We’ll be broadcasting live via Ustream.TVm Friday Night (Sept 19th) starting between 8 and 9pm central. Regrettably, Denise will be absent.

TIME CHANGE!!! Saturday (Sept 20th) starting between 1 and 2pm central.

NEW HE PODCAST FORMAT!!!

Most of your faithful listeners know that over time the podcasts have gotten longer and longer. With more questions, more topics and more hosts the typical HE Castcast is topping out around 3.5 hours. While it fun for us and for many of you, the overwhelming majority of feedback I’m getting is that people simply don’t have 3 hours to devote to a weekly podcast. This is also evidenced by the sharp decline in listeners that started with the first 3 hour cast.

Research shows 1.5 hours to be the magic number, so that’s what we’re doing. We’ll only be doing 5 or so topics for the first half of this show. This will give us time to go off on tangents, etc and still keep this segment at about 45 min.

We’ll also be hand selecting questions from the ones you submit and answering 5-10 of them (again, trying to keep it at 45 min or so). We will be picking the questions that are:

• The most thought provoking
• The most unique
• The Geekiest
• The most likely to elicit a good discussion
• or allow us to go off on the funniest tangents

Questions that we don’t answer live might be answered in the Post Show. I really enjoyed answering ALL the reader questions but it’s just not possible without constantly elongating the Cast. The more listeners the show has the more likely it is to continue, so this is a good change for all.

See you there for the live chat.

Tags: podcast questions

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