sam ruby again: "I want to increase the chances that the following information finds its way into Apple. And Disney. But mostly Apple."
well, while i am already e-mailing with apple itunes music store support people about similar issues anyway, why not giving mr ruby a link? here it is: insensititve itunes.
and luckily mark pilgrim's popping in with yet another excellent comment: "iTunes is to podcasting as Internet Explorer is to HTML. RSS interoperability, at least as far as podcasting goes, now means 'works with iTunes.'"
mail to apple.
"Dear Madams and Sirs.
We wonder why recent updates on our podcast server are not reflected in ITMS -- neither instantly, nor after more than one day.
If you compare our podcast's appearance in ITMS with our podcast website or the corresponding feed you might notice the differences.
Thus, we (believing to speak in the names of many other podcast publishers out there trying to embrace what Apple offers) kindly aks for some advice regarding the following questions.
a) What is the update schedule of the ITMS podcast cache? When are podcasts updated?
b) Will meta information (like art work etc.) be updated, too?
c) What happens when a podcast does not conform to Apple's spec after initial publishing? How will I notice? How can I debug?
d) Why can anyone publish a feed, even if she or he obviously is not the maintainer, nor producer, nor affiliate?
e) Do you plan to answer these and similar questions publicly in an updated version of your podcast specs (or any other prominent place)?
We very much appreciate Apple's efforts to support podcasting and would like to encourage ITMS as open and preferably free platform for the whole podcasting community.
Thus, we think it will be worthwhile as well as necessary to communicate these and similar issues publicly."
if (itunes == podcasting + bit_torrent) {
delete bit_torrent.piracy;
bit_torrent.popularity++;
bandwidth++;
}hey, how ’bout such a mini bike?
the recent reincarnation of java's plugin placeholder is not only looking very ugly (actually, the spikes literally hurt one's eyes); it also behaves like a dimwit.
two interesting topics currently at sam ruby's blog: podcasting spec questions (cause there are some contradictions in apple's podcast pdf).
and in intertwingly comments: "Sam Ruby identifies the IP address of every person who comments on his weblog, as you can see by hovering over a name." – which sam replies to: "my experience is that both trolling and spamming were greatly reduced once I implemented this."
i'm so bad: i really like the de:bug podcast...
btw. itunes 4.9 rocks podcast world (in a positive as well as negative way). and the bandwidth problem increases.