Leo Laporte dumping Feedburner for his mistake.

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www.twit.tv

I thought the podcasting community should know about this.

Basically, Leo turned on Feedburner Awareness, slammed Feedburner for "violating his privacy", and is not forcing all of his listeners to switch to a new feed. That is fine, except that Feedburner did nothing wrong, and it was his mistake.

I commend Feedburner for trying to implement a true ratings system for podcasting, and building towards an open standard to do so.

Now with the #1 rated podcast having a temper tantrum over nothing, I wonder how this will affect feedburner's push to give us numbers that, in future, can be verifiable for advertisers, ratings, etc...

Leo looks like a crying baby in this situation, and might hurt the rest of the podcasting community because of this. Hopefully not.

[ExtraLife]

he already addressed it in his latest post.

http://thisweekintech.com/node/3924?PHPSESSID=476d9971b0c2749547509dcdf1729dfa

[jimk]

Wow...a half-assed apology, really. leo's clearly embarassed that he did this himself without paying attention then publically slammed someone over it.

But hey...like we're all not dicks at some point or another? Thsi was Leo's "I;m a dick" week. :)

[ShaneVsEvil]

Oh jeez and I thought it was weird after hearing just the first part of the story...