« Little Nemo in Slumberland | Main | Business Week on Generation @ » Podcast tussle (or hustle?)Another edit tussle at Wikipedia, this time over the history of podcasting. Adam Curry furtively removed a reference to Kevin Marks' role in podcasting's development, but as Kevin notes, he left an audit trail. Curry's site is down. Daniel Terdiman blogs about the fracas at news.com, saying Curry's been "podbusted." Curry says he "wasn't doing anything evil or posting that I had 'done it all. Merely participating in the process of Wikipedia to the best of my knowledge. Apparently that's not cool if you were a part of history." Depends on the changes you make... but we all know that none of these technologies can be credited to any one person, and the guy who does it first isn't necessarily the guy who does it best. I don't think encapsulation of MP3 in RSS and the additional scripts that allow you to move podcasts automatically into your iTunes or iPod, wonderful as these breakthroughs have been, are the real story, anyway. You can find plenty of "podcasts" online that are really just mp3 files posted without encapsulation. The real news is that podcasting inspired broader understanding of the grassroots media potential of the Internet. (Thanks and a tip o' the hat to Ewan.) jon posted this at 12:12 PM |
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it's www.curry.com
Posted by: Shelley | December 3, 2005 7:10 PM
Right - it works with our without the www - it's just that at the time I tried to look, it wouldn't serve a page. It could be that the site was just slammed and the server was overwhelmed...it's working now.
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | December 4, 2005 4:26 AM