Andre "Rain" Maubert

We love when our friends hit us off with cool deep house vibes to end the work day. Here’s one from Miami’s Rain Maubert. Take a listen to Sundays With Rain.

Netmix Global House Mix Show for 11-2008 by DJ Tony Z

DJ Tony Z is back with 3 hours of tech and progressive house, masterfully mixed using Ableton Live 6. For bookings, contact djtonyz (at) netmix.com.

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Netmix Global House Podcast

We’re back with a new podcast, Global House Sessions – August 2008. All tracks are available through Beatport.com. Subscribe to the podcast to download.

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Track Listing:

• Rock To The Beat – Kevin Saunderson – Christian Smith & John Selway Remix
• Reynosa – Emilio Fernandez – Original Mix
• Diablo – Oliver Huntemann & Dubfire – Original Mix
• Chime – The Shapeshifters – Martin Ten Velden Remix
• Born Slippy – DJ Joe K and Beto Dias Remix
• I Begin To Wonder 2008 – Jean Claude Ades – Jerome Isma-Ae Remix
• Solid – Sweno N – Original Mix
• Space Time – Deadmau5 Vocal Mix – Mike Di Scala, Colin Airey
• Get Wild – Sharam – Steve Agnello Remix
• Deep Down feat. Shirley Davis – J Nitti – Original Mix

Beatportal.com, the daily blog journal run by the folks at Beatport.com, where kind enough to run my latest Netmix Global House Podcast in the Community feed section. You can check out the posting here.

Many companies are now looking to users to generate content for their blogs. Hiring bloggers is an expensive proposition against revenues. If you’re traffic doesn’t cover the cost of the hosting and content production, then it’s smart to look to the user community to develop content for a web site. We may be doing that ourselves very soon!

On another note, we’re moving away from Podpress for Wordpress as a Podcasting plug-in. It seems the developer is no longer supporting the application since 2007. As far as we can tell, Podpress has become extremely problematic, conflicting with more recent plug-ins, to the point that it breaks the plug-in repository in your Wordpress admin. We found the new Podcasting plug-in. When used in conjunction with a Feedburner_Feedsmith plug-in, we think it works quite nicely.

Podcasting supports iTunes, but it does not have links to the other podcasting web site featured through Podpress. It also does not host a download link with its player, nor does its player show the number of downloads. A bit disappointing, yes, but do I really need to tell people how many podcasts have been downloaded? Or, is that just a bit of ego on my part? I’ll go with the ego and forgo displaying the number for now. As long as I know what it is and that number is in overall subscriptions, I’m going to say that’s more important to Netmix growth over the long term.

That being said, my workaround was to simple. I added a text link under the Podcasting player provided by Feedburner to allow anyone to subscribe to my podcast feed. That way, it will ping users who have subscribed to the podcast with updates, in the same way that Podpress functions.

In a nutshell, I think we’ll be better off for the time being. Feedburner is quite a powerful way to organize and distribute feeds. For Netmix, that’s another great analytics tool, which compliments our Google Analtyics and GetClicky accounts.

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