Podfather Faux Pas
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While Dawn and Drew were in the back room doing lord-knows-what to their poor microphones, the Podshow command crew were recruiting programmers - hamsters from a planet near Mars.
These hamsters had never dealt with Earth-based RSS feeds before, causing nothing but problems when the new Podshow service launched yesterday. Podcasters cried foul, as their feeds were rewritten with new data and namespace elements such as “BloodType,” “BirthWeight,” and “Virgin.” Moreover, every Virgin element was automatically toggled to “yes,” thereby forcing thousands of podcasters to run out and prove the world wrong.
Some podcasters were so enraged, they actually mated with the hamsters themselves! After that, the Copyright rewrite seemed less important than it actually was. The hamsters have since been deported.
Source: PodShow
Domain: VirginPodcaster.com
If you’d like to put words into Adam Curry’s mouth (which is much nicer than putting broccoli in Adam Curry’s ears), here’s your chance. Fill in the blank! We will choose one winner on Monday, who will receive our undying gratitude for their user generated content. Estimated value of this prize: $0.27. Void in Utah.
9 Comment(s)
By HM on Jul 7, 2006 | Reply
i’d put the following words into AC’s mouth: ” Senseo!”
it’s one of the things he’s known for, innit?
By Jacob Stewart on Jul 7, 2006 | Reply
“I’ll give you back your RSS feed for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!”
By doug on Jul 7, 2006 | Reply
IT is fixed… give the guy a break!!
By Drew Olanoff on Jul 7, 2006 | Reply
“You can just call me Godfather now. I’ve earned it”
By jh on Jul 7, 2006 | Reply
Yet another Curryism. “Oops. We didn’t mean to accidentally create thousands of RSS feeds that hijack content from your RSS feeds, make it look like we are the host of your content, and remove your copyright notices. That was purely an accident. Now it’s all back to actually using YOUR feeds.”
Yeah. This guy makes a lot of mistakes like this that could be read as taking advantage of people. Good thing we really know that he has the best interests of all indie casters at heart, right?
By Those Bastards on Jul 7, 2006 | Reply
That’s pretty funny. Where do you he stores Dave Winer’s body?
By Joel Haasnoot on Jul 8, 2006 | Reply
Adam: “I need my spliff for the day… Everything is too dark, and everyone is following me. With my spliff I won’t get pissed at everyone (which coincidentally everybody likes). Oh yeah did you know [burp] This senseo moment sponsored by the Dawn and Drew Show. Where was I?”
By steve garfield on Jul 8, 2006 | Reply
My entry in Chris Pirillo’s “Put words in Adam Curry’s mouth” contest.
http://offonatangent.blogspot......stand.html
By Cat on Jun 29, 2008 | Reply
That’s pretty funny.