[FM Discuss] Wordpress stuff

[adam hyde]

I'm also in agreement - as long as we offer alternatives alongside it
and raise the issues. I have changed my position after the interesting
debate...any other votes for / against?

adam





On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:55 +1100, Mr. Snow wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------o)------------------
> > http://clearerchannel.org video distro
> > http://transmission.cc/projects -metadata anyone?
> >
> > phone: 07913 882193
> > new email : mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org
> >
> >
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