Feb 21, 2005

Long time, no entries

Yikes, I look back & see the last post I wrote was back in November...time sure does fly. My wife and I are expecting twin boys (!) in April which is one reason I've been extra busy (getting ready) but not half as busy as I'm going to be!

Anyway, the last post referred to an upcoming "Young Fogies" playlist -- that was put up and updated a few times and there have been many, many playlist updates since then.

You may notice I've started running a few ads on the site, in an effort to recoup some of my operating costs. I'll try to strike a good balance: to make the ads effective for the advertisers, but not overly obtrusive for my visitors.

I'm also running a few ads of my own using Google AdWords...already I've gotten quite a few new visitors, and I've only spent 75 cents!

I've noticed that the number of available listeners on the 40kbps channel has been exhausted quite a bit lately. If this happens to you, just click on the 24kpbs stream and hopefully you will be able to listen. I hope to add more concurrent listeners in the future, as well as possibly a higher-bitrate (this won't be anytime soon) but of course all these things mean added expense. We'll see how the ad revenues add up and take a look at these options.

That's about all for now -- let me know if you have questions, or if there's anything in particular you'd like to hear. The next major playlist update will probably be another banjo-centric show.

Thanks to all for the kind emails & Guestbook entries -- if you haven't signed the Guestbook, please do so!

Enjoy!

John

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