Feed Changes?
August 8, 2008
I have been mulling over the idea of moving the future AP posts to its own feed. I really don’t like having to pickles AP and I really really don’t like having Explicit content on the main CP feed, either. Plus, it would give us an outlet for non-show recordings, longer unedited interviews and some non-RPG content (yay, video games… yay, sci-fi movies and TV!).
Here’s what I’m thinking. We set up two feeds on feedburner.
Canon Puncture Show – this would use the current feed as it is; however, we change feedburner to look to the canonpuncture.blogspot site and only post episodes on that blogspot going forward. So iTunes will point to feedburner and feedburner points to blogspot. New CPS episodes show up on this feed.
Canon Puncture After Dark (working title)- I would set up a new feedburner account for this feed and point it to a new blogspot as well. All Actual Play recordings, longer unedited interviews and non tabletop RPG recordings can go on this feed. Also, all of the previous AP and all future AP would be posted here and I would submit a new iTunes feed. We can link both on the CP site.
We would load all the files onto the current Libsyn account and since we can use Libsyn to set up an Explicit tag, anyone who points to canonpuncture.libsyn.com would be all the episodes.
This also means that the numbering of episodes of CPS would only be for CPS.
What do you think?
I really like this idea. I am not keen on the working title. I can understand wanting to have Canon Puncture, as a branding, part of it. Canon Puncture Off-Topic Show sounds better to me than the After Midnight… though I can sense where that denotes the uncensored content difference.
Do you have other thoughts on this alternate feed? Did you want to give it segments or some sort of re-occurring structure? Is it intended to just be a dump feed for stuff that doesn’t fit the CP zeitgeist? Will it be a spin off like Colbert Report was to the daily show?
And I am a bit confused. Why are epsisodes posted on a Blogspot page? Couldn’t this be done with a wiki, live journal, or just it’s own Web Page? Is it the daily entry and archive that make a blog desirable?
Canon Puncture Off Topic is better, I agree. I will use it instead!
The structure of CPOT will be 25 minutes or less, guaranteed. I want it to be a drive-time podcast, something a person can digest in one trip to or from work.
I don’t think of it as a dump feed. I see it as a free form geek show where I can share the other parts of my brain. In some ways, I’m more excited about CPOT than CP itself (the newness, the possibilities, no need to compromise, the lack of censoring and random guests).
I think reoccuring segments are interesting, but I’m not sure how feasible they would be to my fickle mind.
As for why I use blogspot, it is simply for the RSS feed. If I can use wordpress for that, I’d prefer it (I like the interface and I can post at work), but I hadn’t really thought about that application.