On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
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>> No, please don't announce the next one. There should be a RSS feed.
>> But please do announce the feed at regular intervals.
Note, I didn't say announce the feed each release. In fact, I didn't
even say announce the feed in this channel.
>
> You're kidding, right? Instead of an alert for each podcast release which
> says, "Hey, there's something there right now!" you would rather have an
> alert that says, "Hey, check out this RSS feed, which may have nothing on it
> for another three weeks until the next podcast is ready!" ??
No, you use the RSS feed to notify interested parties that a new
podcast is available. You advertise the feed in a general way to get
new users. Those are different things.
>
> I vote with Terry.
Not sure how either of you was thinking but I do think the podcast
author should use RSS.
Michael
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> ~Ethan~
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