May 12, 2008
The redesign of the Georgia Podcast Network is live! Most of you ought to be able to see it now, but if you can’t check back a little later. We switched the domain settings last night, and it may take a little while for them to take effect in some places.
The short version of what’s new is:
- Create podcasts, add episodes to them, or add your affiliate podcast to the directory without having to go through an administrator. Podcasts now work sort of like diaries on Tondee’s Tavern and other group blogs. Everybody can have one, but not everything makes the front page.
- Let other members post episodes to your podcast. You can name co-hosts individually, or set the “group podcast” option to let any registered member post an episode. For examples of group podcasts, see (un)ConCast and Politics is Vocal.
- Album art, channel, and other meta information can be attached to podcasts
- Post M4V video in addition to MP3 audio
- Nifty Flash uploader
- Embeddable players and widgets
- iTunes meta information in podcast RSS feeds
- Can redirect podcast RSS feeds to Feedburner
- Webplay and download statistics
- Rebuilt podcast directory
- Pretty new theme
- Better performance. Up to 8 times faster under normal server load
That’s not everything, but that’s the important stuff. There are still some minor CSS issues to work out in Internet Explorer 6, but it should be relatively bug-free other than that. Have a look and let us know what you think!
Cross-posted to the Georgia Podcast Network
April 23, 2008
Randy Lewis of the Georgia Daily Digest, whom you might also recognize as the most frequently-appearing conservative panelist on the Ga. Politics Podcast, had a quote in the New York Times about the soap opera going on at GDOT:
“On the scandal meter, this doesn’t make my needle stand up too much,” said Randy Lewis, a political analyst who runs the Web site GeorgiaPoliticalDigest.com. “Because it’s nothing compared to the rest of the sludge at D.O.T. and what has to be done there.”
I wonder if the Times just missed the double entendre.
April 21, 2008
There’s a new episode of the GA Politics Podcast up. It’s been almost exactly two years since the first episode!
Topics: Legislature wrap-up, bloggers running for office, GDOT scandal.
Thanks to Joseph for hosting and to the panelists for coming out!
April 6, 2008
Assuming our Internet connection doesn’t crap out and any of a million other technical maladies don’t afflict us, we’re going to attempt a live episode of Mostly ITP tonight on Talkshoe. The only things we have planned right now are to play a couple of listener voicemails and to talk a little about Sex 2.0, which is coming up next Saturday. That’s maybe 10 minutes of material. If people actually call in, we’d like to spend the rest of the time addressing topics from live callers. If you don’t, I guess we’ll just bullshit for 20 minutes.
Here is the relevant info:
Time: 9 p.m. EST
Stream and web chat URL: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/17403
Phone: (724) 444-7444, call ID 17403
Twitter: amberlrhea and rustytanton
Update April 7, 10:15 a.m. Comcast crapped out on us about 12 minutes in, causing about 3 minutes of dead air (which we edited out after the fact), but it went fine otherwise. You can listen here.
After Amber’s conference is over, we may try to regularly schedule one or two live podcasts a month and balance that out with interviews like we had been doing. Let us know what you liked and didn’t like about this first edition.
