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Changes Coming Soon to a blog Near You!

When we launched WoodworkingOnline.com, we had no idea what would become of it. We just knew that we needed an outlet to talk about all things woodworking. Well, it’s grown in popularity, thanks to you. The number of folks like you that read our pages every month keeps increasing, and we are excited.

Since we’ve started posting videos of our weekly seminars at the Woodsmith Store, we were shocked and very pleasantly surprised at their popularity. Thousands of folks all over the U.S. and Canada and beyond are downloading and watching our videos. We started doing it on a trial basis and were overwhelmed by their success. So overwhelmed, in fact, that our web group here at August Home Publishing is concerned about the load it places on our web servers when so many folks download our videos. So they’re working on expanding our capacity.

And to make it easier to navigate the blog to get to the videos, we’ll be making some changes to the layout of the blog you’re reading now. In the meantime, you’ll notice in the upper right margin that all the videos are listed under “Featured Articles.” And you can you can see them all listed on one page by following this link:

http://www.woodworkingonline.com/category/podcast

So…stay tuned and check back here often for changes that will make WoodworkingOnline.com your favorite woodworking blog. We’ve even got some freebies we’re working on that you’ll be able to download and use in your shop. But that’s all I’m saying right now. You’ll just have to wait to find out what it is…

Posted on Wednesday, January 24th, 2007 at 9:29 am. Filed under Woodworking.
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3 Responses to “Changes Coming Soon to a blog Near You!”

Moshe Eshel said,

You might want to consider distributing it through BitTorrent servers, it will take a huge load off your servers, and will enable faster downloads for users.

(posted on January 25th, 2007 at 10:53 am)

Brian VanHeuverswyn said,

Hi Moshe,

When we look at the number of people downloading our podcasts, it’s a very small percentage of customers that download the podcasts directly from the WoodworkingOnline.com website. The majority of our customers access our “feed” via iTunes.

We agree that BitTorrent is a very cool and dynamic technology. But unfortunately, BitTorrent does not work with iTunes. So, implementing it would only benefit the small group of people that actually download the podcasts directly from the website. And, to take it a step further, of those people that do download the files directly, it’s our feeling that only a very small percentage of those people would actually use BitTorrent to access our files.

So, while we agree that the technology would be a neat addition, we’re focusing our resources elsewhere to try and make things work as well as possible for the most people.

Thanks again for the suggestion….being an I.T. guy, I love trying new things. So, please don’t hesitate to offer up any more suggestions. We may not always be able to accomodate you, but we’ll certainly listen and entertain the ideas.

All the best,

Brian VanHeuverswyn
I.T. Manager
August Home Publishing

(posted on January 26th, 2007 at 11:29 am)

Karl Rookey said,

I’m wondering if there’s any way to reduce the size of your video podcasts: my connection is not super slow, but the size of your podcasts makes viewing them an hour or more investment in downloading.

(posted on January 28th, 2007 at 10:34 am)

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