BlawgCast Issues
If you do not want your podcast aggregated in the BlawgCast feed, please email me.
Why is this a cause of concern? It's certainly not of copyright concern, but Denise Howell indicates (not seriously I hope) that it may rise to the tort of feed interference and that there have already (?) been complaints.
[Editorial: Well, it would have to rise to a new tort, because you simply would not have a claim for copyright infringement, deep linking etc. Consider this: if creating such a feed is "illegal", then so must be the following: technorati tags, del.icio.us, link blogs, feedburner smartcast technology.... someone tell me I'm wrong.]
You can access Denise's most recent podcast discussing this extremely interesting issue by venturing here or subscribing here.
Notes: the feedburner feed seems to be operational again for anyone concerned.
Denise there are approximately 37 subscribers to the "blawgcast all in one feed." Also, feedburner does not interfere with your ability to see your podcast download stats.
Why is this a cause of concern? It's certainly not of copyright concern, but Denise Howell indicates (not seriously I hope) that it may rise to the tort of feed interference and that there have already (?) been complaints.
[Editorial: Well, it would have to rise to a new tort, because you simply would not have a claim for copyright infringement, deep linking etc. Consider this: if creating such a feed is "illegal", then so must be the following: technorati tags, del.icio.us, link blogs, feedburner smartcast technology.... someone tell me I'm wrong.]
You can access Denise's most recent podcast discussing this extremely interesting issue by venturing here or subscribing here.
Notes: the feedburner feed seems to be operational again for anyone concerned.
Denise there are approximately 37 subscribers to the "blawgcast all in one feed." Also, feedburner does not interfere with your ability to see your podcast download stats.
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2 Comments:
Hi Kevin,
Yes, my tossing out "tortious interference with feed" was completely tongue in cheek. I love what you guys are doing here and assume everyone you're aggregating feels the same way. But it occurred to me that with one-stop, subject specific aggregated feeds, listeners might unsubscribe to the individual feeds being aggregated. That could give the podcasters some kind of artificially deflated perception of their number of subscribers. As more of this happens (and I hope more of it will, it's a great way to subscribe to a bunch of podcasts you're virtually assured of being interested in), a show's "subscribers" will be distributed across multiple feeds, only one of which is maintained by the podcaster him/herself. Doesn't make a bit of difference to me, but others might go "dang, I wish I could get an accurate handle on all my subscribers."
Hi Kevin,
Is it possible for you to blawgcast in mp3 as opposed to m4a?
Some of us aren't using iPods, and I myself am using an iRiver H340 (plays OGG!).
Thanks.
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