LKML Podcast Update
This week saw the first day with over 1,300 downloads of a single episode. That’s pretty exciting – it means that a number of people are interested in what’s happening with the kernel on a day-to-day basis. Typical listener figures are still more like 250-300 every day and then 500ish for a given episode over the course of a week, which I’m still fairly happy with even though it’s not quite as exciting. Around 1/5th of listeners are using iTunes, whereas most are now using Linux Podcasting software. Which is nice.
Anyway. Since you find this useful, I will keep doing it. But I might substitute catching up individual episodes for larger single “catchup” episodes when I’m travelling or too busy to do the semi-daily Podcast. Catching up the last two weeks took 5 hours on Monday evening at a popular coffee shop, which might not always be possible. It probably would have been better to do a bumper show and move on from there.
I’m going to try experimenting with a “Week in Review” section on weekends. I don’t know whether I’ll get to start this weekend, or whether it will be sustainable to do that, but I think some highlights from the week in a longer format would be useful to those who just like to listen on Monday mornings (of which there are already a large number – seems many use the Podcast instead of reading the list over weekends).
I’ve played with compression plugins, audio volume levels, and many other tweaks. But let me know if there’s something I can do to make the Podcast better. One thing I cannot do, however, is guarantee typo-free Podcasts or insert links to each item covered. I’m a guy doing this in my spare time, I’m not The New York Times Company (and let’s face it, their daily corrections are getting disturbing enough anyway) and I don’t have the time and resources to offer a full news service. Sorry about that 
Jon.
