http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4469092
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4468905

That said, I have been getting more trollish emails lately, which is making it all a lot less fun. The funny thing is that at least two of the trolls are using fake names and email addresses, which is pretty pathetic.

So with all of the feedback in support of it, I guess I’m going to have to buy myself an iPad one way or another. But the rest is going to Catalyst for sure, which, by the way, is going to have it’s first session tomorrow! 😉

Techzing is my favorite podcast… please don’t quit!

Also, I agree Jason should get the iPad. In fact I’m going to donate $50 toward Jason’s iPad right now.

Justin… if he refuses I’m going to come after *you* to get my money back 😉

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So TWO people sent you *real cash money* earmarked for your iPad.

ONE person sent you silly email.

Why then would you listen to the person with no cash in the game?

Accept the donations. Tell us what you bought with them. Tell us what the next donation drive is aimed at.

If listeners don’t like it, they have two options (not just the usual one):
1. Turn off. Unsubscribe.
2. Don’t donate.

Keep up the great podcast and stop listening to people with no money in the game. (Actually, I’ve never donated, so pay me no heed either)

– Rick

Why not get some paid sponsors and use that money to fund some/part of the post production? If you consider the opportunity costs (earning consultancy fees versus unpaid podcast editing), it may make more sense.

You have a catalogue of 205 podcasts. While the audience per podcast may be light, overall there is value in so many hours of discussion. Your interview series alone is worth something.

Keep up the podcasts guys. And please get on with promoting Any Fu!

And have you thought about another Indiegogo or Kickstarter campaign? (didn’t you do one early on?)

Regarding prepping for the show, I recommend Pocket (http://getpocket.com), formerly Read-It-Later. They offer a browser plugin that allows one-click saving of interesting articles so you can.. read them later. I know there are several other services that do the same thing, but it’s a great way shortlist interesting stuff you come across.

Essentially, create a new table with the added/updated columns, select into the new table, rename the old table, rename the new table to the old table’s original name. Of course,

As for the discussion on drone wars, Neil Stephenson in his book “The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer” one of the ideas in the book has microbe sized drones from one tribe or organization (called phyles in the book) that can invade the bodies and regions controlled by other organizations. In the book, there are counter drones and counter-counter drones, ad nauseam. One of the plot points relies on the communication between these drones.

Oh, maybe Justin can build his egometer with AppIgnite? 😉

Good show guys, keep it going!

For example, with AnyFu, you can think all you want that things are going to be awesome, but what would have to happen in order for you guys to shut down the website or sell it off to someone else? Those types of things are not easy/nice to think about but they can help you focus your energy and avoid getting into a situation where you are banging your head against a brick wall for years without getting anywhere.

http://toughmudder.com/

A couple of friends of mine did it this summer and had a lot of fun.

Here is the next one in SoCal:

http://toughmudder.com/events/california-socal-1-2013/

BTW, Leo Laporte takes donations and he openly treats that as another source of income. It doesn’t have to be for improving the show or saving pandas. (Initially he tried to run TWiT on donations alone, but it wasn’t realistic with his costs, so now he relies mostly on ads.)

That said, I can see how some people may see an iPad as a frivolous donation goal, so maybe it’s better to disclose only some of your objectives (well, a new TZ website, or pandas… ;)) and otherwise just let people know that you like to get some change because it makes running the show a little more satisfying.

Save people time and effort with invoices on AnyFu and make a web form for generating them. Expect just two fields (or whatever is appropriate): description of what’s been done and the number of hours. The rest can probably be derived from user account info and session scheduling. (Although you do want to keep these auto-filled fields editable too, just in case.)

I think this could smooth over one pesky bump your users have to get through and improve the general experience. With you being this elite boutique and all that. 😉

@Justin thanks for mentioning The Dip – sounds interesting and I’ll be adding it to my reading list.

Its a donation. How you choose to use it is up-to you. Want to use it to improve the show? Great I get the benefit. Want to use it to train for a burrito eating contest? Great, go for it. Want to buy yourself an iPad? Consider it some sort of reward for putting in the hours. I guess so long as you aren’t donating it to some other podcast (wouldn’t be in the spirit of it, like re-gifting something, but even then I wouldn’t mind that much) I don’t care.

I was going to insert some personal attacks on whoever sent that email here, but have snipped them to avoid this being justifiably censored.