August 2006 Archives

I discovered something wonderful last week, feedburner.com have started offering podcast download counting as part of their free service! This means that instead of just counting subscribers I can actually keep count of how many people download each show over time.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/diffusionradio

It hasn't been a full week yet, but the numbers are encouraging. On Diffusion Science Radio we may only have around 500 regular subscribers that feedburner can count, but in the last six days we have had 5,496 downloads of 81 shows. Ten times more downloads than subscribers! I can finally talk the same language as other podcasters.

My personal podcast has slowed while I've fought off the Lurgi since the end of May, and I'm still fighting. I haven't posted up my last two broadcasts. However in the last six days there have been 2,080 downloads of my personal podcast, despite only 130 incredibly patient subscribers. The most popular items this week are Demand One Demand, Dolphin Terrorists, Caramel Cars, What Women Look For, and Happy Semen.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/HeresWhy

Ironically Attorney-general Phillip Ruddock has led a new censorship drive starting with the TV show Big Brother, and extending through eight titles he has referred to "The Classification Review Board". They only agreed to censor two of them, so this is his justification for removing freedom of speech and enquiry.

Ruddock is upset that Terror Police raids in Sydney found nasty books. However it turned out that the books were legal, so no charges could be brought against these book-crimes.

Thus, the law must be changed to match Ruddock's views, and the Howard Regime have the power in both houses to do it, and the precedent of the 2005 Terror Laws.

The Review Board banned Defence of the Muslim Lands and Join the Caravan. They have allowed The Ideological Attack, The Criminal West, Jihad in the Qur’an and Sunnah, The Absent Obligation, Islam and Modern Man: The Call of Islam to Modern Man Vol. II, and The Qur’anic Concept of War. They have also allowed the movie Jihad or Terrorism with a PG rating.