No this isn’t some rant about commute casting (which I like , but the sad news that after Dave McDowell’s recent car accident, now Ken from the Ken and Squip Show has been in a car accident.

Love to both, I hope Ken is OK but I am starting to wonder if podcasters should avoid the infernal combustion engine in the near future…

Ok checking through my logs for the first time in ages – have to say thanks to the people over at Maximum PC for featuring me in their fave podcasts recently! http://www.maximumpc.com/how_to/reprint_2005-03-15.html

Also I need to recheck my logs because this *couldn’t be right* – I can live with 21,586 visitors to MutantPop in the last week – scary thought but MutantPop has many parts – but it’s telling me I have 13,695 visitors to my feed and my top browser is iPodder:

1 iPodder/1.1.4 +http://ipodder.sf.net/ Hits: 3,304 Visitors: 2,726 12.89%
2 iPodder/2.0 +http://ipodder.sf.net/ Hits: 3,207 Visitors: 2,324 10.99%
3 iPodderX/2.2.8 (http://iPodderX.com) Hits: 2,381 Visitors: 2,160 10.21%

If that (+ all the other RSS/podcasting clients, from Nimiq, Dopple, NNW, Bloglines etc, I haven’t counted the ones I haven’t heard of) is correct I can’t have nearly 12,000 subscribers? I assume my log is seeing them as hits.

Still 12,000 hits just from Podcasting/RSS clients in a week? …but if everyone has their clients set to check every 30 minutes (worst case scenario – I guess actually most people have the default set which for iPodder is 2 or 4 hours) it’s 139 people. Phew.

Anyone know of more reliable ways to analyse these logs (or check for unique visitors) cos I’m sure I don’t have 12,000 subscribers…or do I? =:-o

Show 21 including a DJ NoNo exclusive boot, a Beatles minimix and Why Don’t You.

Quite a few bootlegs unavailable there – so watch Classic Boots over the next week or so and they might just turn up

• Allen Dean (aka GHP) - Rapture Riders
• Lyn Collins – Think (more about her and other tracks check out the great Soul-Sides blog)

I Don’t Believe in Beatles mix:


• Negativland - Helter Stupid
• Residents – Valley of the day in the Life
• Little Big Horns – Come Back
• Cheekyboys – Baby Got Silly Love Songs
• GHP – Beautiful Outkast Band
• Mountain Con – Variations on Outkast, The White Stripes, and John Lennon (you can hear/get this track by going to the Strangely Familiar website and clicking on Listen > March exclusives )
• Sean Connery – In My Life
• News – Bastard 76
• DJ NoNo – Stripper Jackson (Exclusive!)
• Partyben - Hey Metro
• DJ Prince – Hey We Will Rock Ya
• Langley Schools Music project – In My Room

Click there to listen to Show 21 (30mb) > http://www.realityengine.co.uk/radioclash/show-archive/rc_show21.mp3

As an Easter treat here is 3 boots for the Classic Boots list – first one up is Soundhog’s classic ‘ I Feel You Really Caught Me On Edge’ from 2002, tying nicely in with the new LCD album (3 years? wow) and 2 Jackson lawyer-baiting boots including the classic grandaddy of them all, ‘Breathe Don’t Stop’ (the original).

You can find these all at http://www.mutantpop.net/board/viewforum.php?f=17 (#9, #10 and #11).You have to be a member of MutantPop to get these boots, all contracts are binding, your home may be at risk if you do not keep up payments, offer only extends to Saturn.

No, Me neither…

Don’t forget you can also sign up to the Classic Boots list and get bestial porn and spam boots straight to your door. If you keep your computer on your doorstep that is.

OK Bastard 76 has been announced and it’s a corker – classic mashup artist Freelance Hellraiser (Roy!) is playing, along with DJs Diabolique and of course the Cartel guys.

It’s first Thursday of the month as usual (the 7th April), at the Asylum, Percy St, London (basement club under the, err, newsagents)

Full flyer here.

Be there or be, well, elsewhere…(probably a lot less hot and slightly less flat, but you have to suffer for your art)