[Hpr] Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ?

Sun Feb 11 10:31:17 UTC 2024

I would like the project to continue.  Life has kept me busy even after the move
to Kentucky, but I do keep notes on subject I find interesting.  No promises,
but I hope to start picking up the mic more often.  In the meantime, it has been
good to hear new and also returning hosts, and I am for one enjoying the content
on each show.

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>    1. Re: Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ?
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>    2. Re: Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ?
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> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:49:34 -0500
> From: Brian K Navarette <bknavarette at gmail.com>
> To: Ken Fallon <ken at fallon.ie>
> Cc: Keith Murray <kdmurray at kdmurray.com>,
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> I hope people would contribute and take to heart the audio doesn't have to
> be perfect. My shows audio isn't great but I get shows done, so like mr x
> says pick up your phone or mic and record a show, heck use espeak to read
> something you wrote.
> brian-in-ohio
> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:58?PM Ken Fallon via Hpr <
> hpr at lists.hackerpublicradio.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2024-01-21 23:05, Keith Murray wrote:
> >
> >
> > As the discussion has continued there's a question in my mind about
> > listenership numbers as well.
> >
> > Caveats:
> > 1. Download numbers are certainly an imperfect measure for a podcast, but
> > without other more intrusive analytics I suspect that's all we're likely to
> > have.
> > 2. Download / subscriber numbers aren't "the point" of the exercise.
> >
> > While we're not doing this to be "popular", certainly, but it would be
> > nice to have an idea of just what the trends are with respect to
> > listenership. After over 4000 episodes delivered and a consistent schedule
> > that's been in place for a very long time, I expect things would be either
> > consistent or growing.
> >
> > Are they? With 470 contributors to HPR, how many orders of magnitude
> > larger than that number does the average episode reach?
> >
> > "Each day your show will be heard by as many people as can squeeze into
> > the main auditorium at FOSDEM, or between two and three Airbus A380-800
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>. You know the big double
> > decker passenger plane. Every month we have on average 33,584 downloads,
> > that's about 40 fully loaded Airbus A380-800
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380>." See
> > https://archive.org/details/hpr3648/ for more information.
> >
> > We have a lot more listeners than we do hosts, and not all hosts are
> > listeners.
> >
> > However you can do the maths yourself, I'm looking forward to your show on
> > the topic. ;-)
> >
> > The download stats for each show are listed on the Internet Archive page
> > <https://archive.org/details/hackerpublicradio?sort=-date>. The dates can
> > be found using this query (It's a cut down version of a query Dave sent me )
> >
> > SELECT
> >
> > MIN(e.date) AS joindate
> >
> > FROM eps e
> >
> > JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid
> >
> > GROUP BY h.hostid
> >
> > ORDER BY joindate DESC;
> >
> > The db can be downloaded from https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)https://kenfallon.comhttps://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon
> >
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> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:53:40 -0500
> From: Claudio Miranda <quadsix50 at gmail.com>
> To: Brian K Navarette <bknavarette at gmail.com>
> Cc: Ken Fallon <ken at fallon.ie>, hpr at lists.hackerpublicradio.com
> Subject: Re: [Hpr] Happy new year - should we continue with HPR ?
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> Exactly. I even mentioned that in my recent episode about the
> Tildeverse towards the end. It's about quality of content, not quality
> of audio (to some extent since you should be able to understand what
> the speakers says).
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 11:48?AM Brian K Navarette via Hpr
> <hpr at lists.hackerpublicradio.com> wrote:
> >
> > I hope people would contribute and take to heart the audio doesn't have to be perfect. My shows audio isn't great but I get shows done, so like mr x says pick up your phone or mic and record a show, heck use espeak to read something you wrote.
> > brian-in-ohio
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 2:58?PM Ken Fallon via Hpr <hpr at lists.hackerpublicradio.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 2024-01-21 23:05, Keith Murray wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> As the discussion has continued there's a question in my mind about listenership numbers as well.
> >>
> >> Caveats:
> >> 1. Download numbers are certainly an imperfect measure for a podcast, but without other more intrusive analytics I suspect that's all we're likely to have.
> >> 2. Download / subscriber numbers aren't "the point" of the exercise.
> >>
> >> While we're not doing this to be "popular", certainly, but it would be nice to have an idea of just what the trends are with respect to listenership. After over 4000 episodes delivered and a consistent schedule that's been in place for a very long time, I expect things would be either consistent or growing.
> >>
> >> Are they? With 470 contributors to HPR, how many orders of magnitude larger than that number does the average episode reach?
> >>
> >> "Each day your show will be heard by as many people as can squeeze into the main auditorium at FOSDEM, or between two and three Airbus A380-800. You know the big double decker passenger plane. Every month we have on average 33,584 downloads, that's about 40 fully loaded Airbus A380-800." See https://archive.org/details/hpr3648/ for more information.
> >>
> >> We have a lot more listeners than we do hosts, and not all hosts are listeners.
> >>
> >> However you can do the maths yourself, I'm looking forward to your show on the topic. ;-)
> >>
> >> The download stats for each show are listed on the Internet Archive page. The dates can be found using this query (It's a cut down version of a query Dave sent me )
> >>
> >> SELECT
> >>
> >> MIN(e.date) AS joindate
> >>
> >> FROM eps e
> >>
> >> JOIN hosts h ON e.hostid = h.hostid
> >>
> >> GROUP BY h.hostid
> >>
> >> ORDER BY joindate DESC;
> >>
> >> The db can be downloaded from https://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr.sql
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Ken Fallon (PA7KEN,G5KEN)
> >> https://kenfallon.com
> >> https://hackerpublicradio.org/hosts/ken_fallon
> >>
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