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Added on February 28, 2007 by
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 Croncast - 2007-02-28.mp3
Show: #343
Length: 39:12
Size: 26.9mb
Format: mp3 Betsy and her husband Kris February 28, 2007
It's the last show until April 2nd . . . and I am sick! Not on the show, but today.
Betsy and I want to thank all of you for listening, emailing, commenting and becoming close to us. Doing the show is something that we love to do and are amazed most of the time that it can bring people to laughing wildly and looking awkward in places like offices, trains, planes, cubes, cancer research labs or in their car when people pull up next to them and stare.
Starting later today there will be two nerdish ways to catch up on Croncast.
I will put up two new RSS feeds, one that will let you download 1 show per every weekday from the beginning of the show and another that is "Catch up with Croncast in 22 days". This RSS feed will deliver 1 of 22 shows on weekdays the entire month of March. It's like the first feed just for those who want to catch up quickly . . . if an entire month is quick!
And for those of you without the patience for either check out the archive page. The easiest way to download past shows is to subscribe to a set of 5 RSS feeds that I have put together and will have a little later today. That way you can download 'til your Croncast fix is met.
There are no show notes for today's show. Betsy and I have a great time to start off the show for 10 minutes and then get down to talking about something that made 2006 a very interesting year for us. You'll just have to listen to find out what that was.
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Added on February 26, 2007 by
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Croncast - 2007-02-26.mp3
Show: #342
Length: 36:07
Size: 24.8mb
Format: mp3
Betsy and her husband Kris February 26, 2007
Betsy cranked out some more Resale Queen posts
I added a little widget that pulls you posts into Croncast
At least you can pretend
You're like my management
No I haven't seen the scissors, just the knife
Dog head collar in a homemade envelope
There's only two things shipped in that style of envelope . . . dope or anthrax
Sending packages through USPS media mail
Only books but nothing you wrote yourself
You're gonna tell me that you pay some ogre to open dirty books?
Any likeness to the real guy "One Eye" Pete is unintended
Are postal jobs hard to get?
We're not talking about Jeanie's mom
Taking disability and as a result you can have a post office job
Kris hired the crazy guy that worked at the post office
Yes, Betsy, he talked to his soup and giggled all the time
Little white guy, glasses
Yes, he had his car stolen three times a week and refused to move
He was a Vietnam Vet
Great guy
The Boulder Vet with his Duke's of Hazzard uncle Jesse look
So he was the Boulder information booth
Maybe he was on his lunch break
The FedEx people . . . I like them a lot there more laid back
Anything beyond a lobster
Did you know that you can ship 60,000 chickens through the mail
"I gotta get these chickens to Detroit in a week. Can you ship them?"
Putting the dog on the APC at the post office
Our 16 lbs. golden retriever arrives at our destination
I want that to be us
I want to be the old couple in the RV at Cracker Barrel and watch you walk our Pomeranian
Kris standing in his overalls and shiny sports jacket embroidered with "Betsy's Bitch"
My vision is you dressed super puffy cuff with a baby bjorn with the dog in it
Point of contention and Kris's car
It's what you are doing to my car
You're destroying my car
I'm just not into details
When I pull up into the resale shop in your Jag and I have to think twice about where to park it
You need to be driving the Volvo
Fancy schemlly coffee that has spilled all over in it
I'm calling you out on the show finally to make my point
I'll fill my car up tomorrow with your money
Betsy scraps with the loose cannon owner of the local gas station
He's an asshole . . . baby no he's not
Your card is no good
Crazy eBay lady just leave
I wanted to throw a donut at him
I got men to take care of
Soap, razors . . . those are expensive Mr. B
Can't you go with a single blade?
You'll get a rough more manly look
I have been converted to the more blades the better crowd
Why don't you use the power stuff?
Coming Wednesday . . . blowing a lot of dough, Kris comes clean
Audience Survey, please fill this out for us
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Check a news post for a new RSS feed for getting archive shows on weekdays one at a time
Send us a message or comment on the blog post soon to follow with the day of your favorite show for running in March "Catch up with Croncast in 22 days"
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Added on February 25, 2007 by
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Poor Al Gore, and winner of today's funniest search results for this post are:
1) Al Gore botox
2) what happened to al gores face?
3) grammys al gore
I guess the funniest part is that I didn't expect to get many search hits for this because I thought it was just me who was creeped out by the "aging rock star "work that had been done on his face. Not so. Now I feel a wee bit more normal.
I would like the old Al Gore face back. I'd even take the bearded one.
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Added on February 23, 2007 by
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I am a RSS stats junkie. From RSS stats you can demonstrate almost anything that you want to (like most any other statistics, but work with me people). You can highlight trends, show how another integrated marketing helped your feed at a specific time of day, try to gauge some ROI from your RSS feeds or tell what applications or bots hit your feed most often. And don't forget click-throughs. There's tons of information that can be pulled from feeds by tracking them. FYI, if you are not tracking your feeds you should be it will open your eyes to a new group of people standing right outside your door.
My buddy Rick Klau over at FeedBurner has released some great numbers and taken a conversation public, so to speak, that many podcasters and bloggers have had recently. The focus of that conversation has been just what are we measuring with these numbers? Which stems from a conversation that page views are dying as an accurate measure of success. Rick's take is that we are measuring engagement. I would agree."Your Content is Bigger Than Your Feed
Today's key takeaway is that feeds represent only one aspect of a publisher's overall content consumption. We're living in a world of distributed media after all: people might be reading your content directly on your site, within a widget, via resyndicated headlines on another site, or on a social networking site." RSS has the ability to more adequately demonstrate engagement since a user actively decides to make your content part of their life. Think of it this way, what if you were able to get people to subscribe to banner ads? What would those statistics look like? You would measure click-throughs, time of day, conversion ratios, etc. Feeds are no different, though more benign. The ad just happens to be your content.
As we creep toward standardization or something closer to a norm for interpreting RSS statistics this post may kick the creep up notch to a walk.
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Added on February 22, 2007 by
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I realized this morning that it is impossible for me to take time off. I'm sick right now and wanted to take this morning off from work.
Things were off to a great start after downing some cough medicine last night and rolling out of bed at a late 7:30 a.m.. I did up some breakfast in the form of Weight Watchers bagels, sawdust and rubber flavor, and tried to do what Betsy does and watch tv. Observation . . . daytime tv will rot your brain and working from home means only one thing when tv give you little to no satisfaction. My options:
1) Leave the house - no, Fry's isn't open yet.
2) Check email - yes, simple ritual
And as fate would have it choice 2 welcomes me back to work with open arms. A tweak here, a conference call there and I am back where I began yesterday, a little hairier and rested. It is a no web cam day for sure.
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Added on February 19, 2007 by
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Yes, I'm back from the warm south and meeting a lot of nice folks interested in podcasting. Podcast Academy 5 was a fun event not just for sharing the nerdly dealings of RSS but for the meals and other good times that our host Gigavox Media put on.
Thanks to Michael, Doug and the entire Duke team for putting together this event and inviting me to particiapte!
Michael got some shots of us at dinner. Here's one with most of the crew at the brewpub. Can you find the bald guy with the big goatee?
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Added on February 19, 2007 by
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Croncast - 2007-02-19.mp3
Show: #339
Length: 33:12
Size: 22.8mb
Format: mp3
Betsy and her husband Kris February 19, 2007
Witty, smart or tired when you make your comment
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So we're taking a month off
Remember that March is a desert of Croncast
Over 300 times of the same style
I didn't come here for you to insult you Mr. B
I'm going crazy Mr. B
I have been in this house for two weeks (ahem)
I think you have left plenty of times
Getting up at 4 a.m. with the kids
When I am gone I miss that
Man, that's early . . . there is nothing going on that early
Why are you putting out lunch at 10:30
My Kashi has made it's way towards the exit
I'm so disappointed Mr. B
I signed up for Weight Watcher again
I gained a pound
It's impossible
How many pounds did you lose the first time around? 120
Not eating fast, Kashi and other high fiber foods
That's not it baby it is portions too
"I can eat the hell outta something," Betsy
That is the wrong phrase if you want to lose weight
I'm not even eating the shell
That taco salad, Maggie could get lost in that salad
Portion control baby
Take a lesson from Bears
Take a lesson from someone vicariously on weight watchers
They keep you from eating the food because it tastes so bad
Spinach that reminds me of mowing the lawn
You're older now Betsy . . . you hit 30 . . . things have changed for you
"I just want some chunky monkey"
Ok, Kris, what the hell is your problem with the Murder McMansions
Jeanie called, wouldn't there be blood in the carpet?
The old telephone building . . . our own Murder Apartment
It was New Years Eve when I was 7
All the firetrucks (the two the town owned) the town's ambulance and a lot of volunteers
There was a domestic dispute and someone got stabbed . . . and died
Our new love nest was a bloodstained
No he didn't go after her, you have it backwards
Oh, I could live there no problem
She stabbed him
He probably deserved it
I just sat right over that bloodstain watching TV eating my Gino's pizza
Our next vertical move we gotta buy one
Selling your Murder McMansion
Betsy hits us with her fuzzy math purse business update
Bear, I love you like Jesus and cotton candy
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