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It’s been a while…

May 30, 2010
by martyrshow

All podcasts are now hosted on blip, you can click the link under my annoying face & stream them until your brain shuts down through over-stimulation. The podcast page has been updated to reflect this & all the old posts have been updated as well.
No more broken links, yay!

Craig & I will be recording the podcast today, so season 2 could end up starting earlier than expected. Look forward to more themed episodes, less pointless swearing & better audio quality.

I’m also on formspring now, so you can ask me anything you like.

I talked about a few things i had in the works last time so i’ll just give an update on those:
I’ve got a video of the DX11 ready to edit, so i’ll be throwing it up on youtube during the week.
I finished my Britney Spears remix, so i’ll be uploading it to soundcloud during the week as well.
I’ve planned & scripted my first (if you don’t count TAV’s) video review. I’m starting a new job tomorrow, so i have no idea when i’ll be able to film, edit & score it.

Something is happening?

April 27, 2010
by martyrshow

I realize i’ve not properly updated the site since the 4th, so i’ll just cram everything into one post…

    PODCAST


Season 2 is being recorded right now, We’ve got possibly 2 episodes in the bag & are still waiting on submissions for another episode. We have 3 more planned out, which will bring us to 6 out of 8.

    MUSIC


I’m in the middle of a few things. The theme tune for season 2 of the podcast is done & i’m working on finishing two original tracks as well as a cover.

    VIDEO


The camera i’ve been using recently isn’t that great, so i’ve been looking getting a new one. I tried this last year and ended up with a MiniDV with faulty DVout, so i’ll probably shop around a bit.
I really want to get a vid up with the DX11, showing what it can do, etc. The DX11 has been tagged in maybe 10 youtube videos out of, well, billions or some shit, so i’d like to change that. I’ll probably do another “A Bit Of…” video first.

    OTHER


For some reason, words that end in g require double spacing after them, or they run together. I dunno if it’s a theme issue, or what, but i’ll try & sort that out as well.

Super Street Fighter IV is out in two days, so don’t expect me to post much in the way of updates. I try not to use this site as a personal blog anyway…

Live podcast type thing, tonight?

April 4, 2010
by martyrshow

Craig & i will be attempting a live podcast type thing on Ustream tonight at roughly 8pm gmt. It’ll mark the end of season one as a whole.

This is the first time either of us have tried this. We may run into problems with our upload speed & end up sounding like Stuart did on episode 4, or it may go smoothly.

This is the link to the show’s page. You can watch the stream & join the chat by clicking on it.

If you want to join the chat without having to listen to us, i think you can click this link & pretend you’re using irc.

UPDATE: That was a fucking disaster, sorry to anyone who tuned in.

Return of the podcast?

April 1, 2010
by martyrshow

Episodes 1-8 haven’t made their way over to podomatic just yet, but they will before the end of the week/month/year…

We were going to record what should be episode 9 tonight, but things are happening that prevent us from doing so. Craig will be busy next week, so it’ll be 12th before we have time to record. When we do, it’ll be a themed episode, like episodes 3 & 6, but without any disturbing personal information (although with Stuart joining us again, you never know). We will have one topic & discuss it for the duration of the show (28mins, hopefully) and then I’ll upload as soon as i make an intro/outro.

The episode planned after that will also feature guests(?) & will be based on one thing, but not a question or an issue, just a subject that we’ll cover.

Rather than call these Episode 9 & Episode 10, I’m thinking of making them Season 2, Episode 1 & Season 2, episode 2. It would reflect the change of style & hosting, as well as get us in the right frame of mind to do six more episodes after that & make each season eight episodes, or roughly four hours long.

The change of style isn’t a massive departure, but I feel like we’ve been using news stories as filler lately & we’d like to get away from that. Mentioning current events dates the podcast as well. Back when we’d record during the week & upload four or five days later, the show would already be out of date & that resulted in at least one episode not going online at all, everything we discussed was old news & people wouldn’t remember the issues we were referring to. Episode 8 suffers slightly because we talk about a town that the majority of you will not have heard of. I left it in because most small towns have something like that, so even if you don’t know specifically what we’re referring to, you could at least relate…

I also want to promote the show more. If you’re thinking “Fuck sake, you already spam it like a bastard on aicn, twitter & bebo” then you’re in for a treat. I’m gonna try to get the show on other sites & see what happens. Soundcloud offered 100 downloads & unlimited streaming. We never came close to 100 downloads, so it worked out for us. Podomatic has bandwidth limits though, so it’ll be a battle trying to get the audience to grow while we stay beneath our limit. I’m thinking about Blip.tv for streaming & podomatic for mp3 downloads & rss/iTunes functionality.

If anyone has any other hosting ideas (or wants to host it, free of charge) feel free to leave a comment or contact me using the info on the About/Contact page.

Podcast news & the return of episode 4

March 25, 2010
by martyrshow

Craig & I are currently looking for a new host & trying to get all the previous episodes online. Soundcloud only gives you 2 hours of space & that ended up allowing us to have 3 episodes online at any given time, which is why episode 4 was only 6 mins long.

I think we’re going with podomatic, but Craig thinks we’ll only have space for 15 episodes. They also have a monthly bandwidth cap.

I have thought about paying for the media upgrade on wordpress, but that would create an rss problem that i can’t seem to find a solution for. We should be back on track in under a fortnight, regardless.

Also, Episode 4 made it’s way on to youtube. We originally talked about just putting it on there instead of having it as a real episode, so i guess it worked out that way in the end.

Podcast 8: Google Is…

March 15, 2010

Craig and Martin discuss Dalry’s economic state and economics in general, the Scottish schooling system, the concept of spare ribs, Murphy’s Law, Salò (or 120 Days of Sodom), the move towards a police state, google’s suggestive nature and a whole lot more.

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