My reply to Michael (sent privately earlier, hadn't realized he'd
posted in the group as well):
Michael -
I actually met for a few hours with the iTunes podcasting team this
week in San Francisco, and better rendering of show notes, links to
items, comments, etc. was high on my list of requests. As soon as I
have an ETA, I'll be sure to let you know.
For what it's worth, I think Apple's turning a corner with respect to
the communication on this (podcast support, that is). They recognize
that their engagement with the community has been lacking, and are
working hard to fix it. One early indicator of this is that Apple is
now supporting ping notifications of podcast updates - something that
they had never done before (despite requests from us and no doubt many
others). They're now a default ping recipient for all FeedBurner ping
updates.
There's more coming, which we'll work hard to communicate proactively
as we're able. I also anticipate that Apple will do a much better job
of communicating its priorities and developments.
Keep in touch, and let me know how I can help.
Regards,
Rick
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Howdy Rick, My compliments on the new features Feedflare.
http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/001543.html
This is an open letter to ask if you and the guys at feedburner would
be willing to fix itunes.
What specifically I mean is itunes supports plain-text ONLY, no
formating, no links in their silly comments box. They do in fact NOT
have any links anywhere back to the permalink page on which the
podcast or video was posted.
I find this a slap in the face of podcasters and vloggers everywhere
as podcasting and video blogging have the opportunity to be much more
than simply a broadcast medium. In fact many would say being able to
comment is an essential feature of videoblogging and podcasting.
Which is why EVERY OTHER RSS READER HAS CLICKABLE PERMALINKS. Sorry,
I just wanted to be clear about that.
Anyway, my friends try to console me in my constant bitching that
it's not that apple is evil, but just that they didn't have a good
mechanism for displaying rich text, that they're sort of clueless.
And so I've waited. However it's been to long, I would have thought
they'd fix it by now in one of the many version updates that have
come out. In fact apple has now put in links back to the homepage of
the blog for every post, right near the podcast title, but STILL no
link directly to the permalink page... I'm beginning to find it
impossible that they're that clueless and am beginning to wonder if
it's not part of some diabolical plan to either undermine the success
of podcasting, or just to see if they can't piss absolutely everyone
in this community off. Well, I'm pissed off, but I don't get made I
find solutions... and maybe get even. ;)
So how can you help?
Simple... you should, might, could, add in plain-text permalinks into
a feed at the end of the description field.. it would then be
readable and copyable right from itunes info box. Easy for you to
implement in a feed and much better than thousands of users having to
go to a blog and browse around and look for the right post so they
can read or comment upon it. Example below.
Comment!
http://permalink.com/blog/post.html
Well, you get the idea, i just wish apple did. Of course you could
add your other features of your FeedFlair like emailing and delicious
too. Just as long as your urls aren't to long. And of course you have
control of that too.
How to do this...
1) Well the easiest way would just be to put a switch into the feed
and just allow people to turn it on.. call it the fix itunes
switch. I'm sure it'll not only get peoples attention, but get
blogged about a bit too. ;)
2) Option two, detect feed calls from itunes... would work great, but
requires some spryness on your part... then just put in the permalink
at the very end of the post no matter what. Won't get you much
publicity though, just help out the community.
I suggest option one, you might put have an optional checkbox put in
where people can add the additional feature as follows.
Tell apple to fix these permalinks in iTunes!
http://feedburner.com/form/to/email/apple/support
Be as nice or evil about it as you like, but if nothing else all the
attention and publicity you'll get out of it will help you, help your
customers and give apple a wake up call so maybe
