Netmix Podcast Re-release from 01-02-06
Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I am re-releasing this podcast from 01-02-06, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.
I am re-releasing this podcast from 01-02-06, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.
I am re-releasing this podcast from 04-01-06, which aired only on Netmix
Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix
Podcast RSS feed.
I am re-releasing this podcast from 10-10-05, which aired only on Netmix Internet radio but was never available for download through the new Netmix Podcast RSS feed.
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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Despite the $4-a-gallon gas, since I moved to the suburbs with my lovely girlfriend, Missy, getting around hasn’t been the easiest. The time was definitely right to go mobile. It’s been about 15-years since I’ve actually owned a car. Living in the New York City, I didn’t much need one and would just rent if the need arose.
Of course, what better than to celebrate the new wheels with this “NETMIX” vanity license plate. Pretty cool. Not only do I own the domain name, but now the New York license plate too!
Vince Hearn, head platenut at platenuts.com even did a write up about my new plate! How cool is that. Platenuts features vanity license plates from car owners around the world. Thanks for nod, Vince!
After a few starts and stops, I’ve finally gotten around to finishing up my latest 3-hour mix show. Things have been hectic over the last few months and I just didn’t have the time to focus on it. But, it’s finally done!
I love the 3-hour format, because you can really stretch out and program a variety of tunes into the set. So, download to your desktop and transfer to your portable deviceāor simply just listen to it here.
I’ve also provided links to download each individual track from Beatport.com when available. I know I was hard on Beatport in the past, but the service finally got around to building out a text linking program through their partnerships with Linkshare, an affiliate network that provides companies with the tools to build out affiliate programs. I found most of the tracks, but there were a few I couldn’t track down. It might be because they are new and haven’t pushed an update to Linkshare yet. Beatport have also created an API through LinkShare, which I hope to use in the future. But for now, we’ll just keep it simple.
Would love to know what you think, so please come back and post your comments. Enjoy!
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