I've been meaning to get more postings done but I've been too busy with other things lately.

A few things I wanted to cover:
I've switched my main page to http://writerpatrick.webs.com now because Geocities is shutting down. I'm not going to bother recreating the other Geocities pages I had, however most of the videos I had up can now be found on YouTube under Writerpatrick. I'm also not bothering to recreate the list of Saturday Morning TV show previews because someone has already created a Wikipedia entry for it (some time after I had created mine, although Wikipedia didn't exist when I created mine). I may try to do one for Prime Time Previews, or at least re-post that, although I've not had the time to update it lately and there just doesn't seem to be much interest in it. I am going to try to repost the pumpkin pictures, although most should be available throughout this blog. The images shown on the blog are only a partial list, but I might update them with the rest.

If you haven't noticed, I've been producing two podcasts, Podcast Ping found at http://podcastping.blogspot.com and The Blue Hot Gossip podcast at http://bluehotgossip.blogspot.com. I initially was going to do just a gossip column, but I'm more into the comedy shows at the moment. I'm developing a series of specials for Podcast Ping called the 13 Days of Halloween which I'll start releasing on October 19th. I'm also planning to do a Christmas Calendar for Podcast Ping running from December 1st to the 25th. Although it will depend upon how well the Halloween specials do. As for Blue Hot Gossip, I just released an episode today and will have one out in October before the Podcast Ping specials. I may do one more this year, if I find the time. I haven't done nearly as many episodes this year as last, although if I do Christmas as well as Halloween that should raise the count. And since I'm trending towards specials for Podcast Ping, I'm inclided to drop the episode count.

I've started a toy store at http://patrickjmcnamara.webs.com. And I'm developing a new toy for it that I'll be promoting in October. This will help me determine the effectiveness of the podcasts and may influence my decision as to the future of the podcasts. While I'm not doing the podcasts just to sell stuff, their ability to sell helps me to justify the work they require.

The Torrentcast, in particularly Mininova's Content Distribution, has been the best distribution tool by far. Unfortunately, since many torrent sites take from others it's impossible to know exactly how many downloads a show may get. But I can say that there has been over 365,000 downloads just from Mininova (plus about 20,000 from before Content Distribution started). I've only been able to find the numbers for one other site, and they don't appear to be counting the same downloads. That site runs over 350,000, meaning that I've probably had somewhere around three quarters of a million downloads in total. And there may be many more I don't know about. I could have even passed a million, although I'm only counting the ones I can find listed. I do plan on posting until I reach at least the million mark, provided it's feasable. Right now I'm seeing about a thousand downloads a day, with many shows exceeding 5,000 downloads. One posting appears to have over 20,000 total downloads.