WordPress is the platform of choice for most podcasters running their own sites. One of the reasons for this is that it offers the most support and available plugins make it a powerful solution. In my opinion the most essential plugin for the podcaster is PodPress. However it appears that PodPress has vanished and is now a parked page at GoDaddy.
I just could not believe that such a successful plugin could be abandoned so I did some digging and it appears that the developer Dan Kuykendall went to Disneyland 18 days ago and forgot something rather important. It would appear that on the 26th of April their domain name expired. Do’h…
That is the conclusion that I have come to, anyone else know any different?
If however, the developer has jumped ship and abandoned development then I will be very surprised. If for nothing else than the fact that no one else has taken over the project.
One good thing until everything is sorted out is that it appears the download links are still operational from the WordPress extend site.
I certainly hope that PodPress is here to stay, I know I value the project as one of the best podcasting tools out there. Seriously though, GoDaddy start sending out emails at least 6 months before your domains expire, just don’t ignore them. Or change your renewal details to automatic renewal. But then it seems that it doesn’t matter how many reminders some people get.
Thanks Dan for your hard work and I trust that you have just forgotten to renew your domain.
UPDATE: I am not sure what the go is, but during the course of writing this post MightySeek is back up and “un-parked”. I also noticed that the whois has changed and the domain that expired in 2008 is now 2009. So perhaps suspicions were in fact true and we had a domain glitch eh? Yey, is all I can say.
RSS Busted!
April 15, 2006 — The RoosterBit of an update on the Podcast.
Well I got some great news last night, the domain resolved for the Global Geek Podcast! Woot. So now everybody this is important: the URL for the podcast is now:
http://www.globalgeekpodcast.com
So please update that.
On a slightly different note, like anything I seem to do there was no silver lining to this story. Rather there was a grimy smudged edge. It would appear that the RSS feed for the podcast and the blog page is BUSTED! Yup you got it the feed is broke. By that I mean that it will not work. The reason being that the feed will not validate. So when you sophisticated people that use Firefox go there you will not see an RSS feed detect in the address bar! Damn it. Looking at the report on the feed it looks like all that is missing from it is a < symbol at a critical point, but hey I don’t know RSS code so what do I know. That’s what I an paying Libsyn for!
Yes I am bummed about it, a fairly crucial piece to podcasting and subscription is that the feed works! But I have emailed Libsyn with the problem and I will let you know when it is all up and running.
Looking at it I do not think it has anything to do with the domain name resolving because I tested the previous RSS feed; before the change and I got the same error. So anyone wanting to get a domain name – fear not!
I would also like to thank those that are commenting on the blog and dropping me a line. I can not tell you what a motivation it is to keep it up and I’m feeling pretty good about it all. Thanks. By the way don’t forget that if you don’t feel like typing you can always just leave me an audio comment with odeo, just click the link on the side bar to the right.
One last thing – still looking for an artist to give us a logo; preferably a cool one (logo that is the artist can be a complete dag… like me!).