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New Years Resolutions

Subscribing Correctly

It has come to my attention that quite a few people are subscribed to the wrong feed in iTunes. Being subscribed to the correct feed has benefits for you and it has benefits for us. If you are subscribed to the right feed, you get all the correct ID3 tags including shownotes that are viewable on your iPod. Also, being subscribed correctly helps us get appropriate statistics and also helps us climb up in rank on the iTunes Store.

How do I know if I’m subscribed to the wrong feed?

There are multiple ways to tell if you are subscribed to the wrong feed. Open up The Hangout section in your iTunes library.

If you have any episodes that start with “EPISODE”, then it’s wrong. If you have the “clean” tag next to anything, then it’s wrong. If you see that the artist is “Brent Irwin.tv” and not “Brent Irwin”, then it’s wrong. And last, if you see that the description section starts with “EPISODE”, then it’s wrong.

How do I fix this?

First, select “The Hangout” in your iTunes Library and click on “Unsubscribe” on the bottom.

Then, head on over to www.thehangoutpodcast.com. That’s where you are right now.

Click on the iTunes button in the sidebar.

iTunes should automatically open and bring you to the appropriate page on the iTunes Store. If you are prompted for permision for iTunes to open, allow it to. Now, just click on the word “Subscribe” in the iTunes Store. Notice it says “Free” right next to it.

Now, iTunes will bring you the appropriate versions of all episodes of The Hangout every time a new one is released!

The Hangout!

I’ve been posting in the blog a lot lately about this podcast getting a re-branding. Well, it happened! The Brent and Skye Show will from here on out be known as The Hangout! www.thehangoutpodcast.com has been registered, it’s just not ready for use yet, so it’s not working at the moment. I’ll get it set up as soon as I can.

There is good news, though. No re-subscribing is requred! If you subscribe to The Brent and Skye Show in iTunes or any other RSS reader, it will automatically switch to The Hangout for you! Isn’t that cool?

There is bad news, though. There are so many links and images all across the website. Many of them have “brentandskye” in their title. If you find any places on the website where the link is no longer relevant, please tell me! You can email me at brent@brentirwin.tv. Normally, I’d have you send email to the podcast email address, but there isn’t really one in effect right now. I’ll fix the email-related links as soon as www.thehangoutpodcast.com gets set up. Please do help out be emailing me if you find a problem, though. I’d appreciated.

But I’d like to end this post on another positive note. The logo for The Hangout is a scalable image! Yes, that’s right! Now, We’ll be able to use this logo for putting it on t-shirts, posters, banners, whatever we want to! Before, we just had a 2500×2500 version of our album artwork. Yeah, that would print to be an 8-inch square, but what if that’s not enough? The new logo has been designed in vector, so it’s scalable! Does that mean Hangout t-shirts in the future? I don’t know…

Sneak Peek

I’ve created the album artwork for the new name this show will have. Unfortunately, I can’t show you the logo or the name yet, since I still have yet to register the domain name. The art’s pretty much the same, but I think it looks better now. The font on the “secret” box is the font that makes up the main word of the logo.

New Name…?

So… what is this? What do you mean new name? It still says “The Brent and Skye Show” on this website. Well, possibly not for long. Lemme a-splain.

There are many reasons why the Brent and Skye Show needs a new name. It’s basically a need for an easier URL. Brent and Skye are two names that are not the easiest to spell. Sometimes people use ampersands instead of and. People have said, “What? ‘Brent In Sky?’” before. That is basically the reason we’re changing the name.

Now, what’s the new name? Well, Skye and I have come up with a new name, but we can’t tell you yet. We can’t tell you, because we haven’t registered the domain name for the new name. We don’t want someone to register it before we get our hands on it, so we won’t announce what it is. Before we register the name, we need a discussion with our “Board of Directors.”

The Brent and Skye Board of Directors is the group of people who participate most frequently in the Brent and Skye community. Their job is to vote on important issues regarding the podcast. So far, we have not needed to hold a “board meeting” yet, so they might not even know they’re on the board. But of course, I, Brent, am the “chairman” and producer, and Skye is the “co-chair”, so all matter are ultimately made by us.

But anyway, it will be the board’s decision what whether we put the “the” in the URL and whether we put “podcast” or “cast” in the URL. We report back here on the blog after every member of the board has given their input. But it’s not up to them whether we change the name or not. We’re changing it. You’ll love it!

MyBlogLog

The Brent and Skye Show website now has a MyBlogLog widget in the sidebar. With this widget, you can find other people who like listening to this show, just like you do! So, sign up for MyBlogLog and join the Brent and Skye Show community using the button on the widget.

ShareThis

You might have seen little green buttons under every post on this website. “What is that?” you might say. That button is for ShareThis. You can find ShareThis at www.ShareThis.com. When you click on the little green button at any post or page, a drop down box will open. Then, you can select from many different features to share what you’ve seen on the website. Many more services are going to work with ShareThis in the near future, too. Share this is a great way to add content your blog, Twitter, del.icio.us, Digg, and even email.

By the way, I’m cahoots with one of the staff members for ShareThis. Chris Beiting is the host of one of my favorite Mac podcasts, Help iGot a Mac. You can also follow him on Twitter at @CBeiting.

…Or not

I’m currently tring to figure out how I’m going to do this, but I’ll be able to. I am going to keep BrentandSkye.com. I’m not just going to merge it to BrentIrwin.tv. I am, however, going to put all of the posts in the episodes part on both of the blogs. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about, you’ll understand when I implement it.

By the way, follow @BrentandSkye on Twitter for news about the return of the show! You’ll be able to get updates from us regarding the show, and even you’ll show up on the Twitter page, here on BrentandSkye.com! I’m want to record again tonight, but I don’t know if that will be able to happen or not. I sure hope so!

Please stay subscribed! We’ll be bringing the show back soon!

(For more information regarding our personal Twitter accounts, go click on the Contact link above.)

PROOF

I just re-submitted the podcast to the iTunes store as Flick recommended I do as a comment from this morning’s post. I’m glad to announce that I got my confirmation email less than 10 minutes later saying that my podcast was successfully submitted. Hopefully within the next 24 hours, I will get another email saying that it has been accepted. This was my email (to use as proof if Apple for some reason doesn’t believe me in the future):

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A New Beginning!

There is a new category on the Brent and Skye website! It is the blog! Skye and I both have the ability now to post blogs posts about things that are going on in our lives that we want to share with all of you! Right now, I’m working on the PHP and all that jazz to add the ability to have it say which one of us wrote the post, but I’m sure you aren’t interested in that. So, I will just let you know that we are both going to start posting blog posts regularly here on the website! Of course, if you want to see my real blog, go to www.brentirwin.tv! It is probably the coolest blogs in the world. =D

Look forward to the new show we’ll be recording tomorrow night. There will be a special guest host!