Podshow draws Fire from Podcasters/Bloggers
With the paint not even dry on the shiney new Podshow+ website, bloggers such as Dave Winer and Todd Cochrane are talking about how the new podshow is caching and rewriting the users RSS files. The by-product of this caching/rewriting is that the original copyrights are removed. Not a good thing. My listing still shows my own RSS feed which hasn’t been polled at all this month, I’m not sure what the issue is.
I understand the technical reasons why podshow wants to cache the rss files within the system, I don’t see why they are making them available outside the system.
In general I’m a bit underwhelmed with the new podshow system. I haven’t played with the functionality yet, but in general the system is dead slow and is practically invisble to any one who doesn’t use AJAX (good luck with the search engines). There’s nothing that’ll kill a site more than a hundred AJAX calls on the front page.
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My personal opinion is one of confusion. There is so much going on with the new podshow site, I don’t even know where to begin. I’ve created show sites for my podcasts, created a friends list or entourage for some reason. I really don’t know what the heck the point is to any of it. Please don’t tell me I’m too old to understand these fancy new “Social Networking” sites because that would be very depressing.
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