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March 6, 2006 @ 12:26 am

[…] I spent a good couple of hours in the morning editing Episode 4 of the GFL podcast. I forgot to normalize by volume and Misty’s. Oh well, not the end of the world. I think the double ender worked out rather well. It’s funny, in the transition to the life section you can hear Misty’s guinea pigs oinking in the background, it’s cute. […]

Comment by toddtyrtle

March 6, 2006 @ 9:53 pm

What is it about Libsyn that has so many people going that way? I ask because I know that there are entire hosting companies that cost about the same and if you own your own comment (or use creative commons licensed content) archive.org will host your files for free. And their speed is quite good.

Comment by andrew

March 7, 2006 @ 9:44 am

Ah, ok. Well I wanted to get off of work’s machine, I don’t like mixing home and work.

So I tried to use ourmedia.org which uses archive.org for the actual data storage. Problem is, my file vanished when I uploaded them. Their recovery page hasn’t turned up anything either. They have stats though. Here’s the page for episode 3.

Archive.org seems to be missing stats. I just want to know how many people have downloaded the mp3. I’m not sure I did the upload right, it was just a test, but none the less I can’t see any stats links.

The key is unmetered bandwidth, and stats. I don’t need much room, 100megs/month is a lot for a us. We’re 40 megs/month plus some sound seeing so libsyn at $5/month is cheap enough it’s not worth worrying about. If they don’t stay around, no big deal, we just move elsewhere. It’s not like we use them for the main site, just as data storage for the mp3’s.

I guess I want stats just to make sure someone is listening. Heh. :)

Comment by toddtyrtle

March 7, 2006 @ 8:58 pm

I find stats so addicting. Sage, on the other hand, won’t look at them at all. She has no idea how many people listen to her podcast and would be very angry if I told her. The idea being that she doesn’t want to worry about drops in circulation - particularly after speaking her mind about something contentious. For her it would be like having sponsors who’d pull their ads when you said something controversial.

Probably more comments later - I still have to listen to this episode. I tend to forget it is in my mp3 player as I browse by genre tag looking for ‘podcast’. I like the idea, though, of your tagging it ‘country’. Very appropriate

Comment by Karen

March 7, 2006 @ 10:47 pm

Andrew, it sounds like your Dad is doing well. I hope he remains to heal and feel better.

Misty you rock! You must be exhausted. Hope your well is up and running by now.

-Karen

Comment by andrew

March 8, 2006 @ 1:15 am

Sage probably has it right about the stats. Though I hope listeners have a thicker skin than that. imho, heh, if you start doing stuff to please people you’ve already lost, maybe it’s just me.

Thanks Karen! Well still isn’t fixed, I think. :( Plus I might end up taking 3 days to get home. I feel sorry for Misty, she’s being run ragged. :(

Comment by misty

March 11, 2006 @ 9:58 pm

Thanks Karen! It’s not too bad. I’ve actually decided to play a larger role in the chores after Andrew gets back. It seems like he gets more of the animal chores normally. I thnink there can be some more equitable division that has me helping him with the barn chores, and him helping me a little with keeping the house clean and gardening. I do realize now that it must be exhausting for him to have to milk twice a day etc.

Comment by Paula

March 15, 2006 @ 8:39 am

Hello,
I am married to a Geek but have not geek tendencies myself. I hope I post this right.

I really enjoy your show. I get to live on a farm vicariously.

I thought I would say hello and tell you about a blogg I read from England. It is by a young couple who have a “Small Holding.” It is similar to yours. They both have jobs and are doing this as a hobby. I am not sure if they live completely off their land. http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/

Have a really great day.

Paula

Comment by misty

March 15, 2006 @ 8:50 am

I’m so glad you enjoy the podcast, Paula! Yes, we invite all of our listeners to kick back and live vicariously through us. You don’t have to deal with the barnyard smells, the muddy boots, or milking goats. :)

Thanks for that URL! It looks excellent. I love the pictures of their pigs. I miss having pigs around — they take care of all of the scraps, and they really are no hassle at all. Sadly we don’t have any room in the freezers for more pork though. I was shocked at how clean their pigs looked though.

Welcome to the podcast!