Ethan Johnson has pointed to this Podcast Value Chain Report by Alex Nesbitt and asked for my comments.

I had not heard of digitalpodcast.com before, so after taking a look at the report, I took a look at the site. What I found really disturbed me. Digitalpodcast.com has a feed listed for my podcast that is not mine. Who created it? This is similar to what Odeo tried (Odeo is still in beta, by "invitation" only) but an alert Todd Cochrane called them on it after some sleuthing by a podcasting colleague.

According to digitalpodcast, my site feed is http://Bradcast.podkeyword.com. That is incorrect. My site feed is http://www.bradfordgibson.net/rss.xml. There are a couple of other legacy URL's at this site or feedburner that I also still maintain. If you are downloading the Bradcast from any other feed then please re-direct your client software to the real thing.

Look, I have no objection to people carrying portions or all of my feed on their web sites and I am thrilled when I pick up new readers and new listeners. In fact, I carry feeds from other bloggers myself. If you go to my "News Feeds" section on my web site you will find complete feeds from the likes of Robert Scoble and Thomas Barnett. Those feeds are fully credited and attributed in my compound feed. The difference between that practice and what digitalpodcasting.com is doing has to do with subscriptions. In the world of podcasting you need to use a software client to regularly download a podcast, that's a "subscription" based system. You wouldn't subscribe to Time Magazine in order to read the New York Times would you? Anybody who creates a new feed for subscription containing my content in whole or in part is hijacking my feed. If you want to do me a favour, send those prospective readers and listeners to my site and my feed. You will notice that henceforth my feed will carry a copyright notice describing my allowed use for the contents.

UPDATE: It appears that this may be a mistake on digitalpodcast.com's part. I have checked other feed URL's on the site and they have linked back to the feed's owners. So my new question is: Why is podkeyword.com reconstituting feeds and how the heck did it get on the digitalpodcast.com site?

UPPER UPDATE: Alex writes from digitalpodcast.com that the Podkeyword feed has nothing to do with digitalpodcast.com. (see the comment with this post)

My thanks to Alex for clearing this mattter up. Now I should get around to answering Ethan's comments about Alex's white paper on podcasting...