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Well, as Geekazine grows, we have to accommodate for it. In the last 60 days the site has seen a decent amount of traffic. However, for this smaller server, it can’t handle the load. Therefore, within the next few days, Geekazine will be moving to a new server. Something I’ve been contemplating doing, but at this point, I have no real choice anymore.

Because of this, you might see some down time from Dec 13-15th, 2009. Although the site is down, you can get to all the Podcasts – they reside on a different server. You can get them through iTunes easily.

Thanks to all who have visited Geekazine. More important – Thanks for making me move to another server. Because of that, I know the sites’ popularity is growing.

Jeffrey Powers

Today is a special day over at Geekazine: Today marks the 2nd anniversary of the website. While the Podcast has gone longer than the site itself, the first official post happened 2 years ago today.

A lot has changed since then. Over 1,000 posts, 111 Weekly Podcasts, 153 Quickcasts, many different videos and now 3 months of Day in Tech Hisotry. Add to that the Roundtables, Vocalo segments, TPN CES coverage and a lot more – you have about 250 hours of content on this site alone.

I would like to thank everyone that has helped out over the last couple years. I would like to thank all the sponsors that have also helped me achieve this milestone. If it wasn’t for the communities I belong to, Geekazine might have faded a while ago.

Looking toward the future – It’s tough to say what will happen. I can only promise that I am still on the same path as 2 years ago and hope to give you more content and improve my art.

Thanks again for visiting Geekazine, Dorkazine and TVazine. See you at the next post!

November is the month to ramp up the shows. I have been working on a new Podcast Madness contest – slated to start next week. If you are a podcaster, you should participate in this contest. I send you a code you can give to your audience. They put the code in and therefore a chance to win.

However, the National Podcast Post Month is simple: One podcast a day for 30 days. I normally do that with the Day in Tech History anyway, but I am going to ramp up some other stuff to try and surpass the 34 I would normally do. I suppose with the video, it’s more like 38 a month, so I figure 50-60 would be a good number to hit.

I do have a few video reviews from Blogworld New Media Expo that I have to put out. I will also try to get AppWild going this month. In all, this should be a great month for Podcasts!

But why put out the challenge if no one is listening. Therefore, I am encouraging all of you to LISTEN to a new podcast a day for 30 days. Find out all the great shows out there. Get involved and call in to those shows. Make people know you are listening.

To all participating, good luck with your challenge. I am rooting for ya. And adding the contest will help.

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This is the full list of winners for the Summer of Podcasts Contest. We ran a contest in July and gave out codes during our shows. Today, Jeffrey Powers announces all the winners in the contest.

Jeff also tells you about anyone that wants to participate in the next contest coming very soon.

This weekend has been a whirlwind. I’ve been working on some new items and I went out of town yesterday. I also had to figure out what I am going to do this week. Tomorrow I have to report to Jury Duty. I may be out for 4 hours, I may be out for 4 days. God forbid I may be out for 4 weeks.

While I don’t think it will be the extreme latter, I have to make preparations if I am out for more than a couple days. That means the Podcast may not happen on Wed. Therefore to suppliment, I am planning a mini-podcast for Monday. Add to that the Quickcast. That means a lot of work on a Sunday.

Not that I mind. I enjoy doing this WAY too much.

FAWM is almost complete. I’m at 13 songs and the 14th is a collaboration with Madison favorite – Beth Kille. We went back and forth on this song, but I think we came out with something that people can remember. If there is time, I will sit down and make a 15th song.

Tuesday is Mardi Gras. Wednesday is the beginning of LENT. While I am not as religious, I still try to make one life changing 40 – day challenge. I did not plan to do one for this year because I gave up a couple things this last year. I also wanted to focus on the site. Maybe my 40 days will be dedicated to the portal redesign. We’ll see what happens.

That’s all for now. 2 Podcasts coming tonight. Else, I’ll see you on the other side.

For a while I have been wondering what I should do with my old Podcasts – After all, they should be somewhere for access, but where? Today I decided to put up Episode 1 on the Internet Archive; a collective for archiving the World Wide Web.

It’s not a be-all/end-all for where my older shows are going to go. For now I will still have the old Podcasts in the exact same area as before. However, it’s always good to have another spot if you want to check out how the show has progressed. For now I will be putting up the first few shows on the site.

If you listen to the 1st show, you will notice it is called “The Show”. I didn’t have “Geekazine” just yet. It also contains the intro of my previous Podcast – “The Independant Music Podcast”. It’s a good meter of where the show has gone since October 2007.

Internet Archive is also responsible for the Wayback Machine – a website that Archives your website. I have a few websites archived there. You can see how a web site was like up to 10 years ago. This is great for figuring out if your website had a previous life.

Thanks to all involved for having a great outlet in the Internet Archive.

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Well, it was 366 days ago that the first posts for Geekazine surfaced (Leap Year, ya know). It’s been a little longer for the podcasts. Nonetheless, this site went live on November 7th 2007.

Since then we’ve had over 175 podcasts and video casts, over 400 posts, a few posts and some people got some great swag. We’ve talked with some great names in the last year – from Bryce Whittey from Technibble, Josh Chandler, to Jeri Ellsworth.

I would first like to thank everyone for a great first year. I would like to thank the sponsors: Gotomeeting.com, Careersaver.com are the two main ones. I would also like to thank all who have sent donations to the site.

Thanks to Norbert Davis from TCTPodcast.com for all the Cool Tech Corner episodes. Thanks to the cast at Techpodcasts, Blubrry and Raw Voice for making a great community. Thank you to uStream for giving me a facet to do the LIVE Show every Monday. Thanks to Vocalo – I haven’t made an episode there in a while simply because I just run out of time, but I am still appreciative for all they did.

I am going to make the next year even better. We have a good stream of people going to Geekazine and to the sister site: Dorkazine. I have some great news. I have signed up some more web sites and we are going to incorporate them into the family. More in future ramblings.

We survived the election. We survived the MicroYugo. We survived Steve Jobs health. We are Survivors – The Eye of the Tiger.

Once again, feel free to email me @ geekazine@gmail.com or call me at 608-205-4378 and say hi. Give me some ideas. Submit an article for use on the site. Let’s make next year better than ever!!

It has been a long day. It all started yesterday when we began the process of moving a website to a different server so I could put up the new version of said site. All heck seemed to happen after that.

We’ll leave the water heater out of this story, let’s just say I have taken 3 cold showers in the last 3 days. YAY!

I have found I not only hit the limit on my website, I went WAYYYY past it. I had to remove 2/3rds of the podcasts just to get under quota. I am not sure what happened – but now I am on the hunt for a service to store the data. Once it finds a new home, I will make all adjustments. For now – Episodes 1-52 of the weekly podcast and the first 24 Quickcasts / 5 min show. are down.

So in momentus fashion, I offer this week’s Bitstrips to use part of an old favorite Edgar Allen Poe poem to create the scene and this week’s comic. Enjoy. (BTW – no Week in Tech History for the weekend due to the podcast space problem. Sorry).

Happy Halloween!!

I know a few of you nominated Geekazine Podcasts for the 2008 PodcastAwards – I appreciate it very much. Although we didn’t get a nomination bid, we are still proud to be part of the process.

The next step is on Oct 23rd, go vote for your favorite podcasts. There are a lot of them, so choose wisely. I will be making my picks later this week.

Also, if you are a business – Why not donate a prize? It is great exposure to your company. You can also talk with them about sponsorship – it’s not too late.

So get ready to vote with no debates and no SNL skits attached.