I agree with Jane2 about babblecasts. I’m not really interested in listening to people chat about what they did on the Grid this week. Group casts are OK if the group actually has something newsy to talk about (and everybody’s sound level is consistent), but doing a group cast just for the sake of doing a group cast does nothing for me.

You babbling is fine. Well and with me.

Or have SL completely lock up your computer so you have to hard boot, consistently, within minutes of logging in. That’s what the current RC does, every single time I run sl, so that means, unless they fix it, that’s what’s going to happen in the next release client. That’s the future of SL for me. Guaranteed system lock ups in 5 minutes. And that means I won’t be in SL anymore. Still don’t understand?

I actually agree about the babblecasts, actually for ME babblecast meant me babbling, but the group casts, well, there’s a million of those all over the internet. People in a group yammering, and blah blah blah for an hour. I get feedback that those are the ones people like, but if I did that most of the time, it would kill my spirit and I’d stop podcasting. Seriously. There’s no creativity in that at all.

What do you want your podcast to be? You have a lot of elements now that could stand on their own quite nicesly…the interviews, the rants, and Chug’s piece especially. All great segments in and of themselves, the show’s too long as it is now….unless I listen to it when I’m supposed to be working, I can’t get it all in at a go.

I’m not a fan of the babblecasts…too much “on” and not enough of interest to anyone but the participants. Well, except when *I* am in them of course. Seriously…nothing turns me off a podcast faster than hearing a bunch of people speak among themselves with no format or moderator….I’d rather entertain myself with my own friends.

I see this posted a lot on the JIRA and forums, and I’m glad it helps some people, but it’s not the main issue going on for a lot of us, probably even most of us.

I have to say that this solution is brilliant, and obvious when you think about it. Evidently the mac client is set by default to use ALL of the graphics card memory. This works fine until the client fills the card up with textures and then OSX wants some, perhaps if you are running another app, etc. Anyhow, your machine will do texture-thrashing because of this default.

The forum post suggests lowering your texture memory down to half of the default to prevent thrashing. And it does - at least on my iMac. My frame rates are WAY up (30+ frequently now) and very few beachballs. Give it a try, Radar, and maybe the rest of your technical day will be a bit better!

One, you gotta like what you’re doing or you’ll never be satisfied so just do your thing and don’t worry so much.

Figure out how long you want it to be, then figure you’re going to spend X minutes on feedback, X minutes on ranting and babbling, X minutes on Chug’s segment (or as Daphne suggests, move her segment to In Your Face as it’s own show and make it video) and X minutes on interviews. Give yourself the time for what you want to do so that you don’t feel rushed, some episodes you may adjust so you spend more on one thing than another but don’t let the interview length force you to not do what you want, if the interview goes long and the material is good then split it between multiple episodes.

I’ve listened to all the SLuR episodes, the best ones were the babblecasts with multiple people where you can play off of the different personalities. You definitely are more amusing when you have 3 or more people on with you.

I can honestly say that I’ve found something enjoyable about each of the episodes of SLuR and I look forward to new ones, the only, only thing I can beef about is that you take too long between them.