Not having a Mac, I don't have good free tools available for QuickTime editing - I even paid for QuickTime Pro, and did not find it particularly transparent or powerful, nor is the compression good - 12 mb for a 90 second file! Nearly 5 for a 30-second file with no audio. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't have time to wrestle with it.

Ergo, I use WMV or Flash (I have Sorenson Squeeze for "free" because I also use it for our corporate website). And there are lots of people like me in their inability to use QuickTime. If Apple wants to encourage video "podcasting" or whatever they want to call it, they will have to be less snobbish about formats. Although Mac owners are a large percentage of current videobloggers, they are not a large percentage of the general computer-using public, many of whom (we hope) will eventually start videoblogging.

In further testing, Andreas' hypothesis seems to be borne out: I added a couple more MOVs to my RSS feed, and those show up in iTunes, but nothing else does.

FWIW, I am rebranding my site as [countries] beginningwithi.com - a choice to be explained in my upcoming newsletter, but probably obvious to anyone who's been following and/or visits my site, however briefly.

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