A Line Dropped By A Ghost

Ok, as most of you know by now I have been podcasting with Chris, Quinny, Rhys and occassionally Ashley. If you didn’t know that, then goto www.coolshite.net and learn all about it. I am astounded how many people have subscribed and voted for us. We constantly sit around 1 or 2 in the movie category at Podcast Alley, and in the top 20 world wide. We did it as a bit of fun, an extenstion to our Tuesday movie nights. So now we are up to week 19 (this Sunday) and our audience just gets bigger. Hell we are up for a people’s choice award at the Podcast Awards. We even made it into iTunes podcast listing off the bat with no worked needed by me. So what is my gripe…

My Gripe

If you have been listening to podcasts, then you would have heard the name Adam Curry. Adam is considered one of the founders of Podcasting and is very active in the scene. He is a busy man with many things on his plate. He produces three shows I know of and only 2 of them are podcasts. His personal podcast: the daily sourcecode, The new Podfinder cast for iTunes and the radio show for Seious (spelling) Satellite radio in USA. My gripe is with Adam, he won’t read this, or even care. But fuck it, I need to write it down somewhere. Adam is a rude prick and has big blinkers on. I have emailed him promos and standard email and I realise that he more likely than not get shitloads every day, but it doesn’t excuse him not doing a one line reply say thanks for the email, etc. Really, I would be happy if I got an automated response to start with to say my mail has been recieved. Why does this erk me so.. well because I spent a shitload of time on our promo and didn’t even get so much as a thanks for sending it. I basically sent it to a black hole. The stupid thing is, I did another one and send it with the same response, ie NOTHING. Then you start to see faviourtism on Adam’s behalf coming in on his shows with the same promo’s for the same people he has meantion a heap of times. I don’t care that he didn’t play my promo, but no response to people who put some hard hours in is just plain rude, and I know other people that have the same issue. I am going to record another promo (why.. i don’t know) and bag the shit out of Adam and his useless email system and see if that gets some response. I am going to give it to all the “indy” podcasters out there that are also not feeling any love.

So to the Podfather as they call him… ANSWER YOUR FUCKING EMAIL.

Mr Adny is one year older today.

Have a good one.

Early today Apple unleached the biggest DOS attack the internet has ever seen. They cunningly positioned a program update to the itunes that makes it seekout unsuspecting podcast websites and batters them with file request until something breaks, ie the operating system.

The beautiful thing about it was that the podcasting community knew about it in advance, but not the specifics. ie. which sites and when the program was getting released.

Some would call it a brilliant software innovation, but I call it a virus…

And in other news: Our podcast is getting royal downloaded and Hava.nl is happily holding up… suckers!