I’m surprised no one here has pointed out my poor, poor math skills. The difference between 3,000 and 900 is clearly 2,100 subscribers, not the 1,100 I mentioned in the announcement. Give me the blues, baseball and Linux—not math (even simple math)!

I’m accumlating quite a collection of pins in Britain. I’ve obviously always known about the British love of the blues, but it’s great to see firsthand that The Roadhouse has a nice audience there. It’s a country I’ll get to one of these days – with Scots/Irish and Welsh ancestry, it’d be a visit to the old homeland.

If you’d like to send a tip by mail, send me an email. I’ll send along my home address.

I am a rowdy regular of the Roadhouse (luckily, I haven’t been tossed out yet). Many thanks. Assuming your objective, having already covered your basic expenses, is to recoup something for your time, I have a number of thoughts on advertising.

First, is that you are advertising already by playing a song and mentioning the artist and label. So, you could say artist and label are being paid (but not you). Perhaps not as much as they’d like, of course (they’d prefer a royalty), but perhaps they should share with you.

Second, have you considered a subscription versus advertising? Say, doing this full time you’d pay yourself $100,000 annually; at roughly 8 hrs./week, that’s 20% of what you might expect to put in at a full time job, so annually this would be $20,000. Divided by 3000 listeners this amounts to $6.66/yr. per listener. Now we can’t possibly expect all 3000 listeners to subscribe (no DRM, honors system), so let’s say a third do. Hey, I’d be willing to subscribe for $20.

By the way, is there a way to make a donation? (I don’t use Paypal.)

Jim

Re-subscribed and while you are at it, can you stick a pin over here in North West England.

Love the show, Thanks

Kev Hoggarth, Thornton, UK

Have fun.

Marek.

I’ve got your pin up there in the mental world map of listeners. Thanks for listening.

IT geek here, too (Linux-type geek and co-author of a couple Linux books). And, sometime musician, as well. The latter has faded a bit, but I started playing piano at 4 years old and picked up 5 other instruments over the years. I still play guitar, but only for myself.

I got a boatload of subscribers from Doc’s mentions on his blog. I helped him get set up for his podcast, too, but we haven’t talked in awhile.

And, if you started listening at show 25 – man, that was a fun show, but very atypical of the normal shows. That took about a week to put together, but I was pretty happy with how it turned out.

Thanks so much. The ad part of it is secondary, really, but I do want to be very careful about the content and context.