View From The Quad

Are you attending Podcamp Ireland?

“PodCamp Ireland is the very first stand-alone event to promote the use and provide guidance and tips on the subject of social media in Ireland.

Podcamp Ireland is an unconference. In other words it relies on the active engagement and collaboration of participants to make it happen. Everything about an unconference comes from the participants. That includes the topics which will be discussed, the time and place, and even the decision as to whether to hold such an event at all.”

I will be there. It is on Saturday 27th of September, in Kilkenny city. Go to www.podcampireland.com/register to register for the free un-conference. Should be great fun!

Hey there kids! The Starting World of Warcraft (or Starting WoW for slightly shorter) podcast has just been launched at www.StartingWoW.com and you are invited to listen! It is only a short 3-4 min episode, explaining what will be going on, but remember to subscribe in order to get it for free every time an episode is released! If the iTunes button doesn’t work on the site, click the RSS Podcast button next to it and then select iTunes on the page which opens if you are using iTunes.

To who it may concern.
Over the past year and a half, or there abouts, I have been a paying member of Switchpod. Basically, they have pretty much disappointed me at every hurdle, from the stats system, which I have been promised on numerous occasions will “Be updated tomorrow. We Promise!” The strange downtime, the errors with the log-in system and of course, the terribly designed website.

I have decided that I refuse to take any more of this, and want to switch to Libsyn. Imagine my surprise when it is hinted at that not only will I have to give up my feed when I stop paying because of the switch, but switchpod will start inserting advertising into my feed.

Continuing, Switchpod support staff have REPEATEDLY refused to answer two simple questions, related to the above thing which surprised me.

1. Is the redirect feed option available for non-paying members
2. will ads be inserted into the redirected feed.

I feel that if it is not available for non-paying members, or if advertisements are inserted, I deserve to keep my “paying” account without actually having to pay for it, for the sole use of redirecting my switchpod feed to a libsyn feed or maybe my own feed from my own web hosting service. I believe this for the following reasons

1. From the get go, switchpod lied about their service. When I signed up, they were promising “The most advanced stats” and, as we can all see, the stats system is an utter joke. The joke even goes as far as to STILL have the following message printed on the stats page. “Hi, We are experiencing some technical difficulties. We are working to make the new stats page better for the site. We will be moving the stats engine to a new server to improve server performance. We will email when every thing is up. Thanks. - Jan. 28, 2007″. Rob, over there at wizzard.tv personally promised me, in person, at the PNME that switchpod would have a nice stats system running withen a week of the PNME 2007. We shook hands, and he went on to say that if there was not a new stats system, The coder responsible would be fired.
I mean, january 2007, we were being promised new stats. Have they shown up? NO.
2. Check through your support files to see how many problems I have had with switchpod, from files deleting themselves to my account being inaccessible for large amounts of time, remembering that I actually have to give the support staff my username and password, something which I find really… silly. Not forgetting that they tend to dance around questions so that they don’t have to answer them.
3. I was promised by somebody at wizzard.tv that you were working on getting “Switchpod up there with the big boys of podcast hosting”. Has this happened? Clearly not. Switchpod is a system which by rights, should have a warning on the front page saying that any podcaster who takes themselves seriously should not sign up.

In conclusion, I am requesting a transfer to Libsyn, with however much “credit” I have left on switchpod going into the libsyn account. I would also like for switchpod to redirect my feed for free, without inserting advertising into it. I will remove all my files from switchpod, and host them on libsyn instead, because leaving them on switchpod would not only be useless, but unfair to them.

Yours Sincerely,

Cian Mac Mahon
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Cian Mac Mahon
Professional Podcaster
Available for voice work, consulting

www.viewfromthequad.com

Hi there all you Tee Morris and Leann Mabry enthusiasts.

As you well know, Tee Morris is currently nearing the end of work on Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword.

As you ALSO know, I am a great fan of Tee’s work, and will continue to enjoy it until whenever he decides to stop making it.

So, in another one of my crazy times, I decided to take on the responsibility of organizing the BBPC phone-in show. This is like your regular podiobook Question and Answer show, just with the added novelty of being able to call into the program using your favorite phone and ask questions, directly to whoever happens to be on the other side.

“So”, I hear you say, “I can phone in and directly ask Tee Morris questions?”

Yes, but THATS NOT ALL!

Also in the line-up will be top-of-the-class Voice Actor Leann Mabry. She will be joining Tee in the hotseat, and feel free to phone in with questions for her. She might even answer requests for the ‘voice’.

This bad-boy will be happening on the 7/7/07, (we expect no competition from other events happening around the same time. I searched but could not find any worth mentioning) and you can join in the fun by going to my Talkshoe.com page. The fun will begin at 5PM EST or there abouts.

In order to join in the fun, you will need to get a talkshoe.com account. You can do this by going to www.talkshoe.com and registering.

When the time comes, you will need to join the ‘Live Talkcast’. In order to do this, you will have to go back to my talkshoe profile and then press the Join button. A run down on how this works is right over here.  Any other questions you may have will be answered in the Talkshoe QandA right over…. HERE!

Can’t wait to hear from you, and stick around to check out my podcast! You can skip to an interview I did with Tee by clicking ‘Interviews’ at the top of the page.

I get to see Setenity on the big screen on June the 16! Join me, by emailing this kind soul and ask for information on the Dublin Serenity Screening.

In this short episode of the View from the Quad podcast, I talk (for a short amount of time, of course) about Ancestor, the Scott Sigler book which just went to print, Next weeks interview (Tee Morris), and how to podcast in a loud enviroment. Hurrah! Short shownotes this week, as I don’t really have the time to expand on them. DAMN THOSE RELIGIOUS SERVICES!
Contact me at talktome@stuffslashersaw.com

 

 VFTQ 48 [18:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Does anybody have any questions which they would like to ask Tee Morris, author of Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword and MOREVI: The Chronicles of Rafe and Askana? Please let me know in the comments.