OMG will the drama never end. I can’t wait for the mini-series version of the “The Podcast Paternity Wars”:) I invite eveyone who has a claim to the creating podcasting to create their own history of podcasting page at CastWiki. That way we won’t have to be yanked back and forth between competing views of history, we just have to decide which version of the “truth” we want to believe.

Podshow founder, Adam Curry, took the time to read the history of podcasting at Wikipedia and apparently performed an anonymous edit to the history of podcasting to highlight his role in the development of podcasting.

Dave Winer another one of the podfathers commented at his blog Scripting News

In June I wrote People With Erasers about Wikipedia. Now after reading about the Seigenthaler affair, and revelations about Adam Curry’s rewriting of the podcasting history — the bigger problem is that Wikipedia is so often considered authoritative. That must stop now, surely. Every fact in there must be considered partisan, written by someone with a confict of interest. Further, we need to determine what authority means in the age of Internet scholarship. And we need to take a step back and ask if we really want the participants in history to write and rewrite the history. Isn’t there a place in this century for historians, non-participants who observe and report on the events?

And Wikipedia has taken action to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content.

For those that are interested, here’s the changes that were made to WikiPedia:

Wikipedia before the edits:

In September 2003, Winer created an RSS-with-enclosures feed for his Harvard [[Harvard_Law_School|Berkman Center]] colleague [[Christopher Lydon]], a former newspaper and television journalist and [[public radio]] radio talk show host {{ref|lydon_interviews}}. For several months Lydon had been linking full-length MP3 interviews to his Berkman weblog, which focused on blogging and coverage of the 2004 U.S. presidential campaigns. At the first Harvard BloggerCon conference, [[October 4]]-[[October 5]] [[2003]], [[Kevin Marks]] demonstrated a script to download RSS enclosures to iTunes and synchronise them onto an iPod{{ref|bloggercon_2003}}, something [[Adam Curry]] had been doing with Radio Userland and Applescript. Listening to Lydon’s interviews on an iPod helped inspire [[Adam Curry]] to create a feed he called “syncpod,” which was used for testing by Marks, [http://weblogs.cs.cornell.edu/AllThingsDistributed/archives/000256.html Werner Vogels] and other developers at the conference, some of whom became involved in [[open source]] [[iPodder]] development projects.

Curry’s and Winer’s podcasts, including several months of collaboration they called “Trade Secrets,” spread interest in podcasting among other widely-read bloggers. Amateur blogs and open source developers continued as important factors in the popularization of podcasting before and after professional broadcasters and entrepreneurs with business plans adopted the form.

Wikipedia after the edits:

In September 2003, Winer created an RSS-with-enclosures feed for his Harvard [[Harvard_Law_School|Berkman Center]] colleague [[Christopher Lydon]], a former newspaper and television journalist and [[public radio]] radio talk show host {{ref|lydon_interviews}}. For several months Lydon had been linking full-length MP3 interviews to his Berkman weblog, which focused on blogging and coverage of the 2004 U.S. presidential campaigns. Listening to Lydon’s interviews on an iPod helped inspire [[Adam Curry]] to create an applescript that aggregated the mp3 files and loaded them into customized playlists on iTunes that would sync to his iPod. He put this applescript in open source and called it ipodder, at ipodder.org