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August 26 Podcast Ping's One Year AnniversaryPodcast Ping (http://podcastping.blogspot.com) has been going for more than a year now in it's current format. While I posted a few months before August of last year, most of those tended to just be experiments which would eventually lead into it's current format. I've also posted what will probably be the last Blue Hot Gossip Comedy Show for a while. It takes a lot of work to do and I'm not really seeing any better results than just the Gossip News segments alone. And with The FuMP no longer posting stuff to Podshow, it gets a little harder to find music and I don't see any point in repeating what the FuMP podcasts. I will continue to do The Gossip News on that feed. I also must get back to posting THE UNSTOPPABLE RIDE sometime. I am progressing with the writing of it, but I still need to take some time to record and post it. I'll probably get episodes out in the fall. August 14 Vista GadgetsMy parents replaced their old computer with a new one and it came with Vista. One of the features of Vista is something called "gadgets" which are little utilities placed on the desktop. This is an advanced version of the Win98 active desktop. One of the nice things about the Internet is that there's little need to program because someone probably has already written one. I was able to find a nice utility online that helped create gadgets and a webpage to create the scripts. So I now have gadgets for Podcast Ping and Blue Hot Gossip. They aren't fancy but they show the postings. They can be found on the podcast pages bluehotgossip.blogspot.com and podcastping.blogspot.com respectively on the sidebars under "Subscriptions." August 04 One Year of Podcast PingI'm more or less looking at the one year anniversary of Podcast Ping. The podcast has been going for more than a year now, but I didn't start the current format until August of last year. According to my calculations, my podcast postings, including the Blue Hot Gossip posts, have now been downloaded over 200,000 times, mosty thanks to torrents on Mininova. The Beowulf readings do count for a good chunk of that, but I'm still seeing much higher downloads from the torrents than I would with just the podcast alone.
I've decided to stick with a monthly schedule for Podcast Ping for the time being, mainly because of the time involved. It takes time to find suitable music and I really haven't had the time lately for writing the poetry. That time is better spent on The Unstoppable Ride which is taking me longer to writer than it should. But if I could spend a month or two on poetry it would become much easier to put together enough shows for a weekly schedule again. So the monthly may only be temporary.
I'm also undecided about The Blue Hot Gossip Comedy Show. The main problem is in finding suitable comedy music. I'm trying to avoid the crude comedy songs and there are just too many that really aren't funny. It also appears that The FuMP has stopped posting it's stuff to Podshow which cuts back on what I can use. I'm not sure if any of the FuMP stuff is still podsafe, but I don't want to rely too heavily on it and listeners can access much of that material directly so there's little need to include it. It also takes time to write good comedy routines because they have to be funny and original, but I can usually come up with enough for the podcast. I've also considered switching directions and doing just the news segment since it seems to get just about the same number of downloads.
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