Poor Form
I listen to TOPcast, a really great pinball podcast. Clay, the host, is extremely well-informed, and his interviews with people in the industry (or who were in the industry) provide great source material for my pinball wiki project.
It may be hard for some of you reading this to believe, but there is actually more than one pinball podcast out there, and I guess the competition is pretty fierce — enough to try gaming the search engines, apparently. I was doing a bit of recreational searching tonight when I found this:
And it’s not enough to try to capture searches on TOPcast, arguably the best pinball podcast. No, Talk Pinball is also trying to game the searches on RGP Radio Network, arguably the worst (and thankfully defunct) pinball podcast. Surprisingly, it seems to work, though it was at the bottom of the first page of results.
July 9th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Topcast and Talk Pinball are lame shows..
July 9th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Got one to recommend instead, Fred?
August 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
“Talk Pinball is also trying to game the searches on RGP Radio Network, arguably the worst (and thankfully defunct) pinball podcast. Surprisingly, it seems to work, though it was at the bottom of the first page of results.”
It looks as though Topcast is doing the same thing..
http://www.rgpradionetwork.net
http://www.rpgradionetwork.com
http://www.rgpradionetworks.com
So who is in the wrong?
August 16th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Mike — My read on those is that they’re a joke and, more than anything, designed to irritate Gary. See this post by TheKorn. Do you really think TOPcast needs to steal listeners from Gary’s defunct show? Note that those domains (the fake/typo ones that redirect to TOPcast — the middle one is still under Gary’s control) were registered in June, months after the RGP Radio Network show had croaked.
I stand by my original assertion: Talk Pinball is “in the wrong,” as you say.