Pictured above is the Fair to Flair Master Feed. What...

Pictured above is the Fair to Flair Master Feed. What we've got here is a catch 22 of podcast design. 

General wisdom is that a regular podcast feed shouldn't have the title of the podcast at the beginning of every episode. This creates a list of titles like "Aggressive Art - 22 - Randy Savage." This can be difficult for a potential subscriber on, say, the iTunes store or the iPhone, which only gives so many characters for the title. So most podcasters are like myself, where the title of each individual podcast begins with the number and title of the episode (or just the episode). This is also "cleaner," in the eyes of many. 

The problem arises when several podcasts who abide by this general wisdom hook up and do a Master feed, like ours. Jason, Thomas, and myself don't put the podcast title in our episode title. Razor does. In the list, Razor's podcasts are the only ones you can identify right away. 

On the flip side, you wouldn't necessarily want to change it just for the Master feed, because the people subscribed to the individual feeds are likely happy the way they are. You'd also lose that small real estate in iTunes summaries (The Zune software, pictured above, does not have this problem, but the Zune itself has it just as bad). 

Of course, if you're subscribed to the Master feed and want to get everything, this likely doesn't bother you too much. But if it does bother you, let me know. We're always trying to make things better.