I know, yet another complaint about iTunes by Bob. This is actually a complaint about web site people and iTunes.
If you have a podcast, do not just link to the iTunes listing for your podcast. This is no help except to people who have installed iTunes. This is worse than designing your web site specifically for Internet Explorer. I keep iTunes off of my computer because it is a waste of space and resources, but if I click on your phobos.apple.com link and don’t have iTunes then I am stuck.
Include an iTunes link, include a Yahoo podcasts linke, include any proprietary link you want, but please include a xml link so I canstick your podcast into my reader.
The do have an iTunes link for our church podcast. It took a while since I didn’t want to register for iTunes so I asked another employee at the church who was registered with iTunes to add in the link for us. In addition to this, we have added FeedBurner to make it easier for people to select from the different available services.
Right now I am working on a good descriptor link so newbies better understand how to use the podcast audio.
I ranted about this on my blog earlier this year. There were a couple of podcast I ran across but couldn’t subscribe to because they didn’t include a link for Juice to use.
http://dljordaneku.blogspot.com/2006/02/podcast-rant.html
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