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good thing going.  I think they no longer deserve the free advertising that goes along with anything containing \"pod\", so I agree with #5<br><br>And that was even before I knew about the lawyers... From now on, foot doctors shall be known as \"Foot Doctors\". and when we speak of two peas being in something it shall be know as a pea holder.<br><br>With their transition to \"just another Dell clone\" complete and the (\"i\" + \"syn:FootDoctor\"-\"iatrist\") now becoming a commodity device I predict no more than two quarters before people begin to puzzle over what is happening to their bottom line (the accountants can cook the books for a while and I bet there is some of that going on already.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_15:35:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "macbeach", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654459": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "13 comments? Holy s**t.<br><br>Anyway. If the name is going to change, they need to drop the *cast* part too. It implies *push* technology, not *pull*.<br><br>*Cast* implies that you need to be there at a certain time or you will miss it.<br><br>I vote for *audiofeed*, or *issue*, or *web program* or just about anything else that does not contain *POD* or *CAST*!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-10-01_08:53:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "2d1fd009f5b780e2a083d84b6b031c70", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654460": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@Goebbels:<br><br>\"And, of course, Scoble has had this lame \u201crenaming\u201d conversation before\u2026 each time he failed and he had finally had given in. Now he starts it up again a year later? Yeah, if you can\u2019t get a new name to stick 5 months into something, maybe it\u2019ll work a year and a half into it. Pathetic.\"<br><br>What a jackass. If you disagree, just disagree. Pathetic is as pathetic does. Besides, it looks like he had a point, doesn't it, considering the current situation with Apple going freaky over the word podcast?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_15:43:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "bd71b7625ab84b4ff12d2cc0efccb05b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654461": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is stupid and short sighted... as for this comment:<br><br>\"hmmm\u2026. wen \u201cblog\u201d itself isnt really a standard term yet, I think its premature to think of others\u2026 however \u201cvblog\u201d or \u201cablog\u201d seems more relevant than \u201cpodcast\u201d\u2026\"<br><br>and all the others calling for names like blogcast, blogging and podcasting are totally different. A video podcast is not necessarily a video blog. It's more closely related to a tv show on the web, quite frankly.<br><br>I think using the term blog in association with what we now call podcasts is stupid. It's not equivalent, nor should it be. I always rejected the term \"vlog\" anyway.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_15:41:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "bd71b7625ab84b4ff12d2cc0efccb05b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654462": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "People (like me) have been using audiocast and videocast for a *long* time; this isn't nothing new.  Still, we could use some Big Namess (like Scoble's) to push the terms.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_16:33:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "ebf8577b13c312c41d64a087131a2487", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654463": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "To those of you saying that Apple is in the right with their legal threats to companies that use the term \"pod\" in their names, that's beside the point.  Whether Apple is in the right or not (the courts will decide that, I guess), this situation illustrates why a brand-neutral term is required for \"RSS Feeds with multimedia enclosures\".<br><br>Above, I suggested \"webcast\", but now I agree with  Tom Morris' suggestion of \"feedcast\". :-)<br><br>(\"blogcast\" was suggested above, but that term refers to the subset of \"podcasts\" that originate from blogs, so it shouldn't be the more general term for \"podcasts\".)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_21:42:28", "killed": false, "user_key": "c81a074354982fcc2dd1ae1e54f2fbe2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654464": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about and FU cast for Leo?<br><br>Dont let the \"I really didnt like the name\" stance fool anyone.<br>Leo knows the game well and has no need to fight this and in the same process cut his cozy Apple tie ins.<br><br>There are reasons why we should and shouldnt use the term but Laporte has a vested interest in NOT shaking the boat so Ill skip on his opinion.<br><br>I can not understand the Apple decision since the word association really HELPS them but I never thought Apple to be much different than Microsoft in its approach and actually as their history of lawsuits has shown, they are closer to the Scientologists with rabid fans and lawyers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_18:02:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "4245b2a03bfc96342e82dd0003986df8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654465": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think their approach is a bad one and not a very smart move. I think Apple should allow the term podcast to be as wide spread as possible, after all it links back to the ipod somehow.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_17:01:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "8d555085dbc70e4851680975528520bc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654466": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "apple is power n $ straved... in sure every1 for $", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_16:55:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "b8e03c8ef2af4d71e5283549d6ce9f48", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654467": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm in favor of a name change, but only because it might finally allow MS to include \"netcast\" support in WMP. :-P", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_03:27:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "a4dbfba52ac80af754a865ad869e2be8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654468": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about media cast?  Is that generic enough?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_03:22:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdf546b601bf29a7eb4ca777544d11cd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654469": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Doh! I'm up too late and sleep deprived.  Yes, I like the specific flavor.<br><br>To be hipper, we need to shorten it.<br><br>AudCast (pronounced oddcast) and VidCast.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_03:23:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "cdf546b601bf29a7eb4ca777544d11cd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654470": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Audiocast, Videocast - who talks like that? Why not Talkcast and Seecast.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_15:16:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "636f83bd908a36064551d14b22f7a4b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654471": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think it's too late to change. The word 'podcast' is confusing because it makes people think you need an ipod. And if you have to then explain to people how to listen and not use an ipod... you loose them. As Eric says it's a Show. We need to decouple the 'show' from the device that plays it. And we need to have an alternative to itunes as a 'channel' to get the 'shows'...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_14:11:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "adcf550036230a9eba87f27e039703cf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654472": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Jamie: yeah, but Apple isn\u2019t. They are protecting their trademark, so I say \u201cscrew them.\u201d \"<br><br>Michael Markman is right. Apple doesn't mind the generic term or users using the term. What they mind is lame companies with no brand of their own incorporating \"pod\" specifically into their own name and brand to get instant recognition without doing any of the work.<br><br>They most certainly do have a case in the 2 examples mentioned here. It is quite clear what these companies/products are referencing, what their intent is here. And it is not destinct from Apple's iPod at all.<br><br><br>And, of course, Scoble has had this lame \"renaming\" conversation before... each time he failed and he had finally had given in. Now he starts it up again a year later? Yeah, if you can't get a new name to stick 5 months into something, maybe it'll work a year and a half into it. Pathetic.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_14:31:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654474": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I always thought that \"podcast\" was a stupid name for the following reasons:<br>1. It incorrectly associates the technology with a specific brand of portable media player.  This unfairly hurts iPod competitors.  It also hurts Apple in that it promotes \"pod\" being a generic term for something that is not always iPod (i.e. it helps sell iPods in the short term, but cheapens the brand name in the long term).<br><br>2. It confuses the populace as it makes people think that an iPod is required to listen/view to \"podcasts\".  When I first heard the term \"podcast\" I thought that an iPod was needed, and I'm not J6P, I've been a tech guy for years.  But it's only natural that when first encountering the term, you'd think that an iPod was a necessary component.<br><br>3. Here's the kicker: According to <a href=\"http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback109.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback109.html</a>, 80% of podcasts are NOT listened to on a portable player; rather, they are listened to on the computer that downloaded them (or are thrown away).  Since only 20% of downloaded \"podcasts\" are transferred to a portable player of any kind, the term \"podcast\" is completely idiotic and nonsensical.<br><br>I favor \"webcast\" at the moment.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_21:32:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "c81a074354982fcc2dd1ae1e54f2fbe2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654475": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oh nuts!!!! :( grrrrr<br><br>Lets all thrash this out at the portable media expo next week.<br><br>DOWN WITH APPLE!<br><br>anyone want a cool domain name? ;) *joke* heh", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_20:16:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "22b10ad7c0dc887d3bc66e41ed0de186", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654476": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I understand why Apple would want to protect their imaginative word \"Podcast\" from being *abused* by another manufacturer of portable audio players and other online music stores.<br><br>But, I have a problem with Apple trying to take away the word that has been adopted by all content creators of this medium.<br><br>As a podcast producer that does not gain to profit directly from the use of the word, I will not be changing to a word with less market penetration until I receive a cease and desist and explore legal options.<br><br>And with that, I am now going to go watch a sad movie I tivo'ed with a box of kleenex while I eat a pop tart.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_13:36:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "dfbd73c52408cc107ad8becc3d3b10b0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654477": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As far as I can see, Apple seems fine with podcast as a generic term. The companies they are going after all construct trademarks incorporating \"Pod\" \"iPod\" or \"Podcast\"<br><br>I would think it's to Apple's advantage to keep \"podcast\" in circulation as a generic name, since it implies that you need an iPod to listen to them. It serves as an inducement for people to buy iPods. (Leo says a couple of folks told him they couldn't listen to his podcast because they didn't have iPods. I've also heard that from folks I know.)<br><br>BTW Jake, Apple has filed for a trademark on POD in the U.S. (Serial Number 78521891; filed July 1994). it hasn't been granted, yet.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_13:18:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "c2ec17b9df58d5843b147cf69deef262", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654478": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I personally like \"podcast.\"  Netcast, mediacast, webast... those just don't sound as catchy.  \"Podcast\" is like a whole new generation of flavors.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-30_21:51:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "ad05fa09a592e77f29ca98da4a1ad410", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654479": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, if you seriously think that people are naive enough to think that comments get the same ranking as your headlines, then either:<br><br>a) People are dumber than even I thought<br><br>b) You have an even lower opinion of them than I had thought<br><br>c) all of the above.<br><br>As well, other than this case, which has as much to do with what mypodder DOES as anything else, I find it astonishing that we've not seen a massive flood of C&amp;D letters. maybe a handful. At most.<br><br>By your accusation, Apple would be having to flood everyone from you to Birdseye. Yet, that doesn't seem to be happening.<br><br>mypodder, being software that interacts with an iPod is really dancing on the line there, and that then brings all their other products into a big thorny trademark questions.<br><br>However, you didn't bother to get ANY of the facts yourself. You saw a nice juicy headline, and Dvoraked it.<br><br>Way to go Snap-On.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-30_21:43:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654480": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Great job, Robert-- you basically just zeroed out any brand identity that PodTech was going to have!  Why did they hire you, again?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_12:58:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "ea5036994d8e3d00fe4c9ede36c2d05a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654481": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Podcast\" is here to stay.<br><br>Even the BBC uses the term!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_04:59:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "a0b649256a4d44f0fff6434b1c2dafbc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654482": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "eeeek. Well I'm torn. I never liked how \"podcast\" was inadvertently associated with ipods. Anytime I've ever said the word \"podcast\" to someone who does not know what it is immediately assumes that you need an ipod to listen to it. This has never stopped me from using the termmm...it's way too late. It has seeped into the vernacular and Apple couldn't pry it out with a crowbar. And even though I never liked \"vlog\" as a word--your mouth just trips on it-- I have to reject \"vidcast\" because it leaves out the \"blog\" aspect of what so many people out there are doing. I always went with \"videoblog\", which leaves everything else to be described as \"video on a website\". Clunky, I know, but that's what it is. \"Vodcast\"? Jesus, no, please. What's a \"vod\"? It's still reminiscent of \"pod\". Perhaps videoblogs should be called \"me-casts\"?<br><br>The only logical way to distinguish audio podcasts from video podcasts is to call them exactly that for as long as we're allowed to, which will be forever because I doubt Apple will expend too much time &amp; energy suing little people over \"podcast\". Using \"pod\" within the name of companies and products not sanctioned by Apple is, unfortunately, another story.<br><br>All these terms (vidcast, vlog, podcast, webcast, pidcast, poo-cast) are completely random anyhow. We can call these shows-on-the-web anything we please. I think I'll start calling my video podcast \"pancake\" because I really like pancakes.<br><br>Oh, fine, fine. I won't. I'll call it something non-pod-related that somehow describes what it is without giving a hint as to its content:<br><br>CompVid.<br><br>There.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-30_17:13:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "missbhavens", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654483": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree. I have never liked companies who think they are bigger than customers and apple definitely is up there somewhere in that regard.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_12:25:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "c7a1181aef8939272b494ebe6d0e8814", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654484": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Too late.  Words have meaning whether they are intrinsically descriptive or not.  The social forces that mingle to create new words are too strong to counter.  Podcast already has a meaning and that's not going to change no matter how many well-meaning technologists try to change it.<br><br>You may have noticed that it's just as impossible to rename an even lesser-known term like \"RSS\".  And in the world of Internet search you would end up doing everyone a disservice if you started posting about \"netcasting\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_16:31:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "a1ec001de3357b741967ef22e76aa343", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654485": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I still haven't figured out why they're called Podcasts anyway. Back in the first bubble they were called \"MP3s\".", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-30_15:06:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "ddc219fba56c9a8f678c9ad53faecfe6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654486": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "See if this lights any bulbs:<br><br><a href=\"http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1252\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1252</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_15:01:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "2ad76f17e1955fe27b98eed22a886584", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654487": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Meant to add, do you think Apple got the idea from Mike Arrington ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_14:45:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "b03b7466fe494c4abc41852cda90aa10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654488": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Since when can any company use Kleenex on their product packaging or in their advertising?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_11:41:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "c5097e2c38752ba1f13b2df4463cfb70", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654489": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What about Podtech, yiu guys goin to change your name? Scobletech? Apple-sued-Me-Tech? Ha ha ha.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_11:37:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "eb5bac0b4b8124e011b593b520622614", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654490": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I see Scoble has not responded to the many examples where his former employer sent their goons after anyone that used a brand that even vaguely resembled Windows or Office.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_11:23:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654491": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Quick, register <a href=\"http://p0dc4s7.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">p0dc4s7.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_11:05:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "622489e935f238b6c9038de90890c8f7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654492": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Video Cast\" is cool. In fact, anything featuring the word \"video\" is necessary, because Podcast is, well not saying a lot for the average dude. (Which is in the end the target audience for PodTech, I'm sure)<br><br>But, especially you should care for a name that makes your company name still sound good. PodTech sounds like they are the creator of the original podcast-idea... :)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_10:51:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "Sebastian", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654493": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Re Apple, just you imagine who is on the list for the legal dept<br>- NASA, who have escape \"pods\" on their rockets &amp; shuttles, as well as George Lucas for having the same in the original Star Wars<br>- Any musician that plays Tunes<br>- anyone that refers to themselves as \"I\"<br><br>This is truely a capital value play of immense proportions.<br><br>Odd, some companies would be delighted to have a verb &amp; noun reminding us of their products (especially after already having a very popular fruit!).  I guess flattery just doesn't pay the bills, which must be a worry in the Jobs household.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_12:43:47", "killed": false, "user_key": "b03b7466fe494c4abc41852cda90aa10", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654494": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think that folks should stop using \"podcast\" but the term \"webcast\" has been around for some time now (well before podcast). I think it works.<br><br>Perhaps Ween can claim prior art with their 1991 \"The Pod\" album.<br><br>Do all of the cetaceans need to get a new name for their club?<br><br>When will it stop?<br><br>Erik", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_10:38:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "ae0d6164f8fe6e21e33d6b902b075306", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654495": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What would happen if people just said \"no\" to Apple. If this issue was about \"iPodcasts\" I could see where Apple would have some substance behind their requests to stop using the term, but surely they have no right to the term Podcast. Apple definitely did not come up with that. Did they somehow come up with the rights to it? I don't know, but I think that not only is it ridiculously petty but they could easily lose the fight if people don't back down. And the people shouldn't back down in my opinion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_10:22:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "01e20739fb46ac7f7b97919d71758e4b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654496": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sign up now to win a new \"DEO\"<br>Win-DEO video camera.<br>Google <a href=\"http://Win-deo.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Win-deo.com</a>  hurry before it is to late and someone snatches it up.<br>LOL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_10:26:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e0237c23c2b2985c691dfd237dc7757", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654497": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What's wrong with Video without the cast?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_10:23:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "3717483f26171b61a4e2154fb37ffbd1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654498": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "We could really piss Apple off and start calling both video and audio, \"iCast.\"  But I suppose that would just be asking for trouble.<br><br>We could start a class action against Apple on behalf of the MacIntosh clan.<br><br>We could not worry about what to call them and allow the presentation method, the file format, and the software needed to communicate to the users the medium.<br><br>What about broadcasts that focus on growing peas? Did Apple trademark peapods?  They're branching out into the vegetable world after trademarking fruit?<br><br>The reality is probably that everyone using \"pod\" in some way needs to start making plans to change to something else. At least initially we likely don't all need to agree on a naming convention; just call it what you want. Audcast, vidcast, broadcast, show, this thing I did... they're all good.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_10:14:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "677ee3767d8eba01ae3314e4f15296c8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654499": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree with the above post -- call it a Zunecast.  Microsoft would love the publicity.<br><br>Apple (and the courts) should be able to differentiate between a generic term 'podcast' to something that is ripping off their brand, ie 'ePodThingee'", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_10:14:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "49ffc4abf7f698f1c4a5260536b48c68", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654500": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jamie: yeah, but Apple isn\u2019t. They are protecting their trademark, so I say \u201cscrew them.\u201d<br><br>@Scoble: This coming from a former MS Eichmann.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_01:34:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "2ad76f17e1955fe27b98eed22a886584", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654501": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Do they own the word \"pod\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_01:39:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "6f7addaed3e1d4fdf0b047695ddd5f70", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654502": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "While I think Podcast has too much sticking power, Videocast, or Audiocast is a better descriptional term. And the industry as a whole needs to get over the \"Pod\" hype, bad naming to start with.<br><br>Broadcast, Videocast, Audiocast - keeps within the format, and doesn't narrow to \"net\", for what if you decided to cut the 'Scoble Show' to DVD. And I am against \"vlog\" or anything \"blogging\", as it will instantly create negative marketing perceptions.<br><br>Some of this video stuff is getting really really good, the early cheap consumer camera, shaky-cam days are fading away. Sure you will always have the YouTubers, while Hollywood is distant marker away, but the stuff in the middle is starting to really kick up some real quality niche programming. And gotta give props, the Scoble Show productional quality has really improved, this ain't no Channel 9'isms.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_09:55:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "cab1041ab2de14f71e070c15f8ae968e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654503": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mr. Welch, They may \"have\" to defend their IP. Personally I think they're overreaching their IP and playing the heavy. There's no way they win this round. It's  way too far out ahead of them.<br><br>And, if you have any history to you at all, you'll know Mr. Scoble clearly understands the IP sphere from the recent dust up over O'Reilly's \"Web 2.0 (r)\" conference mess.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_09:53:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "3b64d14e32a5dbdc4534959d69c029f3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654504": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Forget changing the name. Let's rain down jeers on the Apple Representative who accepts the Directory of the Year award at the Podcast Expo this coming Friday night.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_11:37:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "dab16102353ea7fd255f4d82bb093af0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654505": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>That way I can say to my friends \u201chey, did you see Ze Frank\u2019s latest videocast?\u201d</i><br><br>After reco'ing Ze Frank, they might not BE your friends anymore. ;)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_11:39:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "cab1041ab2de14f71e070c15f8ae968e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654506": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, it's no more onerous than when MS went afer Lindows. As David said in 31, when you have a trademark, you <i>must</i> actively protect it or you lose it. There's no choice in it. If someone can show that you're allowing people to use your trademarks, then you lose them.<br><br>Before you start applying moral judgements to actions, perhaps, and here's a wild thought, how about you do a little fact checking...oh wait, yeah, you and the whole fact checking thing.<br><br>EVERY company has to do this to protect their trademark, even MS. Amazing how you seem to forget that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_09:32:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654507": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about<br><br>WINDEOWS?<br>WINDEO? WIN-DEO 2.0? Pronounced like video<br>Geeks shortened quickly to DEO.<br>Deo ?<br>I can hear it now DEO, DEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-O.<br>\"Daylight a-comes and you want to DEO.\"<br>Look out your own Windeo.  Man you guys are gonna have to pay me for some of this stuff ... LOL.<br>Have you seen the new Windeo on channel 9?<br>It's about a pod that mophed in through the window.<br>Come on Bill get the brain trust on it.  LoL", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_08:56:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e0237c23c2b2985c691dfd237dc7757", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654508": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Don't follow.<br>Lead!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_08:57:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e0237c23c2b2985c691dfd237dc7757", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654509": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Companies have to protect their trademarks are they get lost. Ask Hoover how much that has cost them in Great Britain. Is 'Pod' trademarkable or is it only 'iPod'?<br><br>For that matter, Scobbie old son, where were you when Microsoft was protecting 'Windows'? I love how objective you are.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_08:58:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "2129cacf0b9b8fc27b0ca1a63810024c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654510": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Zunecast", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_08:59:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "9b646ff3eeda1f01cc2b1cb86d1634f9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654511": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Do they own the word \u201cpod\u201d?\"<br><br>No they don't, but people including podtechnetworks and other products are using 75% of \"ipod\" in conjunction with services that could be confused with services provided by apple under the trademark. ipod is a device, but I believe it's listed in several classes.<br><br>This threw a wrench in many people's plans, not just podtechnetworks or the game counting device.<br><br>It would be like calling your new site googltech networks. Yes, the e is missing, yes, you will probably be harassed by google inc. Yes google is a commonly used word synonymous with web search.<br><br>POD also means point of delivery. If the mark is used in that way, I doubt apple could do anything unless it was used in conjunction with services they provide.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_09:55:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "129c59f025a1dc017b362505fcbac8fc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654512": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who owns the word \"Cast\"?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_00:24:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "bc2ee4654893ce22a0646d17b66d75cd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654513": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So as Microsoft tries to become less evil, Apple becomes more. I wonder if Apple will keep getting a free pass over stuff like this as they expand these lawsuits, release more bugfests like iTunes, etc.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_10:20:08", "killed": false, "user_key": "29e8eaa9f0c9858504dae585afc9fc1e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654514": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Who would have thought ten years ago that today Bill Gates is the Baby Jesus (due to his incredible philanthropy efforts) and Steve Jobs turned to the darkside to become the friggin' anti-christ!<br><br>What the hell are they thinking? They manufacture computers and mp3 players. They......had the mystique of being cool (the holy grail of marketing). Now that's all down the shitter. That Samsung Rhapsody player is looking \"cooler\" every day.<br><br>As far as a name, since podcasts are similar to a radio program or tv program, let's call it a ProgramCast.<br><br>Still has a ring to it, eh?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_22:47:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "a5f8583dd7036929a46980452d81d782", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654515": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's too late to change. The term is being used everywhere and the mainstream is just catching on to it. People/companies need to fight Apple, they're being totally bone headed on this one.<br>Robert, show us what the blogsphere can do, mobilize the troops.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_08:36:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "1966e5aab1490a53508d57831fddfe8d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654516": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Trying to change how people talk is close to impossible. I wouldn't waste a second on this, Robert. Besides: Trying to teach people about podcasting and RSS is hard enough if we make different names on it all the name.<br><br>Apple is behaving like idiots but I will continue to use \"podcast\" and not the lame videocast and audiocast. It's just confusing.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_05:58:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "7f6957e7f68f44f6738e6df87d42ab94", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654517": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'd switch to podge or podiatrist or podpeople or podspeach... a humoristic brand... something a great corporation will never dare to adopt :-D", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_07:22:14", "killed": false, "user_key": "c70a5ef281cd8120d285e1980ae4d38f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654518": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I might have a case - seems there is some plagiarism going on see<br><a href=\"http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2006/08/20/448032.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2006/...</a> posted 20th of last month :-)<br><br>Still I like to say plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_07:22:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "9f74941773118de8e04ba95710f3a60c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654519": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is crazy, they're actually promoting Apple and doing things that legitimately can be used by its products and they get sued.  Of course this shouldn't really come as a surprise, Jobs has the ego the size of Texas.  Apple is always overprotective with, and control every aspect of their products.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>gamehawk", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_08:24:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "96a18903db9d7c6be3d16d50b8c66897", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654520": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Short answer, probably. The full legal name is podtech networks. The \"pod\" in the name includes a significant portion of the ipod trademark, and the context for the service your company is offering could be confused with services provided by Apple Inc.<br><br>At first I also thought that Apple could not claim this because the class was slightly different, but not now.<br><br>ipod is a VERY strong mark. \"famous\" as it were. If they challenge the company and they don't back down, they will have to re-emburse legal fees to apple when they lose. It's a risk you have to calculate.<br><br>On the surface it would seem easy, but it's not. Hey, the name is free, just take it right. Nope. You really do have to have the strongest use of the mark in the class.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_22:16:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "129c59f025a1dc017b362505fcbac8fc", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654521": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whoa, daddy-o! That's seriously wrong. They didn't even invent the term. &gt;grumble, grumble", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_21:50:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "45be304228fd4fb743b048e84bff665f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654522": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hmmm.... wen \"blog\" itself isnt really a standard term yet, I think its premature to think of others... however \"vblog\" or \"ablog\" seems more relevant than \"podcast\"...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_06:50:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "b457396443e2c1fba650aed03ce98d09", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654523": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Podcast is a misnomer in the fact the you don't need a Pod to view or listen to the media.<br><br>The 'cast' part comes in when media is sent down an RSS feed.<br><br>So I usually try to differentiate between a Video Blog and a Video Podcast.<br><br>You can watch video on a videoblog and have it delivered in a video podcast.<br><br>But if we are to stop using the word podcast, head over to YouTube and listen to what the kids are calling what they do.<br><br>They are putting up and recording vlogs.  Although they are not really making a new vlog each time they record a video.  That would entail going somewhere like blogger or typepad and creating a new vlog with header, entries, blah blah blah.<br><br>People are making new blogs all the time, but all they are really doing is posting a new entry to their existing blog.<br><br>I'm off to make a new vlog now. ;-)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_07:00:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "701850f928fdac43d499036f274416e1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654524": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think Apple is being petty and at the same time, maybe it is time for a change.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_05:36:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "17ced993c6a8f652b865bfbbdef963fe", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654525": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "cast, its just a cast, you can tell what kind when i say i watched it or that you should hear it. mostly you wouldn't care what kind it was  - just why it was good or bad.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_19:47:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "dff29be41495b53ece5466b7e39e2dd8", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654526": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Blogcast and blogcasting works for me. Video podcasting or similar simply becomes video blogging, after all, Amanda Congdon refers to herself as a video blogger (check out the Amanda does America series).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_06:15:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "f29c1c44f0c43207f87cd00ae8768bf9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654527": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "It's not and never will be a videocast - it's The Show.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_05:34:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "edfed92f9dfda48e55d386486c9457cd", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654528": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "One word: \"feedcast\".<br><br>And a downvote for \"vlog\". Too Russian for our mixed Germanic and Romantic language. It sounds horrible and has about the same feeling inside one's mouth as a urine-soaked cockroach.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_19:27:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "5a96068fd15d7226b7f4aa6d8d7e0c7d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654529": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree that 'podcast' has too much traction to be replaced, but perhaps 'vidcast' could be used for video.<br><br>Considering people don't even say 'weblog' -- good luck getting them to say 'audio' or 'video'<br><br>Perhaps, 'soundcast' is snappier, but still not as catchy as 'podcast'.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:33:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "3f69412354ba9abfe8f5ef6ee402c556", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654530": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I still like videoblog or vlog if it has to be shorted.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:36:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "c096eaff4f77b53b96680f789eb3c59d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654531": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't think Apple really has a trademark on 'Pod', and even if they did, I don't think it would stand up.<br><br>It's also probably not useful to try to rename 'podcast' from the top down -- sooooo many people use it, that trying to change it will only come across as fake or cheesy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:45:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "16d82e011392e902a0899482c8f2c175", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654532": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I dunno, my show celebrates five years this October.<br><br>Was a show then. Is a show now.(and it passes the mom test which 99% of the retard words we make up will never do.)<br><br>The end.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:45:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "e3827a7c1741cf42d52a0ab0dc2dc9ff", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654533": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The american pto employs retards - you didnt discuss web 2.0 getting marked by O'reilly (book publishers).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_18:56:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "da29e90e3ee3e8f6d26e5b5453104362", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654534": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, Apple have no chance in hell of winning this fight.<br><br>Podcasts already have so much traction.  It would be stupid to change.  Im a huge Apple fan, but fuck them on this occasion.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:20:59", "killed": false, "user_key": "254e55cf40eefad4bd622b5f24469062", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654535": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My three year old walks around the house with his own Palm Pilot, an SD card case. He happens to be growing up in a world that will have no superstars and why would anyone on TV be special? He is on TV all the time. He cant wait to report the news over at the <a href=\"http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics/multimedia/enn/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Everyday News Network</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:11:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "9c9bbbf2935a01d2c3513b04f95afd29", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654536": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Excuse me?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:06:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "9c9bbbf2935a01d2c3513b04f95afd29", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654537": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Christian: oh, I just sneezed into my Kleenex, which really isn't a Kleenex, and Googled your name on Windows Live and ...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:05:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654538": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What about 'Pdcast', pronounced podcast.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:01:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "8de6d69b79a92c11340623841c064916", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654539": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I still call my PDA my Palm Pilot. I think Audio and Video is just fine. I need to go Xerox my timecard and Hoover my livingroom now.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_04:03:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "9c9bbbf2935a01d2c3513b04f95afd29", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654540": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Im fine with podcast, thanks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_03:52:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "254e55cf40eefad4bd622b5f24469062", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654541": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jamie: yeah, but Apple isn't. They are protecting their trademark, so I say \"screw them.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-23_03:59:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654542": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Time to start considering using the term MODCast \"Media On Demand\" Cast. It seems like a better option than VODCast or AUDcast which the description is to limiting by describing the type of program (video/audio). This is still short, simple, and easy to remember. It should also help clairify that you don't need an \"iPod\" in order to download and listen to or view the media, which many consumer still misunderstand.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_22:52:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "7299c1ef9c67d75e92a121ca471f98a7", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654543": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Robert, just drop the 'O' in the written version and keep the great logo and call it PDTech.  Or like m00 says.  Everyone who knew it before will still refer to it as podtech.  Kind of like short form on a licence plate...", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_22:02:16", "killed": false, "user_key": "4eedbd9f851643c0e36833f2c88b6abf", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654544": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "There are several seemingly mutually contradictory strategies to be adopted:<br>1) Inertia. Example: podcast.<br>2) Respect Apple's position and acknowledge their exclusive rights to dictate how the word \"pod\" may and may not be used. Example: netcast, mediacast.<br>3) Use the rename as an excuse to bring attention to Apple's disgraceful conduct. Example: zunecast, stevejobscankissmyhairybuttcast.<br><br>We can unify all three strategies by calling it a p*dcast (pronounced \"podcast\", and spelled with an asterisk).", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_17:25:32", "killed": false, "user_key": "852818f447b50a7a40d564d170dc7c02", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654545": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "The thing which distringuished _casting is the use of a feed, so it's FEEDCAST!<br>How do I trademark that?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-30_06:26:55", "killed": false, "user_key": "ca710414b581f7f90e6dcf7f8597583a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654546": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John: this is why I have open comments, so the record gets corrected by you. Yes, they are going after people who are using the word \"pod.\"<br><br>The point still stands. Last time I checked \"pod\" is part of \"podtech.\" And it also is part of \"podcasting.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-30_05:28:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654547": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hmm... will they go after the <a href=\"http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=podcast+site%3Abbc.co.uk&amp;mkt=en-GB&amp;FORM=LVCP\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC</a> and <a href=\"http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=podcast+site%3Anpr.org&amp;mkt=en-GB&amp;FORM=LVCP\" rel=\"nofollow\">NPR</a>? (links go to searches for \"podcast\" on each site)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_22:51:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "802d77a7b7e4a87fbd2ea006df9a21a9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654548": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "So RObert, now that the C&amp;D letter was actually posted on this whole mess, are you planning on another post talking about how Apple wasn't ACTUALLY going after them for \"podcast\"?<br><br>Or are you content to let inaccurate postings rule yet again.<br><br>You know how I tell you \"You should do better with that fact gathering, you tend to burn yourself when you don't\" and you reply \"Screw you, I'm not waiting, i know i'm right this time\", and you rarely are?<br><br>Has it ever occured to you that maybe your way kinda sucks here?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-30_00:09:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654549": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hey Scoble.. why do they call it a PODcast anyways...<br><br>oh yeah. right.<br><br>As if Apple would ever stop someone from using podcasts... what they'll do is threaten their competitors..", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-24_23:48:58", "killed": false, "user_key": "ad6b3ed70e18b565dca6c4f179f098f2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654550": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Will this eventually mean that Microsoft and other companies won't be able to use the word \"Podcasts\" when offering audio and video content for their media players, Media Centers, or mobile phones in the future?<br><br>Let it go Apple.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_01:57:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "fdb2f19b42f5f44f5dbafedd6ce85ece", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654551": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's shorten it even more. E-cast! M-cast! G-cast Beta!<br>Anyway, noone's gonna care if podcast is gonna be changed to mediacast or whatever, everybody will still use id in everyday speech, the internet will still use the terms so that \"oldies\" can browse for it. It's like Sony going after us for saying Walkman at a Panasonic casette player. nobody will care if Apple wins this battle. That is my opinion:)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_02:36:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "b2fa0380a2b66fd463d64ce92abd62d3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654552": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Does anyone actually listen to podcasts on an ipod? Or any portable media player?<br><br>RSS enclosures were a great solution to a scarcity problem when bandwidth was expensive. As bandwidth becomes cheaper and more ubiquitous the need to download in background goes away. And it's questionable whether it's cheaper for the provider to deliver thousands of enclosures that are then discarded or to stream fewer on demand. The one thing that would have changed this dynamic would have been widespread use of BitTorrent as a delivery mechanism.<br><br>So let's celebrate audio and video blogging, and the democratisation of audio and video production and back off from promotion of a specific product from a specific company. Especially one that doesn't want to be inclusive.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_02:44:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "ce83a8e239c0cfce3488d3fec4d5d8de", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654553": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How would apple like it if we all started saying . . .<br><br>ZUNECAST.<br><br>See how they like their free brand-building going to the competition!<br><br>Totally Hapless.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_14:37:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "4121cb597714f54f529a1212a34c2193", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654554": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apple might as well insist podiatrists rename their profession to footology.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_14:32:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "68c1a5b7e60dec48f820c4e4d0b6390a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654555": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"To those of you saying that Apple is in the right with their legal threats to companies that use the term \u201cpod\u201d in their names, that\u2019s beside the point. Whether Apple is in the right or not (the courts will decide that, I guess), this situation illustrates why a brand-neutral term is required for \u201cRSS Feeds with multimedia enclosures\u201d. \"<br><br>That's exactly the point and why defending Apple is not besides the point. Apple is not going after companies using it in a brand-neutral manner to describe a technology. They are going after companies who are trying to use the term to create a brand for themselves. People are claiming the debate is: Apple is evil; they are going after anyone using \"podcast.\" This is not true. The debate should be: why can these companies not create their own brand, why can't they create a company or product name that doesn't reference the generic field they are in? That's the debate as I see it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_08:22:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "3aeb85796d88e54daedf94e769fda691", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654556": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Some more thoughts:<br>- Maybe we need to drop the 'cast' bit too?<br>- P O D in podcast  - for me - has always meant 'Portable On Demand'<br>- Many people I speak to think you need an iPod to consume podcasts<br>- Many iPod users hate their iPods as they trash content.<br>- I think we need to distiguish between audio and video - and other media formats  - is 'media' the word to use?<br><br>- It needs to 'sound' automatic and easy<br>- It uses feeds<br>- It can be consumed where you like (desktop or portable) - and WHENEVER you want - on demand<br><br>- I agree with Dave Winer that we need to get together and produce/define our own media player/recorder. Screw Apple. Their products might look good, but they simply are NOT THAT good, when you have tried alot of the competition.<br><br><br>As far as I know, Apple have not contacted us - yet  (<a href=\"http://podcast.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">podcast.com</a>)  - but then we're still (just) pre-beta", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_08:45:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "22b10ad7c0dc887d3bc66e41ed0de186", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654557": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I say we give Apple what they want.<br><br>We stop using Podcast.<br><br>What about \"AppleSucksCast\"?<br>\"BiteMeSteveJobsCast\"?<br>\"TakingAPageFromTheGoogleHandbookCast\"?<br>\"ThanksForYourMoneyNowBendOverCast\"?<br><br>It used to be, when I was in college that people WANTED to have their name/brand/product used as the word for a generic item (think Kleenex)<br><br>Why is Apple so opposed to holding such a tight grip on simple words...especially when they benefit from it.  How many people assume that you need an iPod to listen to them.  I wonder how many have bought an iPod for that reason?<br><br>The other question is why do people keep worshiping Apple when they pull this type of stuff?<br><br>What about calling it a \"WindowsCast\" or \"MSCast?\" Really stick it to Apple.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_10:50:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "f5c3bef635eacb9fd72fea6379492eca", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654558": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "youre right!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_04:41:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "2d68a921186737ce187da467ace8811f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654559": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "apple is becoming microsoft... shudder.<br><br>getting up in arms about the term \"podcast\" seems as well-grounded as getting up in arms about the term \"blog.\"", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_04:39:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "e45741866060e73f1d5342a5c1f41693", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654560": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Or, how about the members with gravitas in the podcast community, including yourself and Leo, alongside the EFF, fight this off and make a fuss about it, get it in the general press instead of running to the hills with your tails between your legs?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_11:23:43", "killed": false, "user_key": "59997826a870cf95a429fef650bdac6d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654562": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Apple's corporate counsel must be paid by the hour. This makes no sense as a strategy for Apple.<br><br>Most companies would kill to have a category-defining brand name like Vice-Grips, Crescent wrench, Ziploc, Kleenex, etc.<br><br>Apple has tremendous branding in the term podcast. Now they want to restrict its use. Unbelievable.<br><br>- frabgod<br><a href=\"http://www.zunerama.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.zunerama.com</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_12:29:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "442556b4384aa630403f15190b4e2706", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654563": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Or we could go further back revisit 'Push' ... perhaps calling it 'Pull technology' ?<br><br>Pullcast... ah... isn't this thread dead yet?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-28_05:12:33", "killed": false, "user_key": "3f69412354ba9abfe8f5ef6ee402c556", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654564": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Apple is not going after companies using it in a brand-neutral manner to describe a technology. They are going after companies who are trying to use the term to create a brand for themselves.\"<br><br>That Apple is going after *anybody* is evidence that we need a new, brand-neutral, term.<br><br><br><br>\"why can these companies not create their own brand, why can\u2019t they create a company or product name that doesn\u2019t reference the generic field they are in? That\u2019s the debate as I see it.\"<br><br>That is idiocy.  That would mean that Microsoft shouldn't use the word \"soft\" in their name because it refers to the generic field that they are in (\"software\").  Come on, now.<br><br>BTW, Apple didn't invent \"podcasting\", so why should they have any higher claim to the term than anyone else?  I don't think Apple has any claime to \"Pod\" eitehr, except in the market for portable media players.  So companies like Pod Tech, which use the word \"POD\" but don't make portable players (so \"pod\" refers to \"podcasting\" and shouldn't be confused with \"iPod\") should be free to use the word.  You and Apple disagree.  That means that a new term is required.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_14:29:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "c81a074354982fcc2dd1ae1e54f2fbe2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654565": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Most companies would kill to have a category-defining brand name like Vice-Grips, Crescent wrench, Ziploc, Kleenex, etc.\"<br><br>Well, that's good in the short term, but dilutes the brand name in the long term.  Today, when someone goes to the store with the intent to get a box of \"Kleenex\", there's a good chance they'll actually buy some other tissue paper, and still call it \"Kleenex\".  That doesn't help the \"Kleenex\" company any.<br><br>\"iPod\" isn't at that stage yet.  \"iPod\" everyday becomes more and more generic as a term to mean \"portalbe digital media player\", but not to the point where people go to the store to get an iPod and get a Zune, Gigabeat, Sansa, Zen, etc while still calling it \"iPod\".  Right now, the term \"iPod\" still does wonders for Apple (as \"Kleenex\" did back in the day), but I can see why Apple wouldn't want the \"iPod\" to get diluted.  (I still say that while they may have a trademark claim to the term \"pod\" wrt portable players, they have no claim to the term \"Pod\" wrt \"podcasting\" as they didn't invent podcasting nor did they even invent the term \"podcasting\".)<br><br>A couple of other tech terms that may become \"generic\" in the future:<br>Google: could become generic for \"internet search\" someday (it's not that today, I don't think).<br><br>PowerPoint: seems that all presentations are called \"PowerPoint\" regardless of what software made them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_14:38:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "c81a074354982fcc2dd1ae1e54f2fbe2", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654566": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I agree that it would be pointless to try and change the use of \"podcast\" now - - it's in the vernacular and minus perhaps a BIG marketing investment, that seems unlikely to change.<br><br>My inner geek is compelled to point out, tho, that the posting of media \"casts\" (aud/vid/whatever) to the net is NOT what's new - hell, we've been doing that for well over a decade.<br><br>It's the fully personal, customized, seamless, time-shifted aggregation of said media.  There's even already a word for it:  broadcatching.<br><br><a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcatching\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcatching</a><br><br>fwiw.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-27_20:19:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "f6c7dc872c61200fcaa98bc4d32d2a6a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654567": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<a href=\"http://media.libsyn.com/media/podcast411/411_060925.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://media.libsyn.com/media/podcast411/411_06...</a><br><br>Rob,<br><br>I am disappointed in how much you really missed this story by.<br><br>I did some journalism work on this and got to the heart of the story - you can hear it at the link above.<br><br>Rob @ podCast411", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_11:12:19", "killed": false, "user_key": "96063bf461a6784162f76d8018e338ce", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654568": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about we tell Apple to go...fly a kite?  Jump off a cliff?  Get lost? STFU?  Or of course.. you could just give in and change the name.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_16:19:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "d43d811605a906940dd31dc3dd09676c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654569": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Mosely Vs. Secret Catalogue.<br><br>This is will help decide all trademark dilution. The case is to solve the conflict on the interpretation of the FTDA- to see if there was economic harm to prove \u201cdilution under the FTDA.\u201d Trademark law is part of a broader law regarding English common law in the Trademark Act of 1946. But prohibitions against \u201ctrademark dilution\u201d are not part of common law. The law passed by congress definitely needs to demonstrate \u201cactual dilution\u201d rather than the likelihood of dilution.<br> The key legal issue in this case regarding the meaning of the FTDA is \u201cmental association\u201d does not reduce the capacity of the famous brand to identify its good, which is what the FTDA requires. The Supreme Court decided regarding this issue that there is not enough evidence to support the judgment on the dilution count. If a consumer can distinguish from one product to the other then there isn't enough evidence to support dilution on the trademark. Apple is not to smart to take on this supreme court decision.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_09:52:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "eb8d10518af049d8c7651fcc97a4c535", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654570": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I opened this entry with more than 100 comments expecting there would be some substance to it.  There is not.   If a cease and desist letter exists (notice that the complainer has not posted one) it is directed at people who try to use the term Podcast for commercial purposes.   'Podcast Ready' may be a target because it seeks to compete with iTS in a way that might confuse downloaders.  It should differentiate itself, making clear that it is an alternative, not iTM's podcast service.  As for the everyday use of the term 'podcast,' trademark protection is not about that.  The general public is completely free to use the word 'podcast.'<br><br>This thread did give Windows fanboys who hate the fact that Apple owns the digital download and digital players markets a chance to show their asses.  Otherwise, it is a waste of time.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_01:39:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "fff84bc87483c130a095dba4c2969247", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654571": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What gets me is when people make a big fuss that 'netcast' and 'audiocast' are their views and their ideas. Podcasting is a stupid word and I have stated that on many occasions. It does nothing more than add more baggage to technology and more layers of jargon for people to penetrate / congratulate themselves on.<br><br>I can't fucking believe people are just waking up to this.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-26_07:16:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "b633b70647b7320ba9f05c2df2dcc56a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654572": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I think audiocast and videocast are perfect choices. netcast is so 90's and podcast is misleading. audiocast and videocast are clear concise and easy to switch over to", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_21:14:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "zunemax", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654573": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "How about Audcast and Vidcast. The cool thing is that Audcast kind of sounds like Podcast.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-25_22:39:49", "killed": false, "user_key": "e5e5f5cbed17139989c8e6bef769c0e0", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654574": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Why doesn't Apple just change it's name to something new?  I suggest iPud.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-10-01_14:44:27", "killed": false, "user_key": "894e015dd504d5df6cd9a8f0a95100e9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654575": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "i'm late to the discussion here... long time reader, first time poster.  :)<br><br>just wanted to \"third\" the suggestion of FEEDCAST.  i've seen it floating around a handful of places, and i think that's the term that makes the most sense.<br><br>i agree with leo, let's move on from \"podcast.\" and as a PC gal, i'm happy to stop giving apple the free marketing!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-10-16_02:44:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "6e88caae3c40702c61f280d242dc136b", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654576": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "MS was 1st to Patent Podcast, says NYT.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-10-30_18:08:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "d7a9676aecd7f4868435be4e8aea6a12", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654577": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Let's just call them \"casts\".<br><br>I listened to the cast on Apple's litigation processes, have you seen the cast on iPod sweatshop conditions... It will be fine. Because of the popularity of Youtube, video casts might end up being called tubes. Casts and tubes, it's all fine.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-01-19_01:55:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "923d10bc97028030e8e67e7db62658d1", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654578": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This should have been prevented if people were only conscious about copyrights and intellectual rights property.  But in fairness to other companies, I think Apple should be a little considerate and investigate more prior to submitting a case or complaint.  Because the more that we run after anyone in order to pull them down so we can rise above, the more that we will sink.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2007-11-27_22:12:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "62408a211cb1c529fff4a4c82d60659c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "2 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9654579": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Suing bloggers is just ridiculous. What is Apple going to start doing, suing people for speaking about their products in public too? That's essentially what a blog is. Not only is it a gross violation of 1st Amendment rights to sue bloggers, it also makes me think that they're covering something up. Why not let people talk about their products? If they're built well they'll stand up to commentary. Perhaps in a year when they've had widespread MacBook Seagate HDD issues, tried to sue bloggers, and released Leopard with many bugs before it was ready they fell it necessary to attack their customers. Still, in general, any publicity is good publicity. As one blogger said on another site \"I still love Apple even when they're suing us,\" or something of that nature. As dumb as I think it is to protect a company that violates your 1st amendment rights, we have to remember that in the end Winston loved Big Brother. Anyway, when consumers talk about Apple products it is good for other consumer. Consumers should demand their rights to talk about companies that they buy products from so they can hold those companies accountable when they release crap and over charge for it. This should be a basic consumer right. It drives me nuts that 90% of people can just switch to Linux at this point anyway, but we  continue to put up with Apple's iFascist tactics. Oh, I better say in my opinion in case they try to violate my rights. Anyway, if you're podcasting you should be able to say podcast. In general you should be able to say it in any way shape or form. If Apple has advertised it it is probably part of public culture anyway. How can you release terminology publicly and then sue for people doing free advertising for you, etc.<br>What a bunch of assholes.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2008-07-16_10:20:57", "killed": false, "user_key": "dd73d65e804bf63c01d1e5e92a0895f4", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "1 year ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}}, "integration": {"receiver_url": "", "theme": 4, "reply_position": true, "disqus_logo": false}, "timer": {"timer_url": "http://localhost:8005", "thread_id": "18359105", "user_id": "anonymous", "forum_id": "125200", "hash": -8274534743348790525}, "thread": {"total_posts": 0, "paginate": false, "per_page": 0, "slug": "will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer", "num_pages": 1, "days_alive": 0, "realtime_paused": true, "id": 18359105, "num_posts": 120, "closed": true, "queued": false, "killed": false}, "reactions_limit": 10, "context": {"show_reply": false, "use_fb_connect": true, "forum_facebook_key": "faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570", "use_yahoo": false, "subscribed": false, "use_twitter_signin": true, "use_openid": false, "realtime_speed": 5000}, "reactions_start": 0, "settings": {"debug": false, "disqus_url": "http://disqus.com", "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"}, "media_url": "http://media.disqus.com"};
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	this.curPageId = 'dsq-comments';

	this.frames = {};
};

var disqus_popup_reference = null;

if(typeof DsqLocal == 'undefined') {
	DsqLocal = {};
}



/**
 * Dsq.Strings: UI strings
 */
Dsq.Strings = new function() {
	this.ADD_NEW_COMMENT = "Add New Comment";
	this.LOG_INTO_DISQUS = "Log into DISQUS";
	this.USE_MEDIA = "Use Media";
	this.LOGOUT = "Logout";
	this.SHARING_OPTIONS = "Sharing options";
	this.SHARE_ON = "Share on";
	this.TWEET_THIS_COMMENT = "Tweet this comment";
	this.SHARE_ON_NEWSFEED = "Share on news feed";
	this.SEND_UPDATE_TO_YAHOO = "Send update to Yahoo!";
	this.REBLOG_ON = "Reblog on";
	this.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS = "Configure options";
	this.POST_AS = "Post as";
	this.SORT_BY = "Sort by";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe by email";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS = "Subscribe by RSS";
	this.POPULAR_NOW = "Popular now";
	this.BEST_RATING = "Best Rating";
	this.NEWEST_FIRST = "Newest first";
	this.OLDEST_FIRST = "Oldest first";
	this.HIGHLIGHTED = "Highlighted";
	this.UNSUBSCRIBE = "Unsubscribe";
	this.REQUIRED = "Required";
	this.OPTIONAL = "Optional";
	this.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A = "You are commenting as a";
	this.LOGIN_BELOW = "Login below";
	this.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT = "Please login below to comment.";
	this.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL = "Subscribe to all comments by email";
	this.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS = "Do not subscribe to comments";
	this.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS = "Real-time updating is";
	this.ENABLED = "enabled";
	this.PAUSED = "paused";
	this.PAUSE = "Pause";
	this.RESUME = "Resume";
	this.SHOW = "Show";
	this.JUST_NOW = "Just now";
	this.REPLY = "Reply";
	this.EDIT = "Edit";
	this.FLAG = "Flag";
	this.MODERATE = "Moderate";
	this.CANCEL = "Cancel";
	this.REPLYING_TO = "Replying to";
	this.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS = "Report missing reactions";
	this.POST_A_COMMENT = "Post a comment";
	this.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT = "Flag inappropriate comment";
	this.FLAGGED = "Flagged";
	this.NO = "No";
	this.YES = "Yes";
	this.NEVER_MIND = "Never mind";
	this.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR = "Are you sure you would like to report this comment to a moderator";
	this.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION = "This will flag comments for moderators to take action";
	this.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN = "To rate, please log in";
	this.JUST_A_MOMENT = "Just a moment...";
	this.GUEST = "Guest";
	this.NAME = "Name";
	this.EMAIL = "Email";
  this.WEBSITE = "Website";
  this.SETTINGS = "Settings";
  this.MODERATOR_OPTIONS = "Moderator options: ";
  this.MODERATE_OPTIONS = "Moderate Options";

  // Thread moderator actions
  this.CLOSE_THREAD = "Close thread";
  this.OPEN_THREAD = "Open thread";
  this.REMOVE_THREAD = "Remove thread";
  this.RESTORE_THREAD = "Restore thread";
  this.ACTIONS = "Actions";
};
// Dsq.Strings

/**
 * Dsq.FmtStrings: functions that return interpolated UI strings
 */
Dsq.FmtStrings = new function() {
	// Seems we have to use named interpolation for Django to translate. Investigate more.
	this.LOGGED_IN_AS = function(username) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logged in as %(username)s', {username:username});
	};

	this.LOGOUT_FROM = function(disqus) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate('Logout from %(disqus)s', {disqus:disqus});
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL = function(total, num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comment", {num:num, total:total});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> of <span id='dsq-total-posts'>%(total)s</span> comments", {num:num, total:total});
		}
	};

	this.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION = function(num) {
		if (num === 1) {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comment", {num:num});
		} else {
			return Dsq.Utils.interpolate("Showing <span id='dsq-num-posts'>%(num)s</span> comments", {num:num});
		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">120</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18359105" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'will_apple_sue_podtechnet_my_employer'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18359105/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: id});
		showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed = function(container, opt_postId) {
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
		} else {
			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
		}
	};
	obj.hideAllInContainer = function(container) {
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				child.style.display = 'none';
			}
		}
	};

	return obj;
}();

Dsq.Twitter = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._twitterWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/twitter/begin/', 'twitterWindow', popupParams);
		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
		if (that._twitterWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
	};

	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
		};

		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
		}

		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=500';
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/openid/begin/' + '?url=' + encodeURIComponent(openid_url) + '&username=' + encodeURIComponent(username);
		that._openidWindow = window.open(url, 'openidWindow', popupParams);
		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeConnect = function() {
		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
		}
	};
};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
			return;
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.queued) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Your report has been received. The system will automatically search for new reactions; if any are found, they will be displayed on this comment thread.<br/><br/>Thank&nbsp;you.',
												 'Reported missing reactions');
			return;
		}

		Dsq.Utils.execScript(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/forums/scobleizer/queueurl.js');
	};
};

Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
	};

	return obj;
}();


if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
		this.callback = function (data) {
			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
		};
	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
		var swf = !!playerVersion ? playerVersion : 'http://seesmic.com/embeds/StandalonePlayer.swf';

		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
			so.addVariable('video', _videoUri);
			so.addParam('allowFullScreen', 'true');
			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
			so.useExpressInstall('swfobject/expressinstall.swf');
			so.write(_videoUri + '_content');

			previewDiv.style.display = 'none';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'block';
			showDiv.style.display = 'none';
		}
		else {
			flashcontentDiv.innerHTML = '';
			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
		}
	};





(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
		for(var prop in Dsq.Themes[theme]) {
			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654468" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654468" href="http://haacked.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Haacked</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654468" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654468" class="dsq-comment-message">How about media cast?  Is that generic enough?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654469" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654469" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654469" href="http://haacked.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Haacked</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654469" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654469" class="dsq-comment-message">Doh! I\'m up too late and sleep deprived.  Yes, I like the specific flavor.<br><br>To be hipper, we need to shorten it.<br><br>AudCast (pronounced oddcast) and VidCast.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654467" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654467" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654467">Todd</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654467" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654467" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m in favor of a name change, but only because it might finally allow MS to include "netcast" support in WMP. :-P</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654540" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654540" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654540">Jamie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654540" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654540" class="dsq-comment-message">Im fine with podcast, thanks.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654541" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654541" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654541" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654541" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654541" class="dsq-comment-message">Jamie: yeah, but Apple isn\'t. They are protecting their trademark, so I say "screw them."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654538" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654538" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654538">Fred</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654538" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654538" class="dsq-comment-message">What about \'Pdcast\', pronounced podcast.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654539">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654539" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654539" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654539" href="http://christianburns.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Christian Burns</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654539" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654539" class="dsq-comment-message">I still call my PDA my Palm Pilot. I think Audio and Video is just fine. I need to go Xerox my timecard and Hoover my livingroom now.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654537" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654537" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654537" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654537" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654537" class="dsq-comment-message">Christian: oh, I just sneezed into my Kleenex, which really isn\'t a Kleenex, and Googled your name on Windows Live and ...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654536" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654536" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654536" href="http://christianburns.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Christian Burns</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654536" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654536" class="dsq-comment-message">Excuse me?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654535" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654535" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654535" href="http://christianburns.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Christian Burns</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654535" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654535" class="dsq-comment-message">My three year old walks around the house with his own Palm Pilot, an SD card case. He happens to be growing up in a world that will have no superstars and why would anyone on TV be special? He is on TV all the time. He cant wait to report the news over at the <a href="http://www.visionforum.com/hottopics/multimedia/enn/" rel="nofollow">Everyday News Network</a>.</div>\
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	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654534">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654534" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654534" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654534">Jamie</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654534" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654534" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, Apple have no chance in hell of winning this fight.<br><br>Podcasts already have so much traction.  It would be stupid to change.  Im a huge Apple fan, but fuck them on this occasion.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654529" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654529" href="http://www.feverishmind.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kai</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654529" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654529" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree that \'podcast\' has too much traction to be replaced, but perhaps \'vidcast\' could be used for video.<br><br>Considering people don\'t even say \'weblog\' -- good luck getting them to say \'audio\' or \'video\'<br><br>Perhaps, \'soundcast\' is snappier, but still not as catchy as \'podcast\'.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654530" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654530" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654530" href="http://www.geekentertainment.tv/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eddie Codel</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654530" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654530" class="dsq-comment-message">I still like videoblog or vlog if it has to be shorted.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654532" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654532" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654532" href="http://ericrice.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eric Rice</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654532" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654532" class="dsq-comment-message">I dunno, my show celebrates five years this October.<br><br>Was a show then. Is a show now.(and it passes the mom test which 99% of the retard words we make up will never do.)<br><br>The end.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654531" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654531">Jake</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654531" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654531" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think Apple really has a trademark on \'Pod\', and even if they did, I don\'t think it would stand up.<br><br>It\'s also probably not useful to try to rename \'podcast\' from the top down -- sooooo many people use it, that trying to change it will only come across as fake or cheesy.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654527" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654527" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654527" href="http://makemarketinghistory.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John Dodds</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654527" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654527" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s not and never will be a videocast - it\'s The Show.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654524" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654524" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654524" href="http://www.chilibean.co.za/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Paul</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654524" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654524" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Apple is being petty and at the same time, maybe it is time for a change.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654516" class="dsq-comment-header">\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654516" href="http://brilliantdays.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Oyvind</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654516" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654516" class="dsq-comment-message">Trying to change how people talk is close to impossible. I wouldn\'t waste a second on this, Robert. Besides: Trying to teach people about podcasting and RSS is hard enough if we make different names on it all the name.<br><br>Apple is behaving like idiots but I will continue to use "podcast" and not the lame videocast and audiocast. It\'s just confusing.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654526" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654526" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654526" href="http://www.duncanriley.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Duncan</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654526" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654526" class="dsq-comment-message">Blogcast and blogcasting works for me. Video podcasting or similar simply becomes video blogging, after all, Amanda Congdon refers to herself as a video blogger (check out the Amanda does America series).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654522" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654522" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654522" href="http://blog.expressbit.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Manoj</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654522" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654522" class="dsq-comment-message">hmmm.... wen "blog" itself isnt really a standard term yet, I think its premature to think of others... however "vblog" or "ablog" seems more relevant than "podcast"...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654523" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654523" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654523" href="http://stevegarfield.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">stevegarfield</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654523" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654523" class="dsq-comment-message">Podcast is a misnomer in the fact the you don\'t need a Pod to view or listen to the media.<br><br>The \'cast\' part comes in when media is sent down an RSS feed.<br><br>So I usually try to differentiate between a Video Blog and a Video Podcast.<br><br>You can watch video on a videoblog and have it delivered in a video podcast.<br><br>But if we are to stop using the word podcast, head over to YouTube and listen to what the kids are calling what they do.<br><br>They are putting up and recording vlogs.  Although they are not really making a new vlog each time they record a video.  That would entail going somewhere like blogger or typepad and creating a new vlog with header, entries, blah blah blah.<br><br>People are making new blogs all the time, but all they are really doing is posting a new entry to their existing blog.<br><br>I\'m off to make a new vlog now. ;-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654517" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654517" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654517" href="http://www.spiderlessweb.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nicola Mattina</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654517" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654517" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'d switch to podge or podiatrist or podpeople or podspeach... a humoristic brand... something a great corporation will never dare to adopt :-D</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654518" href="http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">James O&#39;Neill</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654518" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654518" class="dsq-comment-message">I might have a case - seems there is some plagiarism going on see<br><a href="http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2006/08/20/448032.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.technet.com/jamesone/archive/2006/...</a> posted 20th of last month :-)<br><br>Still I like to say plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654519" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654519" href="http://gamehawk.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">gamehawk</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654519" class="dsq-comment-message">This is crazy, they\'re actually promoting Apple and doing things that legitimately can be used by its products and they get sued.  Of course this shouldn\'t really come as a surprise, Jobs has the ego the size of Texas.  Apple is always overprotective with, and control every aspect of their products.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>gamehawk</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654515" href="http://www.geise.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PXLated</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654515" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654515" class="dsq-comment-message">It\'s too late to change. The term is being used everywhere and the mainstream is just catching on to it. People/companies need to fight Apple, they\'re being totally bone headed on this one.<br>Robert, show us what the blogsphere can do, mobilize the troops.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654507">Russ Henry</span>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654507" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654507" class="dsq-comment-message">How about<br><br>WINDEOWS?<br>WINDEO? WIN-DEO 2.0? Pronounced like video<br>Geeks shortened quickly to DEO.<br>Deo ?<br>I can hear it now DEO, DEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-O.<br>"Daylight a-comes and you want to DEO."<br>Look out your own Windeo.  Man you guys are gonna have to pay me for some of this stuff ... LOL.<br>Have you seen the new Windeo on channel 9?<br>It\'s about a pod that mophed in through the window.<br>Come on Bill get the brain trust on it.  LoL</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654508" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654508" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654508">Russ Henry</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654508" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654508" class="dsq-comment-message">Don\'t follow.<br>Lead!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654509" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654509" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654509">david</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654509" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654509" class="dsq-comment-message">Companies have to protect their trademarks are they get lost. Ask Hoover how much that has cost them in Great Britain. Is \'Pod\' trademarkable or is it only \'iPod\'?<br><br>For that matter, Scobbie old son, where were you when Microsoft was protecting \'Windows\'? I love how objective you are.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654510" href="http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">paul</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654510" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654510" class="dsq-comment-message">Zunecast</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654506" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654506" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, it\'s no more onerous than when MS went afer Lindows. As David said in 31, when you have a trademark, you <i>must</i> actively protect it or you lose it. There\'s no choice in it. If someone can show that you\'re allowing people to use your trademarks, then you lose them.<br><br>Before you start applying moral judgements to actions, perhaps, and here\'s a wild thought, how about you do a little fact checking...oh wait, yeah, you and the whole fact checking thing.<br><br>EVERY company has to do this to protect their trademark, even MS. Amazing how you seem to forget that.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654503" href="http://gwhiz.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">gwhiz</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654503" class="dsq-comment-message">Mr. Welch, They may "have" to defend their IP. Personally I think they\'re overreaching their IP and playing the heavy. There\'s no way they win this round. It\'s  way too far out ahead of them.<br><br>And, if you have any history to you at all, you\'ll know Mr. Scoble clearly understands the IP sphere from the recent dust up over O\'Reilly\'s "Web 2.0 (r)" conference mess.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654502">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654502" class="dsq-comment-message">While I think Podcast has too much sticking power, Videocast, or Audiocast is a better descriptional term. And the industry as a whole needs to get over the "Pod" hype, bad naming to start with.<br><br>Broadcast, Videocast, Audiocast - keeps within the format, and doesn\'t narrow to "net", for what if you decided to cut the \'Scoble Show\' to DVD. And I am against "vlog" or anything "blogging", as it will instantly create negative marketing perceptions.<br><br>Some of this video stuff is getting really really good, the early cheap consumer camera, shaky-cam days are fading away. Sure you will always have the YouTubers, while Hollywood is distant marker away, but the stuff in the middle is starting to really kick up some real quality niche programming. And gotta give props, the Scoble Show productional quality has really improved, this ain\'t no Channel 9\'isms.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654499">BlogReader</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654499" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree with the above post -- call it a Zunecast.  Microsoft would love the publicity.<br><br>Apple (and the courts) should be able to differentiate between a generic term \'podcast\' to something that is ripping off their brand, ie \'ePodThingee\'</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654498" href="http://pinkforoctober.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matthew Oliphant</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654498" class="dsq-comment-message">We could really piss Apple off and start calling both video and audio, "iCast."  But I suppose that would just be asking for trouble.<br><br>We could start a class action against Apple on behalf of the MacIntosh clan.<br><br>We could not worry about what to call them and allow the presentation method, the file format, and the software needed to communicate to the users the medium.<br><br>What about broadcasts that focus on growing peas? Did Apple trademark peapods?  They\'re branching out into the vegetable world after trademarking fruit?<br><br>The reality is probably that everyone using "pod" in some way needs to start making plans to change to something else. At least initially we likely don\'t all need to agree on a naming convention; just call it what you want. Audcast, vidcast, broadcast, show, this thing I did... they\'re all good.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654495">Tom B</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654495" class="dsq-comment-message">What would happen if people just said "no" to Apple. If this issue was about "iPodcasts" I could see where Apple would have some substance behind their requests to stop using the term, but surely they have no right to the term Podcast. Apple definitely did not come up with that. Did they somehow come up with the rights to it? I don\'t know, but I think that not only is it ridiculously petty but they could easily lose the fight if people don\'t back down. And the people shouldn\'t back down in my opinion.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654497">Miles Archer</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654497" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654497" class="dsq-comment-message">What\'s wrong with Video without the cast?</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654496">Russ Henry</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654496" class="dsq-comment-message">Sign up now to win a new "DEO"<br>Win-DEO video camera.<br>Google <a href="http://Win-deo.com" rel="nofollow">Win-deo.com</a>  hurry before it is to late and someone snatches it up.<br>LOL</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654494" href="http://podslug.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Erik Herz</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654494" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654494" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think that folks should stop using "podcast" but the term "webcast" has been around for some time now (well before podcast). I think it works.<br><br>Perhaps Ween can claim prior art with their 1991 "The Pod" album.<br><br>Do all of the cetaceans need to get a new name for their club?<br><br>When will it stop?<br><br>Erik</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654492" href="http://sebmos.at/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sebastian</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654492" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654492" class="dsq-comment-message">"Video Cast" is cool. In fact, anything featuring the word "video" is necessary, because Podcast is, well not saying a lot for the average dude. (Which is in the end the target audience for PodTech, I\'m sure)<br><br>But, especially you should care for a name that makes your company name still sound good. PodTech sounds like they are the creator of the original podcast-idea... :)</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654491" href="http://ferodynamics.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pj</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654491" class="dsq-comment-message">Quick, register <a href="http://p0dc4s7.com" rel="nofollow">p0dc4s7.com</a></div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654490">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654490" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654490" class="dsq-comment-message">I see Scoble has not responded to the many examples where his former employer sent their goons after anyone that used a brand that even vaguely resembled Windows or Office.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654489">Frank Ferter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654489" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654489" class="dsq-comment-message">What about Podtech, yiu guys goin to change your name? Scobletech? Apple-sued-Me-Tech? Ha ha ha.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654488">Joe</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654488" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654488" class="dsq-comment-message">Since when can any company use Kleenex on their product packaging or in their advertising?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654483" href="http://www.puranijeansaurguitar.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Balaji M</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654483" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654483" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree. I have never liked companies who think they are bigger than customers and apple definitely is up there somewhere in that regard.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654480">Dan</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654480" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654480" class="dsq-comment-message">Great job, Robert-- you basically just zeroed out any brand identity that PodTech was going to have!  Why did they hire you, again?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654477" href="http://mickeleh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Michael Markman</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654477" class="dsq-comment-message">As far as I can see, Apple seems fine with podcast as a generic term. The companies they are going after all construct trademarks incorporating "Pod" "iPod" or "Podcast"<br><br>I would think it\'s to Apple\'s advantage to keep "podcast" in circulation as a generic name, since it implies that you need an iPod to listen to them. It serves as an inducement for people to buy iPods. (Leo says a couple of folks told him they couldn\'t listen to his podcast because they didn\'t have iPods. I\'ve also heard that from folks I know.)<br><br>BTW Jake, Apple has filed for a trademark on POD in the U.S. (Serial Number 78521891; filed July 1994). it hasn\'t been granted, yet.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654476" href="http://www.johnswords.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John Swords</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654476" class="dsq-comment-message">I understand why Apple would want to protect their imaginative word "Podcast" from being *abused* by another manufacturer of portable audio players and other online music stores.<br><br>But, I have a problem with Apple trying to take away the word that has been adopted by all content creators of this medium.<br><br>As a podcast producer that does not gain to profit directly from the use of the word, I will not be changing to a word with less market penetration until I receive a cease and desist and explore legal options.<br><br>And with that, I am now going to go watch a sad movie I tivo\'ed with a box of kleenex while I eat a pop tart.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654471" href="http://lendingavoice.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eddie Dickey</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654471" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t think it\'s too late to change. The word \'podcast\' is confusing because it makes people think you need an ipod. And if you have to then explain to people how to listen and not use an ipod... you loose them. As Eric says it\'s a Show. We need to decouple the \'show\' from the device that plays it. And we need to have an alternative to itunes as a \'channel\' to get the \'shows\'...</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654472">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654472" class="dsq-comment-message">"Jamie: yeah, but Apple isn’t. They are protecting their trademark, so I say “screw them.” "<br><br>Michael Markman is right. Apple doesn\'t mind the generic term or users using the term. What they mind is lame companies with no brand of their own incorporating "pod" specifically into their own name and brand to get instant recognition without doing any of the work.<br><br>They most certainly do have a case in the 2 examples mentioned here. It is quite clear what these companies/products are referencing, what their intent is here. And it is not destinct from Apple\'s iPod at all.<br><br><br>And, of course, Scoble has had this lame "renaming" conversation before... each time he failed and he had finally had given in. Now he starts it up again a year later? Yeah, if you can\'t get a new name to stick 5 months into something, maybe it\'ll work a year and a half into it. Pathetic.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654470">GeorgeD</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654470" class="dsq-comment-message">Audiocast, Videocast - who talks like that? Why not Talkcast and Seecast.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654458" href="http://blog.macb.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">macbeach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654458" class="dsq-comment-message">I think Apple is forever destined to shoot themselves in the foot whenever they get a good thing going.  I think they no longer deserve the free advertising that goes along with anything containing "pod", so I agree with #5<br><br>And that was even before I knew about the lawyers... From now on, foot doctors shall be known as "Foot Doctors". and when we speak of two peas being in something it shall be know as a pea holder.<br><br>With their transition to "just another Dell clone" complete and the ("i" + "syn:FootDoctor"-"iatrist") now becoming a commodity device I predict no more than two quarters before people begin to puzzle over what is happening to their bottom line (the accountants can cook the books for a while and I bet there is some of that going on already.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654461" href="http://radaronpaws.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">radaronpaws</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654461" class="dsq-comment-message">This is stupid and short sighted... as for this comment:<br><br>"hmmm…. wen “blog” itself isnt really a standard term yet, I think its premature to think of others… however “vblog” or “ablog” seems more relevant than “podcast”…"<br><br>and all the others calling for names like blogcast, blogging and podcasting are totally different. A video podcast is not necessarily a video blog. It\'s more closely related to a tv show on the web, quite frankly.<br><br>I think using the term blog in association with what we now call podcasts is stupid. It\'s not equivalent, nor should it be. I always rejected the term "vlog" anyway.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654460" href="http://radaronpaws.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">radaronpaws</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654460" class="dsq-comment-message">@Goebbels:<br><br>"And, of course, Scoble has had this lame “renaming” conversation before… each time he failed and he had finally had given in. Now he starts it up again a year later? Yeah, if you can’t get a new name to stick 5 months into something, maybe it’ll work a year and a half into it. Pathetic."<br><br>What a jackass. If you disagree, just disagree. Pathetic is as pathetic does. Besides, it looks like he had a point, doesn\'t it, considering the current situation with Apple going freaky over the word podcast?</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654462" href="http://somethingthathappened.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Harold J. Johnson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654462" class="dsq-comment-message">People (like me) have been using audiocast and videocast for a *long* time; this isn\'t nothing new.  Still, we could use some Big Namess (like Scoble\'s) to push the terms.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654466" href="http://devilcatz.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">IcArUs`</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654466" class="dsq-comment-message">apple is power n $ straved... in sure every1 for $</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654465">alex santos</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654465" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654465" class="dsq-comment-message">I think their approach is a bad one and not a very smart move. I think Apple should allow the term podcast to be as wide spread as possible, after all it links back to the ipod somehow.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654464">rob enderle</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654464" class="dsq-comment-message">How about and FU cast for Leo?<br><br>Dont let the "I really didnt like the name" stance fool anyone.<br>Leo knows the game well and has no need to fight this and in the same process cut his cozy Apple tie ins.<br><br>There are reasons why we should and shouldnt use the term but Laporte has a vested interest in NOT shaking the boat so Ill skip on his opinion.<br><br>I can not understand the Apple decision since the word association really HELPS them but I never thought Apple to be much different than Microsoft in its approach and actually as their history of lawsuits has shown, they are closer to the Scientologists with rabid fans and lawyers.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654533" href="http://bananasfk.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bananasfk</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654533" class="dsq-comment-message">The american pto employs retards - you didnt discuss web 2.0 getting marked by O\'reilly (book publishers).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654528" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654528" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654528" href="http://blogs.opml.org/tommorris/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tom Morris</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654528" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654528" class="dsq-comment-message">One word: "feedcast".<br><br>And a downvote for "vlog". Too Russian for our mixed Germanic and Romantic language. It sounds horrible and has about the same feeling inside one\'s mouth as a urine-soaked cockroach.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654525" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654525" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654525">cross</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654525" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654525" class="dsq-comment-message">cast, its just a cast, you can tell what kind when i say i watched it or that you should hear it. mostly you wouldn\'t care what kind it was  - just why it was good or bad.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654521" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654521" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654521" href="http://reverendted.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ted Haeger</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654521" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654521" class="dsq-comment-message">Whoa, daddy-o! That\'s seriously wrong. They didn\'t even invent the term. &gt;grumble, grumble</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654520" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654520" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654520">someone</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654520" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654520" class="dsq-comment-message">Short answer, probably. The full legal name is podtech networks. The "pod" in the name includes a significant portion of the ipod trademark, and the context for the service your company is offering could be confused with services provided by Apple Inc.<br><br>At first I also thought that Apple could not claim this because the class was slightly different, but not now.<br><br>ipod is a VERY strong mark. "famous" as it were. If they challenge the company and they don\'t back down, they will have to re-emburse legal fees to apple when they lose. It\'s a risk you have to calculate.<br><br>On the surface it would seem easy, but it\'s not. Hey, the name is free, just take it right. Nope. You really do have to have the strongest use of the mark in the class.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654514" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654514" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654514" href="http://www.podcastbuffet.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Erik Blakkestad</a>\
	 </cite>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654514" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654514" class="dsq-comment-message">Who would have thought ten years ago that today Bill Gates is the Baby Jesus (due to his incredible philanthropy efforts) and Steve Jobs turned to the darkside to become the friggin\' anti-christ!<br><br>What the hell are they thinking? They manufacture computers and mp3 players. They......had the mystique of being cool (the holy grail of marketing). Now that\'s all down the shitter. That Samsung Rhapsody player is looking "cooler" every day.<br><br>As far as a name, since podcasts are similar to a radio program or tv program, let\'s call it a ProgramCast.<br><br>Still has a ring to it, eh?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654512" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654512" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654512" href="http://amp1985.stumbleupon.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">amp1985</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654512" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654512" class="dsq-comment-message">Who owns the word "Cast"?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654500" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654500" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654500">H</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654500" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654500" class="dsq-comment-message">Jamie: yeah, but Apple isn’t. They are protecting their trademark, so I say “screw them.”<br><br>@Scoble: This coming from a former MS Eichmann.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654501" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654501" href="http://sparksengr.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">shravan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654501" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654501" class="dsq-comment-message">Do they own the word "pod"?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654481" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654481" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654481" href="http://dan100.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dan G</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654481" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654481" class="dsq-comment-message">"Podcast" is here to stay.<br><br>Even the BBC uses the term!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654511" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654511" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654511">someone</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654511" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654511" class="dsq-comment-message">"Do they own the word “pod”?"<br><br>No they don\'t, but people including podtechnetworks and other products are using 75% of "ipod" in conjunction with services that could be confused with services provided by apple under the trademark. ipod is a device, but I believe it\'s listed in several classes.<br><br>This threw a wrench in many people\'s plans, not just podtechnetworks or the game counting device.<br><br>It would be like calling your new site googltech networks. Yes, the e is missing, yes, you will probably be harassed by google inc. Yes google is a commonly used word synonymous with web search.<br><br>POD also means point of delivery. If the mark is used in that way, I doubt apple could do anything unless it was used in conjunction with services they provide.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654513" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654513" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654513">brad</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654513" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654513" class="dsq-comment-message">So as Microsoft tries to become less evil, Apple becomes more. I wonder if Apple will keep getting a free pass over stuff like this as they expand these lawsuits, release more bugfests like iTunes, etc.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654504" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654504" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654504" href="http://www.podcastnyc.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rob Safuto</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654504" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654504" class="dsq-comment-message">Forget changing the name. Let\'s rain down jeers on the Apple Representative who accepts the Directory of the Year award at the Podcast Expo this coming Friday night.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654505" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654505" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654505">Christopher Coulter</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654505" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654505" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>That way I can say to my friends “hey, did you see Ze Frank’s latest videocast?”</i><br><br>After reco\'ing Ze Frank, they might not BE your friends anymore. ;)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654493" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654493" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654493" href="http://www.greatapps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John Wilson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654493" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654493" class="dsq-comment-message">Re Apple, just you imagine who is on the list for the legal dept<br>- NASA, who have escape "pods" on their rockets &amp; shuttles, as well as George Lucas for having the same in the original Star Wars<br>- Any musician that plays Tunes<br>- anyone that refers to themselves as "I"<br><br>This is truely a capital value play of immense proportions.<br><br>Odd, some companies would be delighted to have a verb &amp; noun reminding us of their products (especially after already having a very popular fruit!).  I guess flattery just doesn\'t pay the bills, which must be a worry in the Jobs household.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654487" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654487" href="http://www.greatapps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John Wilson</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654487" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654487" class="dsq-comment-message">Meant to add, do you think Apple got the idea from Mike Arrington ;-)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654486" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654486" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654486">HC</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654486" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654486" class="dsq-comment-message">See if this lights any bulbs:<br><br><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1252" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=1252</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654484" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654484">Schuyler</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654484" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654484" class="dsq-comment-message">Too late.  Words have meaning whether they are intrinsically descriptive or not.  The social forces that mingle to create new words are too strong to counter.  Podcast already has a meaning and that\'s not going to change no matter how many well-meaning technologists try to change it.<br><br>You may have noticed that it\'s just as impossible to rename an even lesser-known term like "RSS".  And in the world of Internet search you would end up doing everyone a disservice if you started posting about "netcasting".</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654475" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654475" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654475" href="http://podcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">kosso</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654475" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654475" class="dsq-comment-message">Oh nuts!!!! :( grrrrr<br><br>Lets all thrash this out at the portable media expo next week.<br><br>DOWN WITH APPLE!<br><br>anyone want a cool domain name? ;) *joke* heh</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654474">Escamillo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654474" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654474" class="dsq-comment-message">I always thought that "podcast" was a stupid name for the following reasons:<br>1. It incorrectly associates the technology with a specific brand of portable media player.  This unfairly hurts iPod competitors.  It also hurts Apple in that it promotes "pod" being a generic term for something that is not always iPod (i.e. it helps sell iPods in the short term, but cheapens the brand name in the long term).<br><br>2. It confuses the populace as it makes people think that an iPod is required to listen/view to "podcasts".  When I first heard the term "podcast" I thought that an iPod was needed, and I\'m not J6P, I\'ve been a tech guy for years.  But it\'s only natural that when first encountering the term, you\'d think that an iPod was a necessary component.<br><br>3. Here\'s the kicker: According to <a href="http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback109.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback109.html</a>, 80% of podcasts are NOT listened to on a portable player; rather, they are listened to on the computer that downloaded them (or are thrown away).  Since only 20% of downloaded "podcasts" are transferred to a portable player of any kind, the term "podcast" is completely idiotic and nonsensical.<br><br>I favor "webcast" at the moment.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654463" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654463">Escamillo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654463" class="dsq-comment-message">To those of you saying that Apple is in the right with their legal threats to companies that use the term "pod" in their names, that\'s beside the point.  Whether Apple is in the right or not (the courts will decide that, I guess), this situation illustrates why a brand-neutral term is required for "RSS Feeds with multimedia enclosures".<br><br>Above, I suggested "webcast", but now I agree with  Tom Morris\' suggestion of "feedcast". :-)<br><br>("blogcast" was suggested above, but that term refers to the subset of "podcasts" that originate from blogs, so it shouldn\'t be the more general term for "podcasts".)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654547" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654547" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654547" href="http://ritchiehughes.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Ritchie Hughes</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654547" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654547" class="dsq-comment-message">Hmm... will they go after the <a href="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=podcast+site%3Abbc.co.uk&amp;mkt=en-GB&amp;FORM=LVCP" rel="nofollow">BBC</a> and <a href="http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=podcast+site%3Anpr.org&amp;mkt=en-GB&amp;FORM=LVCP" rel="nofollow">NPR</a>? (links go to searches for "podcast" on each site)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654549" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654549" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654549">mike</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654549" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654549" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Scoble.. why do they call it a PODcast anyways...<br><br>oh yeah. right.<br><br>As if Apple would ever stop someone from using podcasts... what they\'ll do is threaten their competitors..</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654550" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654550" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654550" href="http://www.digitaltechnews.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tony E</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654550" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654550" class="dsq-comment-message">Will this eventually mean that Microsoft and other companies won\'t be able to use the word "Podcasts" when offering audio and video content for their media players, Media Centers, or mobile phones in the future?<br><br>Let it go Apple.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654551" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654551" href="http://wierszemponobla.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bohor</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654551" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654551" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s shorten it even more. E-cast! M-cast! G-cast Beta!<br>Anyway, noone\'s gonna care if podcast is gonna be changed to mediacast or whatever, everybody will still use id in everyday speech, the internet will still use the terms so that "oldies" can browse for it. It\'s like Sony going after us for saying Walkman at a Panasonic casette player. nobody will care if Apple wins this battle. That is my opinion:)</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654552" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654552" href="http://www.ecademy.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Julian Bond</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654552" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654552" class="dsq-comment-message">Does anyone actually listen to podcasts on an ipod? Or any portable media player?<br><br>RSS enclosures were a great solution to a scarcity problem when bandwidth was expensive. As bandwidth becomes cheaper and more ubiquitous the need to download in background goes away. And it\'s questionable whether it\'s cheaper for the provider to deliver thousands of enclosures that are then discarded or to stream fewer on demand. The one thing that would have changed this dynamic would have been widespread use of BitTorrent as a delivery mechanism.<br><br>So let\'s celebrate audio and video blogging, and the democratisation of audio and video production and back off from promotion of a specific product from a specific company. Especially one that doesn\'t want to be inclusive.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654555" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654555" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654555">Goebbels</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654555" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654555" class="dsq-comment-message">"To those of you saying that Apple is in the right with their legal threats to companies that use the term “pod” in their names, that’s beside the point. Whether Apple is in the right or not (the courts will decide that, I guess), this situation illustrates why a brand-neutral term is required for “RSS Feeds with multimedia enclosures”. "<br><br>That\'s exactly the point and why defending Apple is not besides the point. Apple is not going after companies using it in a brand-neutral manner to describe a technology. They are going after companies who are trying to use the term to create a brand for themselves. People are claiming the debate is: Apple is evil; they are going after anyone using "podcast." This is not true. The debate should be: why can these companies not create their own brand, why can\'t they create a company or product name that doesn\'t reference the generic field they are in? That\'s the debate as I see it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654556" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654556" href="http://podcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">kosso</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654556" class="dsq-comment-message">Some more thoughts:<br>- Maybe we need to drop the \'cast\' bit too?<br>- P O D in podcast  - for me - has always meant \'Portable On Demand\'<br>- Many people I speak to think you need an iPod to consume podcasts<br>- Many iPod users hate their iPods as they trash content.<br>- I think we need to distiguish between audio and video - and other media formats  - is \'media\' the word to use?<br><br>- It needs to \'sound\' automatic and easy<br>- It uses feeds<br>- It can be consumed where you like (desktop or portable) - and WHENEVER you want - on demand<br><br>- I agree with Dave Winer that we need to get together and produce/define our own media player/recorder. Screw Apple. Their products might look good, but they simply are NOT THAT good, when you have tried alot of the competition.<br><br><br>As far as I know, Apple have not contacted us - yet  (<a href="http://podcast.com" rel="nofollow">podcast.com</a>)  - but then we\'re still (just) pre-beta</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654557" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654557" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654557" href="http://flyovermarketing.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Behringer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654557" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654557" class="dsq-comment-message">I say we give Apple what they want.<br><br>We stop using Podcast.<br><br>What about "AppleSucksCast"?<br>"BiteMeSteveJobsCast"?<br>"TakingAPageFromTheGoogleHandbookCast"?<br>"ThanksForYourMoneyNowBendOverCast"?<br><br>It used to be, when I was in college that people WANTED to have their name/brand/product used as the word for a generic item (think Kleenex)<br><br>Why is Apple so opposed to holding such a tight grip on simple words...especially when they benefit from it.  How many people assume that you need an iPod to listen to them.  I wonder how many have bought an iPod for that reason?<br><br>The other question is why do people keep worshiping Apple when they pull this type of stuff?<br><br>What about calling it a "WindowsCast" or "MSCast?" Really stick it to Apple.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654560" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654560" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654560" href="http://levelup.tv/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Paul Kerton</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654560" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654560" class="dsq-comment-message">Or, how about the members with gravitas in the podcast community, including yourself and Leo, alongside the EFF, fight this off and make a fuss about it, get it in the general press instead of running to the hills with your tails between your legs?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654562" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654562" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654562" href="http://www.zunerama.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">frabgod</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654562" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654562" class="dsq-comment-message">Apple\'s corporate counsel must be paid by the hour. This makes no sense as a strategy for Apple.<br><br>Most companies would kill to have a category-defining brand name like Vice-Grips, Crescent wrench, Ziploc, Kleenex, etc.<br><br>Apple has tremendous branding in the term podcast. Now they want to restrict its use. Unbelievable.<br><br>- frabgod<br><a href="http://www.zunerama.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.zunerama.com</a></div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654564" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654564">Escamillo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654564" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654564" class="dsq-comment-message">"Apple is not going after companies using it in a brand-neutral manner to describe a technology. They are going after companies who are trying to use the term to create a brand for themselves."<br><br>That Apple is going after *anybody* is evidence that we need a new, brand-neutral, term.<br><br><br><br>"why can these companies not create their own brand, why can’t they create a company or product name that doesn’t reference the generic field they are in? That’s the debate as I see it."<br><br>That is idiocy.  That would mean that Microsoft shouldn\'t use the word "soft" in their name because it refers to the generic field that they are in ("software").  Come on, now.<br><br>BTW, Apple didn\'t invent "podcasting", so why should they have any higher claim to the term than anyone else?  I don\'t think Apple has any claime to "Pod" eitehr, except in the market for portable media players.  So companies like Pod Tech, which use the word "POD" but don\'t make portable players (so "pod" refers to "podcasting" and shouldn\'t be confused with "iPod") should be free to use the word.  You and Apple disagree.  That means that a new term is required.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654565" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654565">Escamillo</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654565" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654565" class="dsq-comment-message">"Most companies would kill to have a category-defining brand name like Vice-Grips, Crescent wrench, Ziploc, Kleenex, etc."<br><br>Well, that\'s good in the short term, but dilutes the brand name in the long term.  Today, when someone goes to the store with the intent to get a box of "Kleenex", there\'s a good chance they\'ll actually buy some other tissue paper, and still call it "Kleenex".  That doesn\'t help the "Kleenex" company any.<br><br>"iPod" isn\'t at that stage yet.  "iPod" everyday becomes more and more generic as a term to mean "portalbe digital media player", but not to the point where people go to the store to get an iPod and get a Zune, Gigabeat, Sansa, Zen, etc while still calling it "iPod".  Right now, the term "iPod" still does wonders for Apple (as "Kleenex" did back in the day), but I can see why Apple wouldn\'t want the "iPod" to get diluted.  (I still say that while they may have a trademark claim to the term "pod" wrt portable players, they have no claim to the term "Pod" wrt "podcasting" as they didn\'t invent podcasting nor did they even invent the term "podcasting".)<br><br>A couple of other tech terms that may become "generic" in the future:<br>Google: could become generic for "internet search" someday (it\'s not that today, I don\'t think).<br><br>PowerPoint: seems that all presentations are called "PowerPoint" regardless of what software made them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654568" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654568" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654568" href="http://zach.e53.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Zach</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654568" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654568" class="dsq-comment-message">How about we tell Apple to go...fly a kite?  Jump off a cliff?  Get lost? STFU?  Or of course.. you could just give in and change the name.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654572" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654572" href="http://www.zunemax.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Zune MAX</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654572" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654572" class="dsq-comment-message">I think audiocast and videocast are perfect choices. netcast is so 90\'s and podcast is misleading. audiocast and videocast are clear concise and easy to switch over to</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654573" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654573">Fraser</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654573" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654573" class="dsq-comment-message">How about Audcast and Vidcast. The cool thing is that Audcast kind of sounds like Podcast.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654570" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654570" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654570">Podesta</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654570" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654570" class="dsq-comment-message">I opened this entry with more than 100 comments expecting there would be some substance to it.  There is not.   If a cease and desist letter exists (notice that the complainer has not posted one) it is directed at people who try to use the term Podcast for commercial purposes.   \'Podcast Ready\' may be a target because it seeks to compete with iTS in a way that might confuse downloaders.  It should differentiate itself, making clear that it is an alternative, not iTM\'s podcast service.  As for the everyday use of the term \'podcast,\' trademark protection is not about that.  The general public is completely free to use the word \'podcast.\'<br><br>This thread did give Windows fanboys who hate the fact that Apple owns the digital download and digital players markets a chance to show their asses.  Otherwise, it is a waste of time.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654559" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654559" href="http://bryteline.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">bryteline</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654559" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654559" class="dsq-comment-message">apple is becoming microsoft... shudder.<br><br>getting up in arms about the term "podcast" seems as well-grounded as getting up in arms about the term "blog."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654558" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654558" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654558" href="http://skillbarters.nevinsmanafe.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">nevins manafe</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654558" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654558" class="dsq-comment-message">youre right!</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654571" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654571" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654571" href="http://print.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">print</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654571" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654571" class="dsq-comment-message">What gets me is when people make a big fuss that \'netcast\' and \'audiocast\' are their views and their ideas. Podcasting is a stupid word and I have stated that on many occasions. It does nothing more than add more baggage to technology and more layers of jargon for people to penetrate / congratulate themselves on.<br><br>I can\'t fucking believe people are just waking up to this.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654569" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654569" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654569">Chris</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654569" class="dsq-comment-message">Mosely Vs. Secret Catalogue.<br><br>This is will help decide all trademark dilution. The case is to solve the conflict on the interpretation of the FTDA- to see if there was economic harm to prove “dilution under the FTDA.” Trademark law is part of a broader law regarding English common law in the Trademark Act of 1946. But prohibitions against “trademark dilution” are not part of common law. The law passed by congress definitely needs to demonstrate “actual dilution” rather than the likelihood of dilution.<br> The key legal issue in this case regarding the meaning of the FTDA is “mental association” does not reduce the capacity of the famous brand to identify its good, which is what the FTDA requires. The Supreme Court decided regarding this issue that there is not enough evidence to support the judgment on the dilution count. If a consumer can distinguish from one product to the other then there isn\'t enough evidence to support dilution on the trademark. Apple is not to smart to take on this supreme court decision.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654567" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654567" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654567" href="http://www.podcast411.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rob @ podcast411</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654567" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654567" class="dsq-comment-message"><a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/podcast411/411_060925.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://media.libsyn.com/media/podcast411/411_06...</a><br><br>Rob,<br><br>I am disappointed in how much you really missed this story by.<br><br>I did some journalism work on this and got to the heart of the story - you can hear it at the link above.<br><br>Rob @ podCast411</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654554" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654554" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654554">BillB</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654554" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654554" class="dsq-comment-message">Apple might as well insist podiatrists rename their profession to footology.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654553" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654553" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654553" href="http://dbweb.org/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dmitri</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654553" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654553" class="dsq-comment-message">How would apple like it if we all started saying . . .<br><br>ZUNECAST.<br><br>See how they like their free brand-building going to the competition!<br><br>Totally Hapless.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654544">m00</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654544" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654544" class="dsq-comment-message">There are several seemingly mutually contradictory strategies to be adopted:<br>1) Inertia. Example: podcast.<br>2) Respect Apple\'s position and acknowledge their exclusive rights to dictate how the word "pod" may and may not be used. Example: netcast, mediacast.<br>3) Use the rename as an excuse to bring attention to Apple\'s disgraceful conduct. Example: zunecast, stevejobscankissmyhairybuttcast.<br><br>We can unify all three strategies by calling it a p*dcast (pronounced "podcast", and spelled with an asterisk).</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654543" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654543" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654543" href="http://pxltd.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Stephen</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654543" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654543" class="dsq-comment-message">Hey Robert, just drop the \'O\' in the written version and keep the great logo and call it PDTech.  Or like m00 says.  Everyone who knew it before will still refer to it as podtech.  Kind of like short form on a licence plate...</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654542" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654542" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654542" href="http://www.itedge.net/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jason Hartley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654542" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654542" class="dsq-comment-message">Time to start considering using the term MODCast "Media On Demand" Cast. It seems like a better option than VODCast or AUDcast which the description is to limiting by describing the type of program (video/audio). This is still short, simple, and easy to remember. It should also help clairify that you don\'t need an "iPod" in order to download and listen to or view the media, which many consumer still misunderstand.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654566" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654566" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654566">tj</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654566" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654566" class="dsq-comment-message">I agree that it would be pointless to try and change the use of "podcast" now - - it\'s in the vernacular and minus perhaps a BIG marketing investment, that seems unlikely to change.<br><br>My inner geek is compelled to point out, tho, that the posting of media "casts" (aud/vid/whatever) to the net is NOT what\'s new - hell, we\'ve been doing that for well over a decade.<br><br>It\'s the fully personal, customized, seamless, time-shifted aggregation of said media.  There\'s even already a word for it:  broadcatching.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcatching" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcatching</a><br><br>fwiw.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654563" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654563" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654563" href="http://www.feverishmind.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kai</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654563" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654563" class="dsq-comment-message">Or we could go further back revisit \'Push\' ... perhaps calling it \'Pull technology\' ?<br><br>Pullcast... ah... isn\'t this thread dead yet?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654548" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654548" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654548" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654548" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654548" class="dsq-comment-message">So RObert, now that the C&amp;D letter was actually posted on this whole mess, are you planning on another post talking about how Apple wasn\'t ACTUALLY going after them for "podcast"?<br><br>Or are you content to let inaccurate postings rule yet again.<br><br>You know how I tell you "You should do better with that fact gathering, you tend to burn yourself when you don\'t" and you reply "Screw you, I\'m not waiting, i know i\'m right this time", and you rarely are?<br><br>Has it ever occured to you that maybe your way kinda sucks here?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654546" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654546" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654546" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654546" class="dsq-comment-message">John: this is why I have open comments, so the record gets corrected by you. Yes, they are going after people who are using the word "pod."<br><br>The point still stands. Last time I checked "pod" is part of "podtech." And it also is part of "podcasting."</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654545" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654545" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654545" href="http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ajcann</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654545" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654545" class="dsq-comment-message">The thing which distringuished _casting is the use of a feed, so it\'s FEEDCAST!<br>How do I trademark that?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654485" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654485" href="http://texturbation.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kevin Murphy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654485" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654485" class="dsq-comment-message">I still haven\'t figured out why they\'re called Podcasts anyway. Back in the first bubble they were called "MP3s".</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654482" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654482" href="http://www.missbhavens.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">missbhavens</a>\
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	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654482" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654482" class="dsq-comment-message">eeeek. Well I\'m torn. I never liked how "podcast" was inadvertently associated with ipods. Anytime I\'ve ever said the word "podcast" to someone who does not know what it is immediately assumes that you need an ipod to listen to it. This has never stopped me from using the termmm...it\'s way too late. It has seeped into the vernacular and Apple couldn\'t pry it out with a crowbar. And even though I never liked "vlog" as a word--your mouth just trips on it-- I have to reject "vidcast" because it leaves out the "blog" aspect of what so many people out there are doing. I always went with "videoblog", which leaves everything else to be described as "video on a website". Clunky, I know, but that\'s what it is. "Vodcast"? Jesus, no, please. What\'s a "vod"? It\'s still reminiscent of "pod". Perhaps videoblogs should be called "me-casts"?<br><br>The only logical way to distinguish audio podcasts from video podcasts is to call them exactly that for as long as we\'re allowed to, which will be forever because I doubt Apple will expend too much time &amp; energy suing little people over "podcast". Using "pod" within the name of companies and products not sanctioned by Apple is, unfortunately, another story.<br><br>All these terms (vidcast, vlog, podcast, webcast, pidcast, poo-cast) are completely random anyhow. We can call these shows-on-the-web anything we please. I think I\'ll start calling my video podcast "pancake" because I really like pancakes.<br><br>Oh, fine, fine. I won\'t. I\'ll call it something non-pod-related that somehow describes what it is without giving a hint as to its content:<br><br>CompVid.<br><br>There.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654479">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654479" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654479" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654479" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654479" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654479" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, if you seriously think that people are naive enough to think that comments get the same ranking as your headlines, then either:<br><br>a) People are dumber than even I thought<br><br>b) You have an even lower opinion of them than I had thought<br><br>c) all of the above.<br><br>As well, other than this case, which has as much to do with what mypodder DOES as anything else, I find it astonishing that we\'ve not seen a massive flood of C&amp;D letters. maybe a handful. At most.<br><br>By your accusation, Apple would be having to flood everyone from you to Birdseye. Yet, that doesn\'t seem to be happening.<br><br>mypodder, being software that interacts with an iPod is really dancing on the line there, and that then brings all their other products into a big thorny trademark questions.<br><br>However, you didn\'t bother to get ANY of the facts yourself. You saw a nice juicy headline, and Dvoraked it.<br><br>Way to go Snap-On.</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654478">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654478" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654478" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654478" href="http://www.techipedia.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">tamar</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654478" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654478" class="dsq-comment-message">I personally like "podcast."  Netcast, mediacast, webast... those just don\'t sound as catchy.  "Podcast" is like a whole new generation of flavors.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654459">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654459" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654459" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654459">Jorgie</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654459" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654459" class="dsq-comment-message">13 comments? Holy s**t.<br><br>Anyway. If the name is going to change, they need to drop the *cast* part too. It implies *push* technology, not *pull*.<br><br>*Cast* implies that you need to be there at a certain time or you will miss it.<br><br>I vote for *audiofeed*, or *issue*, or *web program* or just about anything else that does not contain *POD* or *CAST*!</div>\
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	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654574">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654574" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654574" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654574" href="http://nakedconversations.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">shel israel</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654574" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654574" class="dsq-comment-message">Why doesn\'t Apple just change it\'s name to something new?  I suggest iPud.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654575">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654575" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654575" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654575">hillary</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654575" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654575" class="dsq-comment-message">i\'m late to the discussion here... long time reader, first time poster.  :)<br><br>just wanted to "third" the suggestion of FEEDCAST.  i\'ve seen it floating around a handful of places, and i think that\'s the term that makes the most sense.<br><br>i agree with leo, let\'s move on from "podcast." and as a PC gal, i\'m happy to stop giving apple the free marketing!</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654576">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654576" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654576" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654576">Buddy Serhus</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654576" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654576" class="dsq-comment-message">MS was 1st to Patent Podcast, says NYT.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654577">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654577" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654577" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654577">AppleIsEvil</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654577" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654577" class="dsq-comment-message">Let\'s just call them "casts".<br><br>I listened to the cast on Apple\'s litigation processes, have you seen the cast on iPod sweatshop conditions... It will be fine. Because of the popularity of Youtube, video casts might end up being called tubes. Casts and tubes, it\'s all fine.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654578">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654578" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654578" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9654578" href="http://www.portraitkingdom.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">portrait painting</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654578" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654578" class="dsq-comment-message">This should have been prevented if people were only conscious about copyrights and intellectual rights property.  But in fairness to other companies, I think Apple should be a little considerate and investigate more prior to submitting a case or complaint.  Because the more that we run after anyone in order to pull them down so we can rise above, the more that we will sink.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9654579">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9654579" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9654579" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9654579">baceman007</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9654579" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9654579" class="dsq-comment-message">Suing bloggers is just ridiculous. What is Apple going to start doing, suing people for speaking about their products in public too? That\'s essentially what a blog is. Not only is it a gross violation of 1st Amendment rights to sue bloggers, it also makes me think that they\'re covering something up. Why not let people talk about their products? If they\'re built well they\'ll stand up to commentary. Perhaps in a year when they\'ve had widespread MacBook Seagate HDD issues, tried to sue bloggers, and released Leopard with many bugs before it was ready they fell it necessary to attack their customers. Still, in general, any publicity is good publicity. As one blogger said on another site "I still love Apple even when they\'re suing us," or something of that nature. As dumb as I think it is to protect a company that violates your 1st amendment rights, we have to remember that in the end Winston loved Big Brother. Anyway, when consumers talk about Apple products it is good for other consumer. Consumers should demand their rights to talk about companies that they buy products from so they can hold those companies accountable when they release crap and over charge for it. This should be a basic consumer right. It drives me nuts that 90% of people can just switch to Linux at this point anyway, but we  continue to put up with Apple\'s iFascist tactics. Oh, I better say in my opinion in case they try to violate my rights. Anyway, if you\'re podcasting you should be able to say podcast. In general you should be able to say it in any way shape or form. If Apple has advertised it it is probably part of public culture anyway. How can you release terminology publicly and then sue for people doing free advertising for you, etc.<br>What a bunch of assholes.</div>\
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	 </li>\
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