[FM Discuss] Wordpress stuff

Mr. Snow mr.snow at laudanum.net
Tue Mar 4 14:55:43 PST 2008


hi there .

yes it raised a few issues and hackles quite quickly .

my feeling at the moment is still that we should introduce ideas  
about how to perfect integration with the itunes store . not only  
because it should increase eyeballs there, but because it is likely  
other podcast aggregators will read itunes:namespace as well .




On 05/03/2008, at 2:03 AM, Mick Fuzz wrote:

>
> --- adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> So where did we get with this very interesting
>> discussion...Mr
>> Snow...what are your thoughts on it at the moment?
>
>
> I think this is a good issue to decide this on. If you
> put a video feed created by FLOSS tools into iTunes
> then you are likely to get a lot of views for your
> video files. Undercurrents.org are looking at about
> 300,000 per episode for their recent ones.
>
> If you don't then you are looking at using YouTube to
> get a similar amount of viewers.
>
> So  you could say it's one way of biting the biscuit
> without getting burned.
>
> But what we are really talking about here is the
> support for the itunes tags in the feed specification.
>
>
> And actually the alternative Media RSS is maintained
> by Yahoo, which may soon be owned by MS, so that
> alternative isn't looking very good either. Unless you
> want to extend an Atom spec, which is what we are
> doing for the Transmission standard.
>
> I'm working on a wiki page about similar issues here.
>
> http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/ 
> What_video_publishing_sites_need_to_create_in_terms_of_feed
>
> Any feedback is gratefully received, I know it's
> looking a bit barren at the moment. But there is a lot
> of information if you follow the links.
>
> All the best,
> Mick.
>
>
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