Podshow Tin Foil Hat Moment

by Paul Colligan on July 7, 2006

I suggested last night that we should wait until they fix things before we pass judgement – or make too much noise.

I’ve been thinking …

So, you’re launching a Podcast directory.

You have millions in VC and need to make a big splash.

You want lots of inbounds and attention and comments and blog postings from a very passionate “community.”

What do you do? What do you do?

You have a long history of creating controversy to sell papers. You know it works well.

What do you do? What do you do?

Could you / would you commit pretty much the biggest possible sin in the eyes of “the community” (it’s not like the idea of hijacking RSS as bad is a new concept here) and then say something like this:

Pretty tired from the week’s events, but there’s stuff to do and things to patch/fix/glue on PodShow.com. The most obvious being that external feeds should of course link to the original external feed

The RSS they created was crap and not finished. It looked like an offshore hack job – and now they’re gonna “change it” – less than 24 hours later.

Response to the community“, or “part of the plan for some time now?

Tags: podshow, podshow+, hijack rss

  • That was in fact Adam posting the reply.

    Paul
  • Ok, if that is in fact Adam posting the reply, then that's really sad that you would use the death of your own mother as an excuse for what's going on with the podshow feed BS. Mostly cause I highly doubt you had anything to do with the actual programming of that lovely add-in. If it's not Adam posting, then shut the hell up you wanna be idiot. Now, as for the article, post or whatever it is, yeah, it's possible that's exactly what happened, and they did it on purpose, it would be stupid, but possible. Of course I doubt it was unintentional, how do you type that much code accidentally? But someone somewhere had to know that feed jacking would turn off a lot of podcasters. Granted none of the oh I wanna kiss podshow's ass casters will falter, but a lot of the casters that dont worship the mic the Currinator spits on, will no doubt shy away for the time being and wait to see if podshow is even worth it now. I don't know what to think f it personally. I almost joined, but after I read the terms I decided to hold off for a bit and wait for the dust to settle a bit.
  • Sorry to double post, But meant to add this in my original post. Of course it does not look like this week has gone good for curry but it still does not excuse what was done
  • While I am sorry for your loss truly I am I have been there before (not with a mother but other family members as I am sure we all have) What you originally did was wrong, you know it was intentional, and you know it, While your you have had a loss this week it still does not excuse what was done. Now you want to make it look like it was an honest mistake.
  • Adam, my earlier post - before I said anything else - mentioned your loss.

    And, so far, I've been the only one who has mentioned this element.

    Please read that one too.

    Paul
  • Yeah that's right, everything this week has been going exactly as planned. sigh
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