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OK. So the experiemental phase is over. I tried a BeerCast with some of my friends a few days ago and though the content was good the sound quality was for shit. Last night, however, we made a switch to using MiniDisc to do the recording and the results were nothing short of phenomenal. More importantly, however, was the involvement of the passive audience.
When you BeerCast, you do it in a public environment and its inevitable that someone is going to sit next to you. This happened tonight while Chaj and I were speaking. We actually ran out of juice and needed new batteries. So as he ran across the street, I realized that we might have been loud so I explained to our neighbors what we were doing. Suddenly, there was a new excitement to deal with. It was immediately obvious that we needed to involve these nice folks and so the first guests were invited in.
Chaj and I have been mentally sparring on how long one of the BeerCasts should be. So far, we've managed to not go any less than 1:30:00 (an hour and thirty minutes for you out there). This reminds me of that Mark Twain saying, "I started to write you a short letter, but I wrote you a long one instead". The insight being that it's 1) hard to be concise and 2) almost innatural.
I am of firm believe that if you've listened an hour, you won't care how much longer it goes since obviously there's a conversation at work and you would hate to not know the ending. I could be wrong.
In any event, we went from us 2 to 5 and the conversation only got better. We've already got 2 new guests planned for the next show and hope to make it the unspoken rule for all shows going forward.
I hope you'll be able to tolerate it all.. and if not, tell me when we should have stopped. We're DESPERATE for feedback.
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