Sidepodcast

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The first ever live show of Sidepodcast turns into the usual edited version where we discuss the idea of rotating your staff, practicing pit stops, and the weather in Valencia.

Intro

We’re live on the internet, which is both scary and brilliant at the same time.

Good Week / Bad Week

Good week for staffing news, with Ron Dennis’ rotation schemes, and Ross Brawn’s technical prowess, but a bad week for Lewis Hamilton’s bags and Finland’s stamps.

News and Views

After Hungary, Kovalainen doesn’t think anything has changed, whilst Coulthard and Gascoyne want things to change. Coulthard questions the future of refuelling after the pit lane fires, and we have some thoughts on that, whilst Gascoyne wants longer life components which is putting people out of business. We also discuss updates on the Valencia track, including wind, sun and rescue attempts.

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Here goes then, our very first attempt at a live Sidepodcast weekly audio show. It’s all a bit new and scary, and we’ve spent most of the morning fiddling with wires and saying “Testing, 1-2″ a lot.

However, things seem to be working, and amazingly it looks like we’re going to be on time. You’re very welcome to join us, get involved, have your say. We’ll be checking the comments all the time for anyone who’s out there, and it should be much more interactive than ever before.

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A couple of months ago the two of us sat around discussing the possibility of trying some kind of live, interactive talk show that we could then release later as a podcast. The general idea was to involve people more in conversation as it happens, rather than post-recording via comments or email.

During the original discussions we’d earmarked the pre-season 2009 as a pretty good time to start such a project, but as you’re likely aware, things snowballed after we found early tryouts heaps of fun and thus plans were brought forward.

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It’s that time again, live streaming comes to Sidepodcast HQ for the second time.

Now, I should preface this post by saying we’re not going to do an entry every time we are record the video. The idea is to set up a ‘Live’ page and give the streaming TV it’s own space. You can keep your eye on the schedule to see when we’re planning to record.

The reason for this blog post, then, (aside from the fact that we haven’t set up the page yet) is that there are changes afoot.

As a bit of a test, we’re moving from UStream.tv to Justin.tv. Personally, I think UStream is a great site, and I’m already missing it, but Justin.tv offers a lot more options. The kind of thing that the techy one gets excited about. So here’s Sidepodcast how Justin see’s it.

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Oh yes, it’s true. I mentioned in the comments earlier this week that there was a peculiar ITV advertisement doing the rounds.

It looked like this:

And read:

Live coverage of Friday’s Practice, this Thursday at 11pm GMT

I clicked the message, but to my disappointment the page didn’t go anywhere. It also didn’t explain whether the content would be online, on television or some kind of mobile service.

Today, ITV announced that they have in fact secured the rights to stream Friday practice on the web. They also have rights to something they’re calling “simulcasts” of qualifying and the race. I can’t for the life of me figure if there’s a difference between live streaming and simulcasting, presumably they mean shown at the same time as on television?

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