Comments on: Surveys! Don’t you love surveys?!

By: Nate the Just OK

Nate the Just OK — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:30:01 +0000

Re: podcast stats. “one of the reasons we’re doing the survey is to figure out how many listeners there are.”

Use FeedBurner ( http://www.feedburner.com ) as an intermediate for your RSS feed url. The basic/free service allows you to track number of subscriptions, number of attachment downloads, and some other stat info. For a fee, they’ll give you all kinds of specific metrics.

Then you give iTunes your feedburner-provided URL for the feed. You can link your feedburner-provided url to a non-iTunes RSS link on your site, etc.

I use this system for my own podcast, and the free service works good enough for my purposes, and works well.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:22:10 +0000

Hey Nate, we can form the S, Arizona chapter of the fanclub.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:02:03 +0000

Should we take the podcast survey if we’re an infrequent listener, or do you want to hear only from people who subscribe through iTunes or listen pretty much every week?

By: Nate the Great

Nate the Great — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:20:43 +0000

I Second that. I’d like to see the geographic and demographic breakdown of Eric D. Snider’s fans. Am I alone in Southern Arizona, or are there other Sniderites lurking in the shadows (of which we have few because we have no trees, just cacti).

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:18:10 +0000

So are we going to hear about the results too? I’d like to know where I fit with the average Snider fan.

By: Rice

Rice — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:48:19 +0000

We don’t get anything? That’s depressing.

By: Eric D. Snider

Eric D. Snider — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:34:59 +0000

Yes, that’s very helpful information, two days ago.

Anyway, Survey Monkey is a Portland company. Think locally, survey globally. Or something.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:57:37 +0000

Eric!! I work for an online survey-programming company. Survey Monkey - for shame!

Check us out at http://www.decipherinc.com.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:33:57 +0000

Okay, I did your survey…..what did I win?

By: Loraine Gholdston

Loraine Gholdston — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:48:45 +0000

“In The Dark” is the only movie review newsletter I read, at least regularly. So far it has never steered me wrong. It’s been very helpful, especially considering that I was never a huge movie watcher until I married into this wonderful family of (nerds) avid movie fanatics.
My favorite part of every review is, quite honestly, the bashing- because it is sincere, intelligent bashing and not just some bored moron with a mouthful of popcorn blithering “this sucks cuz I say it sucks.” I want to know just how badly it sucks, what makes it suck, and if the reviews make me laugh, I’ll read them again and again. Like the review of “September Dawn.” That one was my all- time favorite.
Of course, without “In The Dark,” I probably never would have heard about “Little Miss Sunshine,” one of the most brilliant movies ever filmed, in my humble opinion.