Flying the Coop
As Formula 1 heads into it’s ‘winter break’ and the daily influx of gossip and rumour fades to a quiet whisper, we figured it would an ideal time to launch a news site!
They don’t pay us the big bucks for nothing, let me tell ya.
Actually, it’s not really a news site per se, we’re just giving F1 Minute a home of it’s own. The recent addition to our podcasting stable, has grown so rapidly and consistently that it’s ready to leave the tender bosom of Sidepodcast, and venture out into the big, bad world on it’s own.
You can view the new site at: http://www.f1minute.com/. It’s still a little wet behind the ears, but basically fit for purpose. Feel free to have a poke around and let us know what you think.
So What’s New?
From a listerner’s perspective, nothing changes. The feed is still in the same place as it always was, so if you’ve subscribed to the podcast, you’ll not miss a moment’s news. iTunes and various other podcast directories are already pointing to the new location and we’ve moved all posts and comments across to the new domain.
Additionally Christine has created a Twitter thingy, to keep you bang up-to-date with the latest in news and gossip. Just in case the idea of ‘F1 news every single weekday’, is simply not enough information for you.
So Why Change?
We’ve created a new home for F1 minute, because it was getting a little bit swamped by all the action on this site. Many search engines struggled to pick up the latest posts and because it didn’t get a look-in on the homepage, not everybody spotted it.
Additionally we’ve picked a pretty solid hosting company (that I believe is the same as Ollie’s), which should give us an extra layer of stability after some of the hosting problems we’ve had here. Ideally we’d like to move to Amazon’s EC2 cloud, but the technology is too immature to make the jump right now. Media Temple offer a good compromise, which is less flexible, but not so cutting-edge.
What About Embedded Content?
If you’ve jumped on board and added the embeddable F1 Minute player to your site / blog / forum, we’ve not forgotten you. The good news is you don’t have to change a single line of code. You’ve probably noticed that today’s episode is still happily running on your site and it will continue to do so.
However, if you’ve got five minutes to spare, we do recommend that you take a look at the new sharing page. The code listed there has been tweaked in order to point to the new domain. Upgrading code on your site will enable you to benefit from the increased reliability that the new host’s offer us, and we’ll also be adding new players and customised embed options to that page soon.
Just to re-iterate, you don’t have to change anything, we know you’re busy people and we don’t like to impose.
In Conclusion
So, there you have it. New domain, new host, better stability and a web site dedicated solely to the vocals of Ms. Blachford.
Oh, I almost forgot. The new site is entirely at the disposal of the gravelly-voiced damsel, there’ll not be an anti-McLaren post in sight (although I might stop by with some inflammatory comments). If you thought she had a lot on her plate before, you’ve not seen nothing yet!
Please stop by and say “howdy”, leave a comment or peruse at your leisure. As always, thoughts, ideas and criticism are readily welcomed.
December 13th, 2007 at 1:30 pmOllie said:
Congratulations on F1 Minute, I like hearing success stories and this appears to be a very well deserved one. And I hope (mt) work out for you. In the short time I’ve been with them I’ve had only one issue and even then it wasn’t necessarily their fault.
Best of luck with the ‘new’ venture.
December 13th, 2007 at 2:44 pma.k.a. the Blue Orange Lion said:
Good idea to give F1 Minute a proper website. By the way, does the title of this post have anything to do with Twin Peaks (’Your partner flew the coop, Coop!’), it’s unlkely, but anyway…
December 13th, 2007 at 6:46 pmDan said:
Love it. Great work!
December 13th, 2007 at 8:20 pmF1 Minute Has Moved | Sidepodcast : Your Weekly F1 Podcast said:
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December 13th, 2007 at 8:22 pmme said:
cool. it seems a tiny bit ‘laggy’, but i’m guessing that’s because the server’s now located in the US.
be interested to know if any US listeners find the f1minute.com loading time, quicker or slower than this site?
December 13th, 2007 at 8:23 pmme said:
erm, gonna have to say, no.
December 13th, 2007 at 11:36 pmbrendan stallard said:
“be interested to know if any US listeners find the f1minute.com loading time, quicker or slower than this site?”
Me,
I’m on a pretty solid/speedy connection of 6 (real) mips, (Virgin Media Mips) with Comcast Atlanta and both sites come up about the same as far as I can judge.
If I had to say one was faster: I’d say F1 minute, but it’d be a darn close run thing, and frankly, not worth bothering about on broadband.
I am extremely sensitive to sound: and to me the sound quality from the website player on F1 minute sounds better than the podcast from Itunes. That just a non objective opinion, I haven’t measured the KBPS:)
brendan
December 14th, 2007 at 1:19 pmme said:
keen to learn more about this.
the file is exactly the same in both instances, but mp3’s playback using different codecs in each instance.
December 14th, 2007 at 4:37 pmbrendan stallard said:
Me,
It started off a short response: then turned lengthy, and folks might find it a bit woffle full:) so I’ve sent it to you via email.
brendan