Georgia Podcast Network redesign is live!

The redesign of the Georgia Podcast Network is live!

The short version of what's new is:

  • Create podcasts, add episodes to them, or add your affiliate podcast to the directory without having to go through an administrator. Podcasts now work sort of like diaries on Tondee's Tavern and other group blogs. Everybody can have one, but not everything makes the front page.
  • Let other members post episodes to your podcast. You can name co-hosts individually, or set the "group podcast" option to let any registered member post an episode. For examples of group podcasts, see (un)ConCast and Politics is Vocal.
  • Album art, channel, and other meta information can be attached to podcasts
  • Post M4V video in addition to MP3 audio
  • Nifty Flash uploader
  • Embeddable players and widgets
  • iTunes meta information in podcast RSS feeds
  • Can redirect podcast RSS feeds to Feedburner
  • Webplay and download statistics
  • Rebuilt podcast directory
  • Pretty new theme
  • Better performance. Up to 8 times faster under normal server load

That's not everything, but that's the important stuff. There are still some minor CSS issues to work out in Internet Explorer 6, but it should be relatively bug-free other than that. Have a look and let us know what you think!

Mostly ITP live tonight

Assuming our Internet connection doesn't crap out and any of a million other technical maladies don't afflict us, we're going to attempt a live episode of Mostly ITP tonight on Talkshoe. The only things we have planned right now are to play a couple of listener voicemails and to talk a little about Sex 2.0, which is coming up next Saturday. That's maybe 10 minutes of material. If people actually call in, we'd like to spend the rest of the time addressing topics from live callers. If you don't, I guess we'll just bullshit for 20 minutes.

Here is the relevant info:

Time: 9 p.m. EST
Stream and web chat URL: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/17403
Phone: (724) 444-7444, call ID 17403
Twitter: amberlrhea and rustytanton

Update April 7, 10:15 a.m. Comcast crapped out on us about 12 minutes in, causing about 3 minutes of dead air (which we edited out after the fact), but it went fine otherwise. You can listen here.

After Amber's conference is over, we may try to regularly schedule one or two live podcasts a month and balance that out with interviews like we had been doing. Let us know what you liked and didn't like about this first edition.