Post Turkey Day Update

Quick show update, we are going strong on our new home at justcast.org. Still working on the 24/7 streaming although I haven't had time to work on it over the last couple of days.

I'm not taking my usual "winter break" that I have in the past, mostly because we just started casting on the new site so I think it would be a better idea to stay with it for now. Show traffic has been hit and miss, I'm starting to wonder about keeping the show on Sunday nights or moving it but I haven't made any concrete decisions about that yet.

A Quick Reminder

We are having our "official" launch on justcast.org tonight starting at 9:15 p.m. (eastern)!

Please note the new time, as well as our new home if you didn't know already.....

http://justcast.org/users/indie-spotlight-live

Look forward to seeing everyone there!

24/7 Server Update

One of my friends told me that Linux will be the O/S that I will learn..........to hate.

Not there yet, tonight is the first night this week that I've actually had to spend on this project and here are a couple of insights that I'd like to share;

1) Since it is open source, different people do have very different ideas, if you are someone just learning this O/S for the first time, read the forums before asking questions.
2) The drivers you need could very well be different from the drivers you have, depending on the application that you are using it for.
3) Living in a Linux world, is very different from a Windows one, that is for damn sure.

Needless to say I'm still working on this. I'm not giving up until I get it going.

This Weeks Recap

Site was up, worked like a charm. I had to rebuild my profile over on justcast because when their server crashed it took anything created after 10/25 with it, which would obviously include my newly created profile.

Since I didn't make a big deal about the show this week (mostly because I wanted to make sure justcast was up and stable first) we didn't have much traffic to the show, although a couple of people surfing justcast came in and hung out which was nice.

We did have a wierd hiccup during the show, I think it was mostly my error, when I went fullscreen on my laptop to check video quality the show crashed for a second. First time I've ever seen the Flash Media Encoder kick in to fix a problem, but it worked although there was a huge lag afterwards.

Overall I think that things went well and maybe this week I'll do the actual "official" launch of the show on there.

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Show notes;

See above for the update.

As far as the 24/7 streaming player I'm still working on that, as soon as I find a way to get a this linux machine to stream I will be bringing that online to feature past shows.

Well Hell.....

Here is our official recap of Sunday night's JustCast premier.

Justcast was down because of a hard drive failure on one of their servers.

Official show launch rescheduled for this coming Sunday night :)

What Will I Do With The Webs.com Site That I Built Now That I'm Not Broadcasting Live There Anymore?

Regular readers to this blog will know that I have been working on a way to keep the archives of the show streaming when we aren't broadcasting live, yes I'm still working on that and I think that our now former site for the show would be a great place to do that.

What I'm thinking about is redoing the page so that the only thing on it is the player, there is no need to have the chat since we won't be there broadcasting live anymore. This way, people can still listen to the show when we aren't on.

Of course, I will have a link to click for the live show so anyone wandering in will be able to find us at the new site.

This way, folks can listen to the show they missed and play it in the background while they do other stuff on the computer and not worry about someone trying to talk to them in the chat.

I'd call that a win-win.

Stay tuned, I'm still working on a way to set that up.

Why I didn't Go With iVlog

I would like to thank the folks at iVlog for being accommodating to my concerns about their Terms of Service and answering my many questions about it.

Yes, I would be using iVlog right now if it wasn't for the lack of traffic to the show on it when we tried it back in the Summer. Not their fault by any means and I am thinking of using iVlog for some of the other internet projects that I'm thinking of rolling out next year that would be a better fit for the site.

The problem is that at least at that time nobody on iVlog wanted to hang out at a radio formatted show and there is nothing wrong with that. I look at it this way, right DJ, wrong bar. Sometimes I wonder if I had stuck with it if the viewer statistics would have been better but I really don't know. As I just said, I have other internet projects in the works that have nothing to do with Indie Spotlight that I think would be a much better fit for the iVlog audience so I'm not done with iVlog at all.

By what I've seen so far, justcast is a better fit for Indie Spotlight.