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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 February 27, 2005 11:47 PM