I’ve got to say that I’m quite frustrated by the drunken sloth who makes the selections for “featured podcasts” over on iTunes.

We’ve now had the podcast going on the Cruise Planners site for several months, there’ve been some hicups with getting the right feed and the right album art into iTunes, but all of those problems have been fixed for at least two months. We regularly update the podcast, publishing a new show at least once a week, although we normally put up two shows.

So then why is it that we can’t get the show featured in our category on iTunes? The other podcast that comes up when you do a search on “The Mail Buoy” is featured, this dispite the fact that the show is not updated very often at all, the last show was on Dec 9, which was the first update since September. On average they do a show once every month or two, but they’re a featured podcast.

Better yet, of the 90 featured podcasts in the Places & Travel category, 14 of the featured podcasts are Disney related.

Just like Google’s search algorithm, the method iTunes supposedly uses to select featured podcasts is “secret” however unlike Google’s search algorithm which works quite well, iTunes’ feature selection sucks…