I would like the project to continue. Life has kept me busy even after the move to Kentucky, but I do keep notes on subject I find interesting. No promises, but I hope to start picking up the mic more often. In the meantime, it has been good to hear new and also returning hosts, and I am for one enjoying the content on each show.
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:00:02PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > Send Hpr mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Hpr digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ? > (Brian K Navarette) > 2. Re: Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ? > (Claudio Miranda) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:49:34 -0500 > From: Brian K Navarette <[email protected]> > To: Ken Fallon <[email protected]> > Cc: Keith Murray <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Hpr] Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ? > Message-ID: > <cahjwvyhazk7hwa4cwg9cxp2k98h7wfnzwkdmanhkvg_y+zp...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I hope people would contribute and take to heart the audio doesn't have to > be perfect. My shows audio isn't great but I get shows done, so like mr x > says pick up your phone or mic and record a show, heck use espeak to read > something you wrote. > brian-in-ohio > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:58?PM Ken Fallon via Hpr < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2024-01-21 23:05, Keith Murray wrote: > > > > > > As the discussion has continued there's a question in my mind about > > listenership numbers as well. > > > > Caveats: > > 1. Download numbers are certainly an imperfect measure for a podcast, but > > without other more intrusive analytics I suspect that's all we're likely to > > have. > > 2. Download / subscriber numbers aren't "the point" of the exercise. > > > > While we're not doing this to be "popular", certainly, but it would be > > nice to have an idea of just what the trends are with respect to > > listenership. After over 4000 episodes delivered and a consistent schedule > > that's been in place for a very long time, I expect things would be either > > consistent or growing. > > > > Are they? With 470 contributors to HPR, how many orders of magnitude > > larger than that number does the average episode reach? > > > > "Each day your show will be heard by as many people as can squeeze into > > the main auditorium at FOSDEM, or between two and three Airbus A380-800 > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>. You know the big double > > decker passenger plane. Every month we have on average 33,584 downloads, > > that's about 40 fully loaded Airbus A380-800 > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>." See > > https://archive.org/details/hpr3648/ for more information. > > > > We have a lot more listeners than we do hosts, and not all hosts are > > listeners. > > > > However you can do the maths yourself, I'm looking forward to your show on > > the topic. ;-) > > > > The download stats for each show are listed on the Internet Archive page > > <https://archive.org/details/hackerpublicradio?sort=-date>. The dates can > > be found using this query (It's a cut down version of a query Dave sent me ) > > > > SELECT > > > > MIN(e.date) AS joindate > > > > FROM eps e > > > > JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid > > > > GROUP BY h.hostid > > > > ORDER BY joindate DESC; > > > > The db can be downloaded from https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql > > > > > > -- > > > > Regards, > > > > Ken Fallon > > (PA7KEN,G5KEN)https://kenfallon.comhttps://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Hpr mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/pipermail/hpr/attachments/20240123/54eba7c5/attachment-0001.htm> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:53:40 -0500 > From: Claudio Miranda <[email protected]> > To: Brian K Navarette <[email protected]> > Cc: Ken Fallon <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Hpr] Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ? > Message-ID: > <cacitkxmfxpjsdvm6xq9ecgqgj1r3m4s-3rsbfajqv91xc0o...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Exactly. I even mentioned that in my recent episode about the > Tildeverse towards the end. It's about quality of content, not quality > of audio (to some extent since you should be able to understand what > the speakers says). > > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 11:48?AM Brian K Navarette via Hpr > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I hope people would contribute and take to heart the audio doesn't have to > > be perfect. My shows audio isn't great but I get shows done, so like mr x > > says pick up your phone or mic and record a show, heck use espeak to read > > something you wrote. > > brian-in-ohio > > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:58?PM Ken Fallon via Hpr > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On 2024-01-21 23:05, Keith Murray wrote: > >> > >> > >> As the discussion has continued there's a question in my mind about > >> listenership numbers as well. > >> > >> Caveats: > >> 1. Download numbers are certainly an imperfect measure for a podcast, but > >> without other more intrusive analytics I suspect that's all we're likely > >> to have. > >> 2. Download / subscriber numbers aren't "the point" of the exercise. > >> > >> While we're not doing this to be "popular", certainly, but it would be > >> nice to have an idea of just what the trends are with respect to > >> listenership. After over 4000 episodes delivered and a consistent schedule > >> that's been in place for a very long time, I expect things would be either > >> consistent or growing. > >> > >> Are they? With 470 contributors to HPR, how many orders of magnitude > >> larger than that number does the average episode reach? > >> > >> "Each day your show will be heard by as many people as can squeeze into > >> the main auditorium at FOSDEM, or between two and three Airbus A380-800. > >> You know the big double decker passenger plane. Every month we have on > >> average 33,584 downloads, that's about 40 fully loaded Airbus A380-800." > >> See https://archive.org/details/hpr3648/ for more information. > >> > >> We have a lot more listeners than we do hosts, and not all hosts are > >> listeners. > >> > >> However you can do the maths yourself, I'm looking forward to your show on > >> the topic. ;-) > >> > >> The download stats for each show are listed on the Internet Archive page. > >> The dates can be found using this query (It's a cut down version of a > >> query Dave sent me ) > >> > >> SELECT > >> > >> MIN(e.date) AS joindate > >> > >> FROM eps e > >> > >> JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid > >> > >> GROUP BY h.hostid > >> > >> ORDER BY joindate DESC; > >> > >> The db can be downloaded from https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN) > >> https://kenfallon.com > >> https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Hpr mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Hpr mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Hpr mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Hpr Digest, Vol 184, Issue 6 > *********************************** _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] https://lists.hackerpublicradio.com/mailman/listinfo/hpr
