How To Keep Your Podcast Safe
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If you publish a podcast, you may already know that it could be at risk of being hijacked. Well, MediaBlab has some helpful tips on how to keep your podcast safe from hijackers.
Retain Control of Your Feed
As someone who entered the online world through email publishing, I’m well aware of the importance of maintain control of your subscriber relationship. Handing off your subscribers to a third party, without having a backup plan means potential losing your subscribers. Lose your subscribers and you’ve effectively put yourself out of business. That’s what backup strategies and contingency plans are all about. If you put the control over your RSS feed in the hands of a third party, you have no control over that feed if it goes down, if the company goes out of business or if that company decides to do something you don’t like with your feed.
So what about using a service like FeedBurner to get statistics and manage your feed? I trust the people at FeedBurner. I’ve met a couple of them and chatted with them on the phone. But what if they get bought by someone I don’t trust? Or what if FeedBurner goes out of business? I use FeedBurner for things like statistics, but I still publish my own URL as the source feed. By doing a redirect to FeedBurner, I can still promote a feed I control, while retaining all the advantages of using FeedBurner’s service…
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March 1st, 2007
at 10:08am
i don’t know how to be safe in the mall or i don’t know how to keep my kids safe! i need help!!!!!