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.
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Apple News Now » A comic about the RSS Hi-Jacking
July 7th, 2006
at 10:58am
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Podfather Hijacking at b•o
July 7th, 2006
at 11:09am
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HM
July 7th, 2006
at 12:54pm
i’d put the following words into AC’s mouth: ” Senseo!”
it’s one of the things he’s known for, innit?
Jacob Stewart
July 7th, 2006
at 12:57pm
“I’ll give you back your RSS feed for ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!”
doug
July 7th, 2006
at 1:43pm
IT is fixed… give the guy a break!!
Drew Olanoff
July 7th, 2006
at 2:42pm
“You can just call me Godfather now. I’ve earned it”
jh
July 7th, 2006
at 2:49pm
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?
Those Bastards
July 7th, 2006
at 5:50pm
That’s pretty funny. Where do you he stores Dave Winer’s body?
planet sab
July 7th, 2006
at 5:51pm
digging and tagging functionality than for the user actually being able to get to a certain show within two clicks without needing to call the operator for assistance. And way too much advertising. Latest show April, 25th? Not a good launch, at all.[IMG Adam Curry, the Podfather] I’ll continue to write Steve e-mails, e.g. telling him that video would be cool, transcripts I don’t care about since I am one of the people who acually transfers the content to a mobile device in order to not sit in front of the screen all day…
Hali of Firpine's Personal Log
July 7th, 2006
at 6:06pm
Check this little comic out: [IMG] The long, long caption is the best, though. And, sadly, it’s kind of true. Did you know that PodShow- whether you’ve signed a contract with them or not -will hijack your RSS feed and change the data in it if people subscribe via their new, shitty
CURRY.COM
July 7th, 2006
at 7:14pm
[IMG ]
Joel Haasnoot
July 8th, 2006
at 2:32am
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?”
steve garfield
July 8th, 2006
at 6:36am
My entry in Chris Pirillo’s “Put words in Adam Curry’s mouth” contest.
http://offonatangent.blogspot......stand.html
Steve Garfield's Off On A Tangent: Daily weblog on pop culture and technology.
July 8th, 2006
at 2:28pm
Seek First to Understand [IMG] My entry in Chris Pirillo’s “Put words in Adam Curry’s mouth” contest.Podfather Faux Pas - Chris Pirillo’s original comic about PodShow’s rocky start. CURRY.COM | UnLeash Update - Adam’s response. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Paperback) posted by Steve at 9:38 AM | link
Podcasting News
July 8th, 2006
at 5:02pm
in response to the controversy. “This also resolves the copyright re-writing issues.” “Silly mistake on our part,” blogs Adam Curry. “Interesting presumptions from some folks.” Blaugh calls the incident aPodfather Faux Paus: [IMG blaugh_adam_curry.gif] Some podcasters aren’t laughing off the controversy, though. “As expected, Podshow claimed it was a bug, and fixed it,” said Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane, “but my opinion stands; if it was a bug, it was pretty big
Podfeed.nl, Podfather faux pas
July 9th, 2006
at 3:14am
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Dead2.0 » PodShow relaunches, Earth stops turning
July 9th, 2006
at 11:19am
[...] When they relaunched, they added the ability to pick up other sites’ RSS feeds, but apparently added in a feature by which they effectively claimed them as their own. For a whole 3 days this was big news in lots of places, it inspired a cartoon, but then in just-as-blogworthy fashion, they fixed it with big news and coverage. [...]
Dead2.0
July 9th, 2006
at 6:17pm
When they relaunched, they added the ability to pick up other sites’ RSS feeds, but apparently added in a feature by which they effectively claimed them as their own. For a whole 3 days this was big news in lots of places, it inspired a cartoon, but then in just-as-blogworthy fashion, they fixed it with big news and coverage. The site offers a ‘network’ of podcasts. I went to the site today (for the first time) and from the home page along I am ready to predict the slow meandering
Podcasting News » PodShow Updates Site to Eliminate Podcast Hijacking; It Was a Silly Mistake, Says Adam Curry
September 12th, 2006
at 7:42pm
[...] Blaugh calls the incident a Podfather Faux Paus: [...]
The Dawn and Drew Show! - Podcasting from Wisconsin - a PodShow from D&D Productions
February 3rd, 2007
at 9:13pm
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Cat
June 29th, 2008
at 4:02am
That’s pretty funny.
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