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Phil Skips Stones Across the Pond of Life
Phillip Dampier:
Problems problems problems with Live 365 since last night. Their customers are lighting the torches as forming a mob as I write this. They changed their DNS address last night (the numeric address that ties into live365.com) and it's taking forever for Internet service providers to update their address tables. Until they do, the site is not reachable. Road Runner customers, like myself, will likely be among the last to see the update. Your ability to get to BBM Radio depends on your ISP right now.
I continue to update content on the home page of this site, so I recommend people bookmark http://www.bettermost.net and not just the forum. Usually content posted there crosses over to the forums, but not always. The home page is important because that seems to be where we generate the most revenue to help pay for the site. I try and keep such things an unobtrusive as possible, but I will be tinkering around with them in the days ahead.
Phillip Dampier:
An update - I evidently got the dander up of one of the administrators on another forum in promoting Brokeback Mountain Radio because the person thought it was some giant profit making venture and I was spamming the board. :-[
I want to bring up a disclaimer here about the whole concept of advertising and whether BetterMost is some future Fortune 500 powerhouse.
First, as to our own site here, this is a labor of love and some therapy as well. The ads that you see do not even begin to cover the costs of hosting the site itself. I doubt they ever will.
Second, as to live365 which hosts Brokeback Mountain Radio for me, all of the advertising you may see there when launching the player or listening to the stream is their own. Not only don't we receive anything from it, we pay a monthly fee out of pocket just to bring the service to you. I don't have any control over the ads you may see or hear on live365. That is just part of the cost of having a site there. In return, the artists and publishers get compensated with royalty payments and we are in full compliance with the law respecting copyrights.
Without contributions, this place will almost certainly never pay for itself, and that's okay right now because this represents one of my goals that I've talked about in other forums on BetterMost. It's about committing to change and using the emotional energy from the movie to help propel me forward, and that is what BetterMost is helping me do. It's also therapy for me because I have you folks to help support me and vice-versa.
I have never been a person comfortable with shilling my own projects, especially at the expense of anyone else. I provided a similar explanation to what I am writing you guys to the forum administrator in hopes of clearing the air, while respecting their decision at the same time - I am a guest there like on any forum I might visit during my day.
Phillip Dampier:
I am going to begin looking for some enhancements to the forum here thanks to some suggestions.
First, I'll be looking at installing a chat module into the system. I'm not sure whether this will offer instant messages or a full fledged group chat room system yet. I have to see what is open to the current version of this software. There seems some interest in it so I'm game.
Second, there will be some look and feel changes to the system going in over the next week.
A reminder that people should bookmark the www.bettermost.net address and not the forum itself because new features, articles, and enhancements will be rolled out on the front page and not always noted in the forums.
I have been a bit quieter in the forums for the last day or so because I have been dealing with some side effects of a shot I got in my pinkie related to an auto accident I was in last year that broke my wrist. There are some complications from a treatment I got Friday and I have been a bit out of it.
A lot of people have been asking me about Stephanie Miller since I posted some audio in the Resources forum. She is a highly entertaining liberal talk show host heard on several radio stations across the country. Her show is about 1.5 years old now and she has a weekday three hour program. He co-hosts are Jim Ward who does most of the impressions/voices and Chris Lavoie who is the producer and usually the guy laughing and telling Stephanie she's gone too far.
Her program has three regular segments, one in each hour:
Right wing world - a review of the most outrageous things heard on Fox News Channel and right wing talk radio
Stand up news - a review of news reports from around the world done with a comedic bent
Entertainment news - stories about what's going on in Hollywood, where the show originates
Saturday is the quietest day of the week here on BetterMost because people are actually not sitting in front of their computers. If you've run out of messages to read in the forums, here is Friday's Stephanie Miller program (all three hours without commercials) provided as an introductory sampler. Enjoy....
http://www.phillipdampier.net/downloads/stephaniemiller1.mp3
http://www.phillipdampier.net/downloads/stephaniemiller2.mp3
http://www.phillipdampier.net/downloads/stephaniemiller3.mp3
BBMGrandma:
Philip...I just found Stephanie Miller on my local AirAmerica Station....Saturdays 6-9 am!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY....she's GREAT!! That's my favorite station ANYWAY...just have never caught her show. Saturdays 6-9 I'm usually Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz'in!! Thanks for telling us about her!!
Nancy
Phillip Dampier:
--- Quote from: BBMGrandma on March 12, 2006, 07:46:22 am ---Philip...I just found Stephanie Miller on my local AirAmerica Station....Saturdays 6-9 am!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY....she's GREAT!! That's my favorite station ANYWAY...just have never caught her show. Saturdays 6-9 I'm usually Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz'in!! Thanks for telling us about her!!
Nancy
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I am a big believer in making sure we don't get too heavy and emotional around here. Sometimes we need some good laughs. If you really like her, you can subscribe to her download/podcast service which will deliver every show to you. Unfortunately, she's a bit pricey, but if you get hooked, it's worth it. I suspect she'll eventually go daily on your local station. A lot of Air America Radio affiliates are replacing Jerry Springer or Mark Maron's morning show with Stephanie Miller because her show works better in morning drive.
My other favorite show is Randi Rhodes, who is heard on Air America. Once you get over her accent (allow seven days), she is a real firebrand and entertaining too. Now her show can be downloaded for free, but she's been on vacation all this past week so if you want to hear her starting with Monday's show, check out the link below to download the commercial free version. She does four hours a day!
http://www.randirhodesarchives.com/
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