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WTF. A company in the US has sucessfully patented the idea of podcasting.

http://www.volomedia.com/blog/2009/07/volomedias-podcasting-patent.php

2003, while it is arguable whether podcasting existed then, one thing for sure which existed is RSS and podcasting requires RSS feeds and the mechanics is not so different from simple RSS feeds of articals.

This patent needs to be revoked same to many US issued internet related patents.

I’ve got a dilemma lately. There is a client whom have asked for several companies to pitch in on a project.

Now what they’re looking for apparently is for IA proposals. I’m sure those who’ve been in the web industry long enough knows that Information Architecture is a service on it’s own. This is because it involves numerous excerises involving groups of people. It is similar to conducting a questionnaire on the street then analysing those results and provide an answer for the client.

How would you go about pitching for such jobs that requests IA proposals? Further more we’re not just talking about a single website, but a number of websites.