Goos to see you SinisterP. I have to say that on my side, I'm about to throw the towel. If my memory's good, I've been in the Blubrry "Community" since 8 months now. I was very exited at what they were planning to do around here. I really thought I would be chosen for marketing campains, that I would make friend and share my passion with other podcasters.
So I've been promoting Blubrry in my podcast either with links or with these audio tags. I came around here to try and start conversations. I've been keeping my surveys up to date and trying to make my choirs around the place.
But nothing happened. A few days ago, Todd was looking for canadian podcasts that seemed very specific. I tought that for once, I would fit into these specifications but I didn't. And really, looking at what was wanted for this ad campain, if my podcast don't fit in there... I feel it just don't fit anywhere. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not crying here... I'm not jalous or angry. I don't want to complain... All I'm saying is that I'm throwing the towel with Blubrry and I'll point my effort elsewhere... Maybe my show just sucks. That probably where I should put the effort, thinking of it...
Now for the community aspect... I found out that there is no such thing as a community. I'm registered in various forum... probably 8 or 9... and all wee see these days, even here, is spam, spam spam. It comes as no surprise when you think about it: Everybody here wants to be a superstar with their podcast. What makes podcasting a very selfish thing. There are in deed some guys like
Rawvoice, or
The ferf and
Whieth on PA.. but for all the rest, people come on these forum to take.. not to give...
That's why I'm kind of desillusionate about blubrry. As much as I can give... It never came back and I feel it never will. The worst is probably that I have no instrument or measurment to tell me how I could make it work in here. I'm not saying I quit... just saying that I wont hang around as often as I used to.
This said, I gotta say that I still have the passion for what we call podcasting. I just released a new podcast and if it wouldn't be a time schedule reason, i would have 3 or 4...
Hope you're not tying a rope around your neck buddy! I let you judge by yourself. Things will probably go better than me... hope for you...