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New years bring new challenges.

One of my first challenges is to look into fixing some now-broken links in my iTunes feed for The RuckuS.  As thos of you who follow my little show know, I released a new episode on December 31st.  As those of you who graciously subscribe to my show via iTunes know, that new show (along with select others) is still not showing up there.

Arrgh!

I suspect that these technical difficulties are being caused by the so-called new-and-improved version of Blogger.  I was having no issues until I switched over to that from their Beta version, and then some new and improved error messages began appearing and now I can't switch back, so I'll have to wait for them to work out the bugs in their bug free system.

But never fear, dear listeners - I've got a backup plan.  My apologies that any of you would need to make these adjustments, but I'm not quite sure what else to do.

If you currently subscribe (or wish to subscribe) to the show via iTunes, check out this link.  If you have iTunes installed on your computer, click on the "Subscribe with iTunes" button - this should launch the program automatically and instruct you further how to add the feed to your podcast list.  If you don't use iTunes, the same link will display alternate formats by which to subscribe.

If you'd rather just listen without downloading anything, the same link provides the means to add my feed to your favorite RSS reader, such as Google or Yahoo.  (I personally love using the Google Reader for this - it brings up a mini-player right on your screen where you can pause, ff, or rewind the shows as well as a link below the player for downloading entire episodes.)  And, of course, at the top of the page, there's the standard RSS feed link just for you.

The subtle differences between this feed and my main feed are these - one, this feed's description file will always point you to whatistheruckus.com for the "Nutrition Facts" of the show and two, this feed will not be found via the iTunes store.

If you have any questions, please let me know.  Again, I'm sorry for these hassles.  Please know that I still plan to post a direct link to each episode on my blog here when I release new content so you always have the option to ignore all of this technical mumbo jumbo and just download the episode directly.

Thanks for your support.
[tR]