Post by Tim on Jul 7, 2012 10:47:44 GMT -5
Hey everyone, Tim here. This show is now over 9 years old and still going!
I've been watching the numbers on this site lately for views and bandwidth, and it has slowed quite a bit. I need to get out and promote it more.
I have slowed down the episode production, but I am still making them now and then. I have plans for #170 in my head, I just have to get around to filming it.
I'm officially placing the production of new episodes on a "whenever" schedule. Which means, they will be made... whenever. No more regular weekly or monthly stuff.
One thing that has always disappointed me about this site and show is that people for the most part never seemed to understand how truly unique and special it is. At the time this show started in 2003, there was no YouTube, MySpace, or Facebook. Even broadband internet access was not anywhere near as universal as it is now.
And with other websites and smartphones and things like that, making it easy for any moron to upload a video, it really devalues the excellence of my episodes here. Yes, there's no real production values, but the general concept was quite unique in 2003, and it is all too common now. So people don't appreciate it as much as they should. And with today's "I want it now" society, it's hard to make them understand what they are missing by not seeing the videos here and really thinking about the episodes. Some people just don't get it, and there's nothing you can do for them.
And this message board never had much activity, and I never understood that part, even my critics never wrote much here.
Anyway, I am still here, and I still have a lot to say about the right and wrong way to do things, so I'll keep making my episodes. I think about making a new type of show that involves other people, as I have seen other web series that were like that and they did very well. Having multiple people on camera vs. a one man show does open up a lot of new possibilities. Then I think about having to write episodes, deal with other people, film while taking other people's schedules into account... and it's very easy to say "It's not worth the effort". Although if I find a situation that works I may do it.
I have thought about releasing videos straight to YouTube, and I might do that, but the whole point of the site is for people to come HERE. And I'll never RSS feed anything, if people are too lazy to click to this site, that's their problem and their loss.
Someone needs to have this site in an internet archive of some sort, as it is still a very unique type of site even in today's internet world.
So keep watching the episodes and bring new people here, there's a lot of good stuff in these videos and more to come!
I've been watching the numbers on this site lately for views and bandwidth, and it has slowed quite a bit. I need to get out and promote it more.
I have slowed down the episode production, but I am still making them now and then. I have plans for #170 in my head, I just have to get around to filming it.
I'm officially placing the production of new episodes on a "whenever" schedule. Which means, they will be made... whenever. No more regular weekly or monthly stuff.
One thing that has always disappointed me about this site and show is that people for the most part never seemed to understand how truly unique and special it is. At the time this show started in 2003, there was no YouTube, MySpace, or Facebook. Even broadband internet access was not anywhere near as universal as it is now.
And with other websites and smartphones and things like that, making it easy for any moron to upload a video, it really devalues the excellence of my episodes here. Yes, there's no real production values, but the general concept was quite unique in 2003, and it is all too common now. So people don't appreciate it as much as they should. And with today's "I want it now" society, it's hard to make them understand what they are missing by not seeing the videos here and really thinking about the episodes. Some people just don't get it, and there's nothing you can do for them.
And this message board never had much activity, and I never understood that part, even my critics never wrote much here.
Anyway, I am still here, and I still have a lot to say about the right and wrong way to do things, so I'll keep making my episodes. I think about making a new type of show that involves other people, as I have seen other web series that were like that and they did very well. Having multiple people on camera vs. a one man show does open up a lot of new possibilities. Then I think about having to write episodes, deal with other people, film while taking other people's schedules into account... and it's very easy to say "It's not worth the effort". Although if I find a situation that works I may do it.
I have thought about releasing videos straight to YouTube, and I might do that, but the whole point of the site is for people to come HERE. And I'll never RSS feed anything, if people are too lazy to click to this site, that's their problem and their loss.
Someone needs to have this site in an internet archive of some sort, as it is still a very unique type of site even in today's internet world.
So keep watching the episodes and bring new people here, there's a lot of good stuff in these videos and more to come!