Insomnia Radio reports on the problems podcasters are having with RSS. In the post:

Podcast Awards creator Todd Cochrane revealed some rather disturbing statistics regarding the nominations, which reflects pretty poorly on the state of podcasting…

• 78% of the submissions had invalid feeds, according to FeedValidator.org.
• Of the remaining feeds, 96% had glaring errors.
• 42% did not have an RSS feed button on their home page. (gulp)
• 26% did not have a link to the file in their show notes.
• 21% had less than 2 lines of show notes.
• Some feeds were huge, as big as 500K and 367 entries.
• Only 49% of the submissions provide a way to contact the podcaster.
• 200 of the submissions that called themselves podcasts had no podcast feeds.

Running Digital Podcast, I see these kinds of problems all the time and am not very surprised by the data. It just goes to show how much work still needs to be done to make podcasting easy.