Rob Cottingham

Meeting your social media humor needs since 1963

Search:

22 Aug 2005

Is iTunes dicking with podcast descriptions?

Bookmark and Share
Category: Blogging; Everything Else; Technology

Okay, I can understand bowdlerizing words like f**k and sh-t and j@k$%m*ckled… but as the son of a Dick (as in “short for Richard”), I’m a little narked at what seems to be going on in this screenshot of the iTunes podcast directory:

The name of the San Francisco Chronicle's ombudsman, Dick Rogers, appears as 'D**k Rogers'

I’m not sure if this silliness is happening at Apple’s end, but the Chronicle’s RSS feed happily uses the D-word without any apparent fear of causing offence.

  • http://www.rabble.ca/columnists Scott Piatkowski

    During the unlamented Mulroney years, the chin seated Paul Dick and Gerry Weiner side by side. As the clerk called out the names for roll call votes, I was always pretty sure that the whole chamber was stiffling a laugh (“… Mr. Weiner… Mr. Dick…”).

    I wonder if the software in question would filter Hansard.

  • http://www.robcottingham.ca/roblog Rob

    Hmm. Maybe Peter Newman’s book will shed a little more light on Mulroo’s motivations…

  • http://www.rabble.ca/columnists Scott Piatkowski

    Some honourable members: Oh oh.

Watch my YouTube channel

Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. Please attribute to Rob Cottingham with a link to the content's original page on this web site. For more information, contact Rob at rob@robcottingham.ca.

Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform

Find out about the other tools this site uses

Get Rob's latest cartoons hot off the press! (How retro is that?)

Subscribe to Noise to Signal by email, and you never need to miss another snort, guffaw, giggle or ironically-raised eyebrow.

Your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner. Be advised, I won't sell, rent, lend or skywrite your email address. That's not how I roll.