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November 4, 2005

Liz Phair, Where's Your RSS Feed?

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Posted by Alex Williams

Liz --I'm heart broken. Read the comments. No RSS to be found with your podcasts. I look and I look, but it's not there, a missing icon, a sign in orange and white. I subscribed to your podcast in iTunes. But that's not the same. That's a different world. Popular, yes, but so many other spaces to reach. I mean, in Yahoo!'s podcast directory you're there but I can't subscribe to your show. No one can. Yahoo! is even confused. Here's their message:


Hmmm. We didn't find any series like "liz phair", but we did find some episodes!

You're not even number one on the Yahoo! list. I can listen to you through their flash player or download your show. But subscribe I can not do. Add that RSS feed and a door will open to a place on the web where people can find you, susbcribe and follow your journey, meeting the people, hearing your laugh and the sounds of a band on the road. You could even try BitTorrent so handy for subsribing to all those music videos I watched tonight on your web site.

Liz, people are asking for the feed. I see you'll be in Portland at the Crystal Ballroom on Nov. 13. I'd be happy to bring all my geek buddies on by and show you and your band how easy RSS can be. We can do a podcast. We'll show you the power of that little orange and white icon. Subscribers are waiting. The nice thing is, they won't be disappointed. You have an entertaining show. It's fresh, from out on the road.

Always glad to help,

Alex.
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1. Mark Woodman on November 5, 2005 2:04 AM writes...

Alex: Amen!

Liz: Hear hear. Feed your fans, pun intended.

Alex: Might want to remove your phone number from the post.

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2. SwarmTV on November 14, 2005 3:13 AM writes...

This is great !!

I love the sound of podcasts in the morning.

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3. Dave on November 14, 2005 12:28 PM writes...

http://lizphair.com/podcast.xml - I've been subscribed to it via iPodderX since the beginning. If you looked at her website it is easy to find, under the first place I looked - "Extras". Your problem is using those bad directories, dude. Why exactly do you think not being listed in Yahoo's directory means it doesn't exist? That's kooky talk.

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4. Alex Williams on November 14, 2005 5:56 PM writes...

Dave -- The feed is buried but I did find it in the extras section of the site. I looked and looked but did not see it there until now. Thanks for the heads up. Mea Culpa. I would like to see the feed on the front page of the site. Other folks had trouble finding the feed, too. But, glad to see it is there.

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More and more folks are dabbling in podcasting: Singer/songwriter Liz Phair has three podcasts on her official Web site. Not everyone is happy with Phair's 'casts... [Read More]

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