ModBlog Group Live Modcast news

First off, I just want to say I screwed up. We lost audio for the part of Modcast 7 and it was mostly down to me. I blame the rest on Matt's constant ranting putting me to sleep. Instead of re-recording, we are going to re-purpose the developer interviews into some of the new, improved features we have planned.

While the Modcasts were great, they lack any sort of community interaction and while we tried doing  community questions, they still didn't offer enough audience interaction. After putting down a healthy handful of recorded episodes, both Dave and I think the Modcast would benefit from going live. It will offer more audience interaction (listener calls, real-time chat) and would be a great gathering for the site's who's who of community members every couple of weeks. The downside is developer interviews will not happen every episode, as time zones and scheduling conflicts may make many of them impossible. Instead we will be re-purposing the interviews into another feature. The Modcast will still be the best place for mod talk of all kinds. People will be able to call in with Skype and talk about their project if they want or ask some of their questions directly to any guests we have.

The other thing we want to put out is more video content. We know you guys are appreciating the recent Noesis video features and we're working with them to put out even more stuff. We've got a few more ideas for even more in-depth video content and we're still ironing some kinks out on the best way to put it all together but when it comes, I'm sure you guys will love it.

We'd also like to get more written features out there, and while I'd love to compose more reviews and previews, organizing a lot of this stuff monopolizes my time. If there's any writers out there who would love to come onto the staff and write some reviews or preview mods before anyone else. Send some writing samples my way.

That's all for now, stay tuned.