Hey there Folks. John here with a couple of itmes to draw your attention to:
1) RSS Feed
As some of you may have noticed, the RSS feed of The Movie Blog has gone from carrying the full posts to just the title and an excerpt. I didn’t like doing this at all, but I really had no choice. Here is the form letter I sent out to people who emailed me about it:
If you’re getting this you wrote asking about the RSS feeds. As was explained in the November 2nd episode of The Audio Edition (At time index 39:45), far too many sites are using the RSS feed of The Movie Blog to steal it’s content and publish it without citing on their own sites. At last count over 30 sites were doing this. I don’t mind people using my excerpts for their posts and crediting me, but they were just republishing my entire articles and passing it off as their own.
This is not only an unfair practice, but it also harms The Movie Blog’s rankings on search engines like Yahoo and Google. This could eventually cost us thousands of new readers every single day. People were now searching for something on Google, and google would point them to one of my articles, but the article was on another site. Not to over enphasise things, but this could ultimatly ruin The Movie Blog. We tired to request these sites stop their actions, but not one of them stopped. We had no choice but to pull down the full feeds and only include excerpts.
We are sorry for any inconvenience to you the reader, we like reading our feeds too… but we honestly had no choice. Any further suggestions are welcome.
2) Podcast Feed
Just a reminded that there is a new podcast feed for The Audio Edition. Much better feed. Make sure to update your iTunes (or other podcasting service) with the new feed. The new feed is here. (right click the link and select “copy link location”)
3) John Campea’s New Podcast
After several technical problems over the weekend, things are FINALLY ready to go for my new podcast over on my personal blog. This new podcast doesn’t talk about movies, but rather world, political and tech news. The show WAS going to be called “The Gospel According to John”, but has been changed to “Point of View”. The new show launches later today over at my personal blog.
And don’t forget, Point of View isn’t the first podcast birthed from The Audio Edtion. Doug Nagy has his “Nagical Radio” podcast weekly over at his blog.
That’s it for now, have a great day guys
