If you find your podcast being listed on Creative’s new Zencast site, I would consider writing them an angry e-mail now as they are basically hijacking your feed: people who subscribe through the Zencast site get a subscription URL of zencast.com instead of your original feed. This means that they can track your stats, filter or modify your content and that your subscriber’s not only depend on the stability of your server but on the zencast site as well.

Really bad self-introduction to the podcasting scene, Creative. Better quit now before it’s too late. Nobody is buying your ugly players anyway.

Update: It seems as if they have given in and changed the behaviour. Zencast now hands out the original feed as it has to be. Good boy.

Adding to my other plea regarding integrating BitTorrent in iTunes, I’d like to add that I think that BT might make downloads much more robust over unreliable and slow Internet links. I am currently behind a really flaky Internet connection and there is just no way downloading larger files at all. Half way thorugh, downloads get terminated and iTunes tries to start all over again. Continuing http downloads from where they left off might be a way to do it, but this is not very reliable in case the target file changes on the server (I agree this does not happen often but I just did that myself a few times for various reasons and it must be taken into account).

Best thing about BT is that it splits up the file in smaller chunks that are each secured by a checksum. So downloads can be done incrementally and (more or less) securely.

The December 28th edition (MP3, 7,2 MB) of 2600’s Off The Hook radio series was done live from the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress using our DECT phone system and the Internet-based dial-out feature. It’s a one hour show. The first part focuses on the event itself, the rest is about other topics.