As a long term listener I also see the problems you face about keeping the content fresh, the time I realise this most is when a new show comes onto the network. When a new show comes on and is a success I feel like I felt when I listened to Simply Syndicated for the first time (Episode one of SHAFT). This happened recently with Crimes against food one of my new faves so well done girls for that one.

Here are my thoughts and suggestions,

-Simply Syndicated is like pod cast crack. When there are gaps in content I wander round like a lost sheep and have to listen to Geek Nights.

-Series of shows is a great idea but don’t make us wait to long in between people do have there favourites.

-Why limit topics so much, if your gonna do series then you can do loads of topics, not just movies and tec. Id love to see some sort of weekly news round up for example, how about revisiting Weekend watches and doing some tv stuff. What about a short series about camping equipment.

-I really miss Bollocks, I love hearing you (Richard) rant about stuff like the post office and the neighbours.

-SHAFT is my favourite show however I find that recently the phone in callers are always the same people, of course I love them all but they are often the same week on week.

-You need revenue but I feel that making one of your best shows paid only will lead to its decline. Why not make regular specials and charge for them. Or make random shows chargeable so you have to buy one every now and again to keep up. That way those who cant afford it still get to listen to most of all the shows and those that can afford it will buy all the shows.

-The more products you have on offer the more people will buy.

-More ranting……Bring back Bollocks I love it.

Any way ill shut up now, I love the network and want to see it grow and develop away from the mainstream and commercial, I love all the podcasters and all the listeners (probably).

keep it up, keep it open, Keep it real
If you make it we will listen and maybe get our wallets out too,

I listen to and love every episode of,
MYSS
SHAFT
Crimes against food
Bollocks
Games you should play
Make it so
Definitive word

Got to go buy a Chicken now, bank hoilday rush and all…

Peace everyone.

I have been getting more and more tempted to go and get myself a model to build ever since you started talking about modelling on your shows.

Since your starting a new section here I wondered if I might request you to give us some tips about what we might need in our kit to get started.

I think I am going to try some sort of boat as they seem easier to paint. Perhaps the QE2 or some sort of warship, or even an aircraft carrier.

Thanks for the shows, been listening for three years now, just listened to “Broken Finger” last night, hope its on the mend now. Happy B-day MYSS

TTFN
PEACE

No I built the Enterprise D, it was about 2 foot long and had electronics which I had to solder, the Sensor Array lit up the nacelles lit up.

Best of all it came with fibre optics and a tiny batterpowered drill. I drilled thousands of little holes to put the fibres through and when all done the tiny little windows of the saucer section lit up.

It was amazing, until 10 minutes after arriving home my brother knocked it over and smashed it to pieces.

Boo.

Just looked at Springpad again and it looks completely different than it used to -
http://lifehacker.com/5091601/springpad-helps-you-get-things-done

Don’t tell me they’ve removed the hierarchy too?
If so it looks like Evernote envy

It looks so good that about a year ago I made a commitment to using it as my place to keep all notes.

But you know, as much as I’ve tried to force myself to use it, it’s always a pain. I don’t think I’ve opened it unless I really had to in over a month. The time stream just makes it difficult to use. I’ve hoped for soooo long that they might compromise their vision a little and put some hierarchy in there but when I look on the forums it’s just dismissed as something you can already do if you mess around with labels in a certain way.

So I’m going to have a serious look at Springpad.

All I really want to say is that..I never get bored of your shows.

Instead of listening to music on my ipod, you know what I do?
I listen to Make It So.

I started listening to Make it So before I had seen a single episode of ANY Star Trek (haha, I HAD seen for seasons of Voyager, but I know better now, thanks to you guys)

Honestly, though, I’ve listened to at least 70 episodes over 5 times…
And I religiously download the new episodes, on to 118, and I just…
I CAN’T GET ENOUGH.
I just listen to it ALL the time.
Maybe I’m crazy?

I’ve also heard every Bollocks show, but those are kind of difficult to re-listen to.
I also recently started downloading The Definitive Word, and I am also LOVING it.

I’m working on buying all of the MYSS years in order to start with that, as well.

I just…
I love your podcasts,
I LOVE THEM.

I border on obsessed, I just…

I guess what I’m trying to say is that no other podcasts can satisfy me and obsess me the way that the SS ones do.

Over the course of all of this, I’ve realized something…
Something that I feel you should know, but something that you probably, and hopefully, already know;

Your podcasting network already IS radically different from all others, I don’t think ANYONE that listens could ever get bored.
The way that you do your shows, the ‘off-topic’ approach, the digressions, everything…
It’s just so different from everything else I’ve heard.

I feel as if I KNEW you, Rich, and Allison, and Mike, and Will, and Paddy, and Craig, etc.

Listening to the show is like talking with good friends, or at least listening to a good talk with friends.

The way that long time listeners are rewarded when they’ve been sticking around long enough to understand the inside jokes (‘The Sex Vulture’, Risa Nights, how you feel about the Enterprise theme, ‘on-topic’, Dave from the brig, Wendy, etc.)

Your shows produced ‘in house’ give the audience something that they were not expecting, and don’t want to ever part with.

THAT’S why your fans are so loyal, and THAT’S why everyone, including me, will support you in everything that you do.

If the scheduled idea is what you guys think is the best plan of action for everybody, then BY GOD, get on with it.

<3

Also, breaks give you a means to advertise shows in another way then ‘next week, we’re back again. I’m not entirly sure about SHaFT, which is a different animal. Yet, you should consider breaks there as well.

All in all, I think it’s a perfect idea and possibly groundbreaking in podcasting where ‘every week’ has become the rule that must not be questioned. So many shows pride themselves on it.

I think you should do it ASAP and jump ahead of the rest of podcastland. It is brilliant and obvious if you think about it. Some aspects of old media aren’t half bad.

I’m also thinking these breaks could generate excitement for when a show starts again. These breaks don’t have to follow TV type schedules either. In the breaks you could do specials etc.