Question for Podcasters / Owning Your Own Feed

Posted by Paul Colligan on Tuesday, March 14, 2006

I’ll make this one short and simple.

Too many Podcasters are hosting their Podcasts on someone else’s domain (and server) and are promoting feeds that aren’t their own. You know what I’m talking about. Too much can go wrong when you rely too much on too many people.

It’s time for Podcasters to take charge of their own content.

I’m about a thousand bucks away from a tool/system that would allow any Podcaster to register a cheap domain (Godaddy is fine) and use that domain for their Podcast Website and RSS feed. Don’t worry – you can host wherever you want and still use Feedburner.

This way, if something goes bad, (hosting, feeds, ad serving, whatever …) you just point YOUR DOMAIN to the new feed (or Website) source – and your listeners don’t have to do a thing.

So, let me know. If this is something you’d use (don’t worry – ain’t gonna charge for it), I’ll spend the rest of the cash and make it happen.

So, is this something you’d use?

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  • http://www.aol.com Fan

    YES!

  • http://www.PortableMediaExpo.com Tim Bourquin

    I’m in

  • Ken

    Paul,

    Can you make the links (like to FeedBurner) open in a separate window? I lose my place when it opens in the same window.

  • http://www.cinesnob.com Steve Williams

    No, I prefer BlogMatrix’s “training wheels.”

  • http://www.colligan.com colligan

    Steve, I’m not quite sure what that means – can you elaborate?

    Paul

  • http://www.tinyscreenfuls.com Josh Bancroft

    Can you elaborate or give an example (without necessary calling out whoever you’re talking about)? I’m not 100% sure I follow you…

    I have my own domain, hosted with 1and1 internet, and I use FeedBurner for my podcast feed. Are you talking about something that would replace feedburner? Or a redirect from my own domain (which I can do easily with .htaccess, but may be beyond the average podcaster)?

    Sounds like an interesting idea, but it doesn’t parse 100% in my mind…

  • http://www.colligan.com colligan

    Josh, you’re already doing what you should be doing. This is a tool for the podcasters who love to be hosted at x.inserthosthere.com and only promote someone else’s service.

    Yes, the .htaccess trick for feedburner is great – I’m doing it at PodcastTools.com.

    P