Idiocy (to the original writer (Score 1)

(not that he'll read/understand this, but it makes me feel better. I was directed here when I found that my fave podcast finding site was down.) Just so you realize, your article in regards to what http://www.podkey.com/ is a bit on the slanderous side. The tone of your article is as though the owner had done something malicious. You state that he had "jacked" your podcast when in fact in the next breath you state that "the listener experience was no different than if Yahoo's entry carried my show's official RSS feed URL" As a publisher on the web, you are also probably *very* aware of the difficulties of establishing and maintaining a prominent position on a search engine. Podkey, when it was in it's previous incarnation (which due to your misguided activism is now down for the time being) was a very useful PodCast search engine that I regularly used in conjunction with my iTunes to update my favorite feeds. I just read your rant which pointed out that a) his site was reputable and well-used enough to have a high listing on the Yahoo search engine and b) that people who searched for your podcast got your podcast. What blows my mind is that you then got angry and incensed about a world of "could be's" You state that "He could easily, for instance, attach advertising clips to accompany my show -- keeping any revenue he generated from these ads. In such a situation, my listeners might not even know these ads were not a legitimate part of the programming. Alternately, the podkeyword.com guy might at some point demand payment from me to keep his URL pointing to my show. With two minutes work, he could easily point his feed to the "Kobe Beef Show" (yes, there is such a thing),and all my Yahoo listeners would be lost." Seriously...that's like blasting Google for the potential to send people to the wrong place or for saying "TAKE THE COPS GUNS AWAY! THEIR BULLETS COULD KILL ME!" It's a podcast search engine. It gets people like me (well, like me until you fucked it up) to the podcasts that they want to hear. Just as Google gets you to the sites you search for his podcast search/index engine gets you to the podcast search/index engine gets you to the podcasts you want. What about this helpful service is so nefarious? It's a search engine, not a communist plot. Reconsider what this is, retract your alarmist statements, apologize, let that guy(s?) continue to send you an audience (remember what happened when iTunes pulled your feed listing? you did this one voluntarily!! what the fuck are you thinking?) and most of all, let my most useful non-agenda podcast search engine get back to searching podcasts instead of spending money on lawyers and litigation and public statements simply because you don't get that they perform a valuable public service. Sincerely podcastless