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April 05, 2005

Recent Submissions: 2005-04-04

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Here's what's been added since the last update. These have been posted to The New, New Podcast Review: Review Queue as well.

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Let's see. Well, I've caught up adding things to the queue, including these. While I'm on the subject, I changed the queue to use OPML and the activeRenderer APIs to display the list. It's the same organization that I use for the reviewed podcast list, so moving stuff from one to the other will be a lot easier. It also means that the "done" reviews in the queue are gone, but they're (almost) all in the reviewed list (I'm missing a few of the 3.5 star reviews still) and they were mostly cluttering up the queue anyway. Doing this led me to question the OPML architecture that I'm using for these. I'm putting html-escaped tags in the "text" attributes of the <outline> tags, which makes them display as links, which is pretty nice. However, it also means that the OPML is all but unreadable by humans, and I suspect that many apps that would read it probably don't like it much. So I'm thinking about changing that. To do so I'd have to have 2 <outline>s per submission - 1 for the site and 1 for the feed. If anyone has thoughts on this, please feel free to leave a comment.

As I noted above I'm still digging out of the search log backlog, but I don't feel a lot of urgency for that. I'm trying to settle into a more regular schedule between this and my other writing; we'll see how that goes.

Have a great week!

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Posted by cori at 12:12 AM

March 29, 2005

Recent submissions: 2005-03-28

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Here's what's been added since the last update (a month ago). These will be posted to The New, New Podcast Review: Review Queue as well, but not for a bit - I'm revamping the mechnism for the queue so that it's easier to maintain.

My apologies to all of you that have submitted podcasts but haven't heard back from me - obviously there are too many for me to respond individually this time. If you read this and think I missed you, please contact me.

In addition, several podcasts have dropped off the list either because they've been discontinued or for some other reason. Podcast King has been moved down the list and Reality Bitchslap Radio has ended, so will be pulled from the queue.

Lastly, you may have noticed a new tag on the Teach42 podcast review, named "I watch". I've added this to the list that previously consisted of "I subscribe" and "I do not subscribe". I determined that those 2 listings were too limiting, because sometimes I'm not interested in a particular subject matter enough to listen to every episode but liked the podcast enough to listen again. In those cases I subscribe to the text posts about the podcasts and watch that feed. If I see content that I think I'll find interesting then I'll listen to that episode. That behavior is represented by the "I watch" tag.

Have a great week!

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Posted by cori at 12:01 AM

February 27, 2005

Recent submissions: 2005-02-27

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As you might note from the title of this post, I've completely given up on the illusion that these updates are going to be weekly events, or even that they will appear on a predictable or even regular schedule. As I've mentioned before, life gets in the way, but more on that later....

Here's what's been added since the last update. These will be posted to The New, New Podcast Review: Review Queue as well.

So...life gets in the way indeed. Between a death in my wife's family and too much work to do at both my jobs I have had next to zero time even to spend with my family, let alone to do the listening and due diligence that I need to in order to write a good review. Therefore none have been written.... Also, if I somehow missed your submission to the queue this time around, please email me again - I'm sure it just got lost in the shuffle. Also, if I add your submitted podcast to the incorrect segment of my queue, please let me know. I don't pick from each side of the queue evenly - there are far more talk podcasts than music ones, so I'll usually do a few talkcast reviews and then a musiccast review. If I have you miscategorized I'll end up shuffling the queue just before I start writing; knowing ahead of time helps me out.

An another, unrelated subject, it looks like Ted Gilchrist of the Robot Books Botcast Network has picked up The New, New Podcast Review for a rebotcast. I'm tremendously flattered to be included amongst the other worthy rebotcasts (take a look at the list in opml or in html) and since I'm not doing a podcast of the reviews I think this is a great service. In fact, I'd be interested in the stats from the feed, since it's a feedburner feed. Thanks to Dan Klass for alerting me to it. It brings up a couple of very interesting questions, though (read on for a lengthy and somewhat involved discussion, if you're so inclined).

Thanks for your continued patience and patronage.

Have a great week!

Here are the questions / potential problems that I see with the rebotcast under the Creative Commons licenses.
The creative commons license that I use to offer the content that the rebotcast is created from is the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 1.0 Creative Commons Deed. There are 2 issues with this and the rebotcast that I can see:


  1. is the attribution attached to the rebotcast sufficient to satisfy the attribution clause? There's a momentary mention of a partial URL in the text of the rebotcast which might be considered attribution. Also, some of the meta-data in the feedburner feed points back to me, so that also might be attribution. That's enough for me, but I wonder if that will be so for everyone.
  2. The more serious (to my mind) issue with the rebotcast is not the attribution clause, but rather the Non-commercial and ShareAlike clauses. The feed for the rebotcast is provided under the Attribution 2.0 Creative Commons Deed, which states:
    You are free:
    ...
    * to make commercial use of the work

    and does not state:
    Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
    .
    Again, not currently a big problem for me personally (although I could see where it might become one), but I can definitely see where some content providers would be seriously displeased with the fact that someone could come along and grab a rebotcast of their content and both refuse to share it and make money from it without compensating the original creator. I think this part is problematic at best, and a violation of the Creative Commons license at worst.

To be perfectly clear, I don't have a problem with my content being repurposed and repackaged. If I did, I wouldn't be offering it under the CC license as I am. I am satisfied with the level of attribution offered by Robot Books' current use of my work, but am less sure of the licensing of that derivative work. Ted, if you're reading (or listening?) to this, please contact me to discuss further (kinrowan at podcastreviews dot net).

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Posted by cori at 11:47 PM

February 14, 2005

This week's submissions: 2005-02-14

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Here's what's been added this week. These will be posted to The New, New Podcast Review: Review Queue as well.

Sorry I'm late - life gets in the way, you know....

Have a great week!

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Posted by cori at 11:53 PM

February 04, 2005

This week's submissions: 2005-02-04

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Here's what's been added this week. These will be posted to The New, New Podcast Review: Review Queue as well.

Oops, forgot a couple....

Have a great week!

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Posted by cori at 05:49 AM

January 28, 2005

The last 2 week's submissions: 2005-01-28

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Here's what's been added over the last 2 weeks. These will be posted to The New, New Podcast Review: Review Queue as well.

Other Announcements

2 weeks' worth of submissions. Things around here have been crazy-busy as I refresh my algebra and biology knowledge to help my wife with her clsses this semester, sorry for the total dearth of reviews this week. I've got several mentally written, just not in bits and bytes yet. I'm also behind on updating the queue, the reviewed opml file and The New, New Podcast Review Highly Rated GigaDial channel. Basically all of the administration tasks have gone out the window as well....

I've been using iPodder 2.0beta1 for the last few days - I really like a lot of the features the team has added, but they missed a couple that I was desperately hoping for. My comments on it here.

Finally, a small plug. Some of the guys at Emayhem Radio Podcast have started a podcast hosting company. I don't typically link to other sites aside from in a review or the like, but what Dave and friends are doing at libsyn.org may be really helpful for some bandwidth-challenged podcasters. Check it out. (disclosure: the offer of an affiliate arrangement was on the table, but I refused, so I'm not on their payroll.)

Have a great week!

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Posted by cori at 09:58 PM

January 16, 2005

This Week's Submissions - 2005-01-16

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Here's what's been added this week. These will be posted to The New, New Podcast Review: Review Queue as well.

Other Announcements

This week's submissions list is not only late, but it's lacking in the entries from the search log. I just want to get it out before I fall asleep!

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Posted by cori at 11:21 PM

January 10, 2005

Last (2) week's submissions: 2005-01-10

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Since I was on vacation week before last I missed the Friday update, so here's what's been added the last 2 weeks. These haven't been posted to The New, New Podcast Review: Review Queue yet, but will be today. (added)