A discussion about corporate and business podcasting with tips and guidelines

The name is Alex. And thanks for reading and commenting about the post. I'll add fixing the lack of my name on the posts to my long list of improvements to make.

The reason for not using the feedburner address is simple - I'd rather not have my feeds listed with a domain under someone else's control. It may be great now, but who knows how things will change as podcasting commercializes. That small bit of real estate in people's RSS reader or iTunes is nice to have.

I have seen to many people complain that they want to change their feed addresses and can't because they've given out a feed address and now they have to ask their listeners to change the feed address - a great way to see all your hard work of building a listener base wiped out.

As for my passion for short feed URLs, it comes from running a directory and seeing podcast feeds that are so long the owners can't even type them correctly when submitting them.

Welcome to podcasting :)

Best,

Alex
chief cook, bottle washer, programmer, help you fix your podcast, podcast news reporter, fan of short urls, etc, etc.
www.digitalpodcast.com

Hey Alex,

Thanks for stopping by. Since I've started writing Biz Podcasting full time, it's become startlingly clear to me that many people don't bother to put their names on their blogs or articles.

I think that Feedburner has been around long enough that they've proven themselves. They're reliable, mature, and understand podcasting. I don't share your fears that going through them will leave you high and dry. Further, your argument about having to change feed addresses is precisely one of the strengths of Feedburner. Give out your FB address once and do whatever the heck you'd like on the inside. No chance of wiping your listener base out and, with the promotional and statistical tools that FB provides, every chance to grow your listeners base exponentially.

I do agree that long urls are hard to type into directories, yes. However, as I said in my original post - people don't generally give out their feed url. They give out their base url which contains links to the feeds. People don't type urls into their podcatchers. They cut and paste them.

Thanks for the thoughts and thanks for the welcome. Not sure what the welcome is for since I've been podcasting for over a year, but I'll take it :)