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Next Monday's Mellow Monday show is posted in advance for forum members only.

Remember the Sleepy Sunday Show? Well, exclusively for forum members only there will be a special surprise in a few weeks.

Want to become a forum member?

1. go to forums.tartanpodcast.com
2. register
3. look out for the email that will be sent to the email address you've provided
4. click the authenticate link within the email
5. log in
6. read, comment, post
7. put up a comment under this thread to enter the competition

It's been a while coming but there are finally ads (well, an ad) in the tartapodcast.

It's one of those spoken word endorsements where I endorse a service. And it's not just me endorsing it. No, I have my 6 year old son and 20 month old daughter shilling it also.

The service is www.netfreeipods.com and all you need to do is enter 'tartanpodcast' into the first page, then follow the instructions to get a free iPod Nano. I've had a look over it and it seems legit, but be sure to check it our for yourself and remember to enter 'tartanpodcast' in the box.

Anyway, go over, sign up and help me pay for Cameron's school shoes.

Download, print, post!  Use this handy poster to advertise the tartanpodcast around your school, college campus or workplace.  Post it on noticeboards and tape it to lamp posts.  Win friends by switching them onto the best music they haven't heard yet.

You'll be glad you did and email me the pictures of the results.

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Edinburgh's alt-country kings Dropkick are set to release their fourth (?) album entitled 'Obvious'. The release date is 22nd July and will feature a launch party at Caledonian Backpackers in Edinburgh. Full details on their site, link below.

If you're a podcaster in the Edinburgh area head along and we'll meet up as it's likely I'll be there.

Look for a review of the album here soon, my advance copy arrived this morning and while I haven't had the chance to listen to it yet (3 albums arrived at once from various bands) the cover and sleeve art is genius.

Until the 22nd of July you can sate your appetite for new Dropkick material by visiting their MySpace page where they have two new tracks.

While you're clicking outwith tartanpodcast.com, be sure to visit my Scotcast page and throw me a vote/review. Huge thanks to those who have done so already. Cheers guys.
Dropkick's site

Dropkick's MySpace

Feel free to use it.

Dear Diary,

It seems like a long time since I wrote anything of substance here. Well, that's because I've been busy. You know what it's like, Diary, work, family, football, they all eat time.

Of course I've been busy working on the Mellow Monday Show and the Old Firm Podcast. I've even made up a new picture for the Old Firm Podcast. What do you think?

I hope you can listen to it when you get the chance. I've been playing about with iWeb on my Mac computer, creating little websites. It's been fun.

The summer holidays are almost here, so I'll be off for a bit, but I promise to make sure there are enough Mellow Monday Shows to keep you going.

I've changed the feed for the tartanpodcast, so if you aren't subscribed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/tartanpodcast please change over to it now. If you've got iTunes just click here. If you don't want to use iTunes, just install Winpodder (if you're running Windows), I've put a link over on the right. The man who created it has included the tartanpodcast as one of the default subscriptions, which is very nice. It's weird though, I seem to have lost a lot of listeners this month. Maybe messing about with the feed has something to do with it. Oh well, hopefully you'll all come back.

A lot of people have completed the listener survey, which is very kind, thanks. I got an email with all of the information you've written in the survey. I got to find out the things you like most and least about the tartanpodcast. Very interesting! Some of you like it when I talk, some of you hate it. One of you really doesn't like my sense of humour. If you haven't filled out the survey, please take a few minutes to do so.

The Hollywood Podcast has be brilliant recently, with host Tim really letting the listeners into his life. Fascinating.

Podcast User Magazine is coming out in a week or so. I've finished my 'Mark: My Words' column. I've written about Podshow coming to the UK and podcasters back-pedaling as a result. I've also created the magazine cover again this coming month. The magazine is still free and even though the publishers didn't make big grand promises at the start, it's managed to reach 6 issues, being the world's first podcast related magazine.

Ok that's about it for now, Diary. Hope you're doing well.

Mark

Why does it have to be so complicated?

Anyway, what was happening was this; I was putting the shows up on Libsyn as I'd always done, but Libsyn and Feedburner - who I used to measure the subscribers - weren't talking nicely to each other; the shows weren't showing up on iTunes or in the Feedburner feed.

So I deleted the Libsyn feed from Feedburner and then tried to reinstate it, but it was rejected by Feedburner for being too big; it contained every single podcast I'd released apart from the first 3.

I downloaded Feeder and used that to create a brand new feed, which would then be used in conjunction with Feedburner. And that seemed to work nicely, plus it gave me more control over the content of the feed, how it would look on iTunes etc.

Ok, if you used the http://feeds.feedburner.com/tartanpodcast feed you would have been catching, in order, the Libsyn feed, the blogger feed (www.tartanpodcast.blogspot.com) and now my new feed - http://homepage.mac.com/mjhunter/feed/tp.xml.

The problem has been compounded by the fact that I don't know which feed is listed on iTunes. Search the iTunes music store for 'tartan' and lo and behold the tartanpodcast shows up, but I don't know what the underlying feed for it is. Is it the Libsyn feed of the Feedburner feed? I've no clue. What I do know is that on iTunes the tartanpodcast isn't showing the latest episodes. However if you subscribe to it the latest ep. downloads. Weird.

The upshot of all this feed tomfoolery is that I seem to have lost some of you. About 4000 of you. Yeah. Will I get you back as listeners? I hope so.

Here's what to do. If you're using iTunes, click here;

If you don't want to use iTunes, try Winpodder;

And if you just want the feed;

Any questions? Well, it's clear I've no clue what I'm doing so don't ask me.

Just kidding. Post your Qs here or on the forum and I'll do my best to sort you out. And be patient, I'm an amateur.

Full show notes available via the website - http://mellowmonday.thepodcastnetwork.com.
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Never apologise for not liking all of the music you hear on the tartanpodcast; you're not meant to. Some of it will be a challenge, your task is to listen, digest, comment.

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I've got a page on Scotcast.net, which is proving to be a great resource for Scottish podcasts.

If you can give the tartanpodcast some love over there I'd really appreciate it - click through to my Scotcast page here, throw down a vote, write a review!

Your reward will be great....