As I mentioned in my last post, I’m amazed at how many of you are still subscribing and emailing me regarding the podcast. Even though it’s been this long since I put out a new episode, it still seems like people are finding it and enjoying it!
The problem is, as much as I enjoy recording them, they are terribly time consuming. Between the prep, recording, editing, encoding, uploading, and all the other assorted work that goes into, they eat up a lot of my time.
I would love to continue doing them if it were in a format that’d be a bit easier on me. After watching guys like Gabe at Penny Arcade and Scott Kurtz over at PvP do their live comic-casts, I started thinking about doing FCAP as a live show using Ustream.tv instead. It’d almost certainly be longer, and with the chat room the folks watching would be able to ask me questions live, which would be pretty cool!
Ustream also has recording functionality built it, so I’d be able to record the shows as I make them and publish them out to the video sites when I’m done (hopefully) without having to go through all the rigarmarole I did before. You’d be getting pure, unedited Butch, though, so you’d have to be prepared for more “Um”ing, “Uh”ing, and cursing.
My big concern is that the quality of the broadcast wouldn’t be sufficiently high to make it worthwhile. The only way I can really be sure, though, is to actually get in there and try it out. If any of you are interested in helping me test drive, shoot me an email at butch@zombienirvana.com or send a tweet to @ZombieButch and let me know. If I can get a few folks to do a quick test run and give me some feedback on it, I’d appreciate your help!