While last months Friday the 13th date proved to be uneventful, the same can not be said for this months version. Last night, for the second week in a row, the live stream on Talkshoe.com as well as the SIP portion of their phone bridge went offline during the recording of WordPress Weekly. It eventually came back up only to go down again. I’m currently in the process of writing a support email to both a Talkshoe support representative that I know and also their Get Satisfaction page. I’m starting to worry if whether or not I should do next weeks show by cell phone to insure that my audio does not drop out of the interview. At this point, I am still not convinced that I should move the show to a new platform or do the show a different way than I currently do. However, if this continues to impact the show like it has for the past two weeks, Talkshoe will leave me no choice but to find something better, although it will be tough to do so.
For those that managed to make it to the show last night, thanks for sticking through it and my apologies for the disruption in audio.
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BuddyPress Skeleton Theme Released
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WordPress Tavern Listener Poll:
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Plugin Picks Of The Week:
Jeff – WP To Top – WP To Top is a WordPress plugin that adds a “Back to top” link in your blog without modifying your template files. This is useful especially if you have long posts or long pages. You will have a nice “Back to top” or whatever-text-you-want link floating at the bottom right/left of your page.
WordPress Trivia Question:
Who originally coined the term WordPress?
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Couldn’t you just call in via Skype (or similar) and make sure the other caller is doing a conference call direct to you via Skype at the same time. Then, even if the TalkShoe stream conks out you will still be able to record the interview? So barring incidents, TalkShoe is used, but if something goes haywire then you can just continue with a regular old Skype call which you record the old fashioned way?
So basically I’m just suggesting a backup system which is always running. So even if TalkShoe stops working part way through you won’t need to do a thing as your backup system will still be working anyway – we just won’t be able to call in that’s all (or at least not without Skype calling you).