iTunes: Boing Boing tv is a "best video podcast of 2007"
Whoah, this is super cool and the entire Boing Boing tv team is very grateful! iTunes is featuring Boing Boing tv as one of the top video podcasts of 2007: Link. Chris Albrecht of NewTeeVee wrote more about all the selected podcasts: Link. (Thanks, Pete Alcorn!).
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latest episodes
Yippee.
I tried to find the podcast on iTunes and came up with bupkis.
Must not have been looking too hard.
'Your request could not be completed.
The item you've requested in not currently available in the Ireland Store.'
Gee thanks apple, more unnecessary customer and prosumer screwing market segmentation. Maybe one day they can make it so that I can't even subscribe to a podcast not produced in my region! Although I congratulate you guys, I think we need to be very careful praising apple for any actions they've taken in relation to podcasting. While the inclusion of podcasts in the apple store did give an initial boost in listenership / viewership; apple also imposed a wholly unnecessary series of burdens on content creators (e.g.: need for a credit card to create the itunes account required for upload, special xml in the podcast feed etc), and have benefited handsomely from the free content aggregated by iTunes. Additionally, the promotion of certain (primarily mainstream created) podcasts on the podcast store frontpage, has done quite a bit to stifle the creation of independent podcasts, and dilute the community nature of podcasting.
Congratulations! Well deserved. I subscribed on Miro the day you started and it is one of my favorite podcasts.
Could you please post a mirror or screen capture since the link goes to the iTunes site that insists I install their Crappleware to view it.
actually, alex albrecht is the 'diggnation' guy...chris albrecht is a tech journo.....
Love iTunes? Hate iTunes?
@Gareth Stack, are you saying you are unable to subscribe to BBtv through iTunes because you're using the Ireland Store?
@scooterzz, I win top 5 stupid speed errors of 2007 award! Gah, I know Alex Albrecht, and am familiar with Chris' work, and I goofed!
Does anyone still use iTunes? Blah.
@Xeni No I can subscribe to the show, but the best of 2007 are inaccessible - as is the attendant publicity to the 'winners' - here and probably in other territories.
Gareth -
For all of your complaints about ITMS and Apple (a for-profit company that manages to do some fairly community-enriching stuff), I'm struck by how hostile your BBC is, when it is a not-for-profit corporation. Discriminating based on country, horrendously ugly copy protection, in spite of ALL its content being the result of public monies, hostility to Mac and Linux, and the rest.
Fix that for us, won't you? Since you're funding it, after all.
It's a damned sad day when an American for-profit company somehow manages to do better than a British non-profit (not snarky, really, I'm disappointed how poorly BBC is managing the tech currents).
Xeni, Cory, et al. -
How does hosting a program on ITMS work? Can you tell Apple to make it region-free, essentially? Is this the default? If the IP holders (you) give permission for your show to be available everywhere, then ITMS should make it available everywhere, right?
If this isn't an administrative problem, and you can't make your program available in the way you'd like, that'd be an interesting boingboing article. Or, alternately, covering the steps it took you to manage the waters would be interesting as well. :)
@Trai Dep... There aren't too many non antagonistic ways of saying this, so I'll merely point out that as an Irish citizen I haven't had a say (or still less a pay) in British televisual (sic) decisions for 86 years. Totally agree with you about the BBC's misuse of licence fees by the way, as do most Brits (once again, excluding Ireland). Recent figures indicate usage figures in the low tens of thousands for the BBC's new streaming slothware.