Where's that podcast channel?

We've all had that experience "now you see it - now you don't". Occasionally, you may find that some podcast channels are no longer listed within our podcast directory. This can be for a variety of different reasons:

• the podcaster has ceased to provide/update the podcast channel
• there may be technical problems associated with the RSS feed
• the content of the podcasts no longer meets our criteria
• the podcast channel was never listed in the directory
• the podcast channel has been removed for another reason

This process is part of ongoing quality assurance processes, we regularly review the content of our podcast directory - new podcast channels are added and, sometimes, podcast channels are removed. You may also find that not all podcasts associated with a channel are actually listed. As a general rule we maintain a list of up to 25 podcasts though less than this may be displayed on screen. However, displays always include the most recently published podcasts with the newest listed first.

Where a podcast channel and podcasts are no longer listed an advisory notice is now displayed on screen. We trust this is update is helpful to you.

Hosting Outages

Many apologies if you encountered difficulties in accessing our podcast directory website and associated sections during the period 26-27 July 2007. The hosting company we use experienced both hardware and software malfunctions that rendered all Unix servers out of service for an extended period. Major repairs have been implemented and the fact you are no able to read this posting does mean that "normal service has been resumed".

Again, please accept our sincere apologies for any disruption to your use of our website but the causes were totally outside our control.

Service interruptions

Apologies to all visitors and users to the podcast directory who may have experienced some problems when viewing pages during Wednesday 7 February 2007.

Unfortunately, our ISP webservers were experiencing a reare fault where intermittent responses were being made to requests for web pages from web browsers. In some case these would work normally but in others there may only have been partial page content or, worse, a blank page.

We are pleased that these issues have now been resolved and web pages are being processed and sent properly to web browsers.