting off right in 2004.”
“Adam then started a podcasting company called MeVio. John was a partner there.”