Oh this is a juicy development, and up to this point I did not know that Kevin Marks had done a demo at Bloggercon in 2003 this is what Kevin is accusing Adam of removing.
“At the BloggerCon Conference in October 2003, [[Kevin Marks]] demonstrated a script to download RSS enclosures to iTunes and synchronize them onto an iPod”
See the edit sequence 1st, 2nd
Being I am fairly certain that this is a true statement, I base this on the fact that I knew who Kevin Marks was long before I had ever head of Adam Curry. (I missed his MTV years while overseas) this effects a couple of paragraphs in my book, this information was not available in February of this year when I was writing the history section too bad really, as the event would have been placed in the correct context. For the life of me though this is the first time I have ever heard this. But I don’t doubt it.
This is one of the problems with Wikipedia anyone can change it and boy when your IP is traced back to you this sure can cause some problems. [Kevin Marks]
http://www.curry.com/2005/12/02
” Yesterday an rss article caught my eye with a reference to the history of podcasting as documented by WikiPedia. I couldn’t believe how convoluted and twisted the history had become, I mentioned on my podcast that neither my or Dave’s work was fairly represented anymore. So I started to edit. After about 20 minutes of trying to figure out the interface of the editing system I became exasperated and gave up. “What was I trying to prove anyway?, I thought to myself. Some of my experimentation resulted in a piece of the wiki entry being edited out. This was about Kevin Mark’s contribution. I wanted to rewrite the paragraph about him as I recalled it, about the discussions we had at BloggerCon and the follow up emails. So, no editing war intended, pilot error. I apologize for any confusion.”
Nice of him to admit it. I think he’s a bit full of himself, but he did own up to it.
Sorry, you said that in the podcast. I was reading the site, before getting a chance to hear the podcast.
Doh!