WyethDigital
May 7th, 2007, 10:52 PM
Okay, so I think I'm cranky tonight. Anyway, we just got an email from www.Pod-Planet.com that said a a fan had added us to their directory, and all we had to do was create a free account to log in and claim our feed. Oh, and add a Pod-Planet button to our website. Anyone else get one of those emails?
Anyway, as I said, I'm cranky tonight, and I don't much like being told to sign up to claim my feed. I don't care if your these guys are Odeo, PCA, or whoever. The feed is ours, and it's not a directory's place to make me register to claim something that already belongs to me. So I went to the site to see if they had a blog to comment on, and to see our show is presented.
My first impression was not a good one. Aside from a really ugly site design, there is no search box. Just a large list of categories. Once in a category, you can sort it by a pull down menu on the right, but still no searching of the category. Once I found our page, I was struck by how familiar the layout was. Then it hit me: Except for the color scheme, the podcast page's layout is exactly the same as the Yahoo! Podcast Directory's! If you have a browser capable of tabs, check these links out side-by-side! Except for Yahoo not displaying our cover art, and slight difference in color, they're exactly the same!
Pod-Planet (http://www.pod-planet.com/series_detail.asp?sid=26072)
Yahoo (podcastAlley loses some of the address, so you'll need to copy/paste it:
http://podcasts.yahoo.com/series?=e6fe6e092b04217b69d491824d9f0f90
I think I'll leave it on they're site (exposure is exposure), but I'm not wasting my time setting up an account just to claim what is ours already!
Eric
Anyway, as I said, I'm cranky tonight, and I don't much like being told to sign up to claim my feed. I don't care if your these guys are Odeo, PCA, or whoever. The feed is ours, and it's not a directory's place to make me register to claim something that already belongs to me. So I went to the site to see if they had a blog to comment on, and to see our show is presented.
My first impression was not a good one. Aside from a really ugly site design, there is no search box. Just a large list of categories. Once in a category, you can sort it by a pull down menu on the right, but still no searching of the category. Once I found our page, I was struck by how familiar the layout was. Then it hit me: Except for the color scheme, the podcast page's layout is exactly the same as the Yahoo! Podcast Directory's! If you have a browser capable of tabs, check these links out side-by-side! Except for Yahoo not displaying our cover art, and slight difference in color, they're exactly the same!
Pod-Planet (http://www.pod-planet.com/series_detail.asp?sid=26072)
Yahoo (podcastAlley loses some of the address, so you'll need to copy/paste it:
http://podcasts.yahoo.com/series?=e6fe6e092b04217b69d491824d9f0f90
I think I'll leave it on they're site (exposure is exposure), but I'm not wasting my time setting up an account just to claim what is ours already!
Eric