It was quite the success!
There are a couple of audio bugs to work out, in that my mic level was too high and I distorted quite a bit for the first few minutes.
You can participate in the show chat room using the web client. You don’t have to use the Pro software download.
But, using the software is pretty cool. After you install the software, you visit the show page and click on the button in the lower right hand corner you’ll see a “launch talkshoe live pro software” button. Click on that, it will close the show page and open the software and connect you to the show.
The chat room on the software download takes a few minutes to get used to… it scrolls left to right with a timeline along the bottom. You can click on a chat bubble to directly respond to people, and it color coordinates the response to the original chat comment. You’ll hate it for the first few minutes, but soon you will get into it.
The very cool thing about using the software is that you can connect to the show to talk live without using a phone or skype. Also you can tell who is talking because the user icons light up when people speak. Perfect for figuring out who is the owner of the gay accent.
It’s also great for figuring out who keeps yelling out “nigger dick” on your show uninvited.
That was totally my fault, though. I set the show to automatically unmute new callers. I didn’t realize what that was setting myself up for. It did add a touch of excitement to the show.
My only complaint about TalkShoe so far is that there is no way to upload pre-recorded sound bits into a switchboard. I think there’s a way around that using a mixer.
Karl was a great guest, and a great sport for being the guinea pig for the new format. There were lots of participants and the chat room was off the hook crazy. In fact, as an added bonus from TalkShoe here’s a copy of the chat transcript.
There will be no show next week as Total Eclipse is playing a large corporate party next Wednesday night in San Francisco.
June 11th – Tentatively Lucy from Lucy’s Dilemma will be my guest.
June 18th – Open… Wanna guest star?
June 25th – Howard from TheWebPen.Net POST Chemo special.
Beyond – Open… Wanna guest host!?
Okay so I think I may have been in the web client even though I had downloaded the software. I’ll have to figure that out later…
I think it was a good, refreshing change from lagged audio and broken chat rooms, that’s for sure.
I will guest host any time…you know, being that I am a whore and all.
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I just got the opportunity to listen to the pre-recorded show on TalkShoe. I think it turned out great Jester.
Hopefully, I’ll get the chance to tune in live for the next show. Until then, I’ll be looking forward to it
Hilly – Oh I know you’re good to be a guest anytime. I got too much dirt on you to be worried.
Lika Starr – I hope you can tune in to the next one!
how awesome to have the chatroom saved!! so much fun is had in the chatrooms that it drove me batshit crazy that teh record of all that fun disappeared. PLUS, we can swear in the talk shoe chat. HUGE bonus for those of us with tourette’s.
i loved that there didn’t seem to be any lag between those actually speaking and it was pure pleasure to not have folks disappear in the middle of a sentence.
several folks sounded like they were underwater or speaking through a fan at some points, but i think that was due to them not being on a land line or cell phone. most calls done through computers sound funny anyway so i am kinda used to that anyow.
you are a great host, jester. keep up the good work!
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