[PodcastMN] Hello?

[David Smith]

It was 5 May 2008, when Garrick Van Buren commented: 

> Great to hear from you. Thanks for the mic check ;)
> 
> Yes, things are kinda quiet here. Many of us have added other things 
> (twitter, etc) to our palette - and the pioneering work of podcasting  is
> complete.
> 
> Actually, I'm curious - you've got a number of widgets and gadgets in  your
> sidebar - which ones have you seen the most activity around - and  are the
> most beneficial to you.

Hmmm... Well, the Feedburner stuff is probably most useful and used.  I 
think the email subscription box ought to be very useful, but I don't have 
many email subscribers.  Seems to me folks that couldn't figure out a 
regular aggregator could always use email.

The subscriber count thingie from Feedburner may well be getting used, but 
the primary use is just looking at the thing, so I can only assume it's 
getting "used."  The Feedcount thing also has a link to the feed, so I 
suppose one could right-click on that icon and subscribe, but I don't know 
that anyone has done that, or knows they can.  I'd add more explanatory 
text around it, but I can't figure out how -- I just copy and paste, and 
do a little guessing on how to tinker with the HTML.

The Donate button from Paypal has been used exactly once, by an old friend 
of mine, who used the one on the Blogger blog, not on the podcast.

The Google Search box has been used a little bit, not much.  Seems rather 
obligatory -- more so on the blog, since that's got more searchable 
content.

Haven't seen a lot of traffic I can detect on the various "badges" for the 
aggregators (Podcast Alley et. al.), though I am apparently quite popular 
at Podcast Pickle, and that may relate to their badge.  Not a single 
review on Podcast Pickle yet, though.

The calendar thingie for looking at back episodes seems to get lots of 
use.  Last month I had 400 downloads, mostly of back episodes.

The most used item is likely the Player from Podtrac.  I did try out the 
Podcast Pickle player, but it ran slowly on my own system, and it doesn't 
have some functions I like in the Podtrac player.

I like the idea of the Headline Animators, but haven't heard that anyone 
else gets any practical use from them.  I gather someone put the show's 
Animator on their own desktop, but I dunno how.  One fella just starting 
out his own blog, wanted to use my Animator for his show, and used that 
"grab this" link.  I explained he needed his own Feedburner account to get 
practical use out of it.  The theory, I believe, is that folks who wanted 
to promote my show could grab my headline animator and put it on their own 
site.  Nobody has.

I think people look at the links from Podiobooks, but no click-throughs I 
can recall seen detected by Feedburner.

I'd have to go look at the site again to see if I missed any.

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