Unquiet Desperation

We just hit 7000 episodes on Podiobooks.com.  If we assume the average episode length is 30 minutes, that would mean that we now have 3500 hours of audiobook goodness for the world to experience.

What are you waiting for? Go listen to something!

It’s been a productive day.

• I’ve just finished the first run at integrating Podiobooks.com with Smashwords, to allow our authors to highlight their ebook editions. Smashwords will be doing the same thing, pointing their customers interested in an audio copy of a novel to Podiobooks.com. Authors, check your email for a notification about this, or visit the Authors’ Tools section of the Podiobooks.com for more info.
• A new Secret Lair episode is mixed down, and should be ready to post later this evening. It will be an episode of The Secret Library, focusing on our latest book selection, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore. Additionally, there are some excellent segments by Dr. John Cmar and Jay “The Kingfish” Lynn.
• A new episode of Shadowdance has been edited and posted. It’s a lecture Michelle gave on dreamwalking at the last Kheperu Open House.
• I’ve installed tircd on my server, and it beats the hell out of using Tweetdeck. It allows you to connect to Twitter as if it were an irc chat room, and allows yu to segment used into various rooms, etc. I read about it in this month’s Linux Journal, and I absolutely love it.

So far, everyone is moving things along pretty well.

• Thomas is making mad progress on the database migration.
• Tim is working on the new RSS engine, and has a version posted to the repository
• Jason is delving into developing tools to help authors tag their episodes and upload through the PB site, instead of the current song and dance, which is more complex than we’d like it to be.
• Evo is coming up with more ideas. Because that’s what Evo does.
• I’m working on the wireframes and working on getting sample data in for the developers. I’ve commented up the new schema and documented the old schema in the dev wiki.

The next meeting will be Monday night, 9pm EST.  As usual, notes will be published on the wiki.

The Podiobooks 2 project is moving forward. Here’s what’s happening:

• We now have a bit more organization thanks to the creation of a new development wiki.
• Thomas “cmdln” Gideon has stepped in and offered to take on the take of migrating the database. Read more on his thoughts here.
• Chris Snelgrove has offered to take on the project management, and bitchslap me when needed to keep the project rolling.

Our next meeting will be Monday, 8/3 at 9pm EST. To keep up with the latest, check out the meetings archive.

On a recent episode of Podioracket, I made the comment that, if all you know about Evo Terra is from his podcast, you really have no idea who you are dealing with. Evo’s a smart guy and has a brilliant way of cutting to the core of an issue which, I must admit, I envy¹. Check out his recent presentation on Big Numbers for Ignite Phoenix. While the ideas he’s discussing are, at their core, simple math, it’s the perspective he brings to the topic that showcases his skill.

1. I am also jealous of his Wikipedia page.  Don’t you judge me.[back]