Two Years of Watir Podcast

Numbers

A few days ago it was 2 years since I published the first Watir Podcast.

In this 2 years I have published 34 podcasts with people literally all over the world. Lately I am trying to produce a podcast a month, and I am trying to keep it about 30 minutes long. I have recorded podcasts as short as 5 minutes, but also longer than 70 minutes.

Google Analytics and FeedBurner say the numbers are (mostly) going up. FeedBurner says about 100 people is subscribed to the podcast feed lately.

The following table lists downloads since December 2009, when I started using Podtrac. The first number is total downloads, the second number is unique downloads. Please notice #26. :)

I am glad to see that podcasts as old as 1 or even 2 years are still downloaded.

episode	total/unique
#34 Zhimin Zhan on TestWise	70/57
#33 Jake Dempsey and Brian Knorr on Watij and UISpec	221/191
#32 Brent Strange	276/249
#31 Jari Bakken and Simon Stewart on Watir 2.0, Selenium and WebDriver, Celerity and HtmlUnit	379/331
#30 Jim Knowlton on Using Watir for Exploratory Testing	402/373
#29 Bret Pettichord and Charley Baker on Past, Present and Future of Watir	283/262
#28 Tom Copeland on SafariWatir	225/217
#27 Angrez Singh on FireWatir	199/188
#26 Alister Scott on Watir.com	1,408/448
#25 Dave Hoover on SafariWatir and Software Craftsmanship	206/186
#24 MarekJ and Charley Baker	167/166
#23 Željko Filipin	171/168
#22 Bret Pettichord on WatirCraft	168/165
#21 Alister Scott on Watif	158/156
#20 Sai Venkatakrishnan	164/154
#19 Bret Pettichord on Git	143/137
#18 Rick Hower on AWTA 2009	129/127
#17 Deniz Türkoglu on AWTA 2009	137/132
#16 MarekJ on AWTA 2009	144/143
#15 Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory on AWTA 2009 and Agile Testing	168/159
#14 Steve Kim on AWTA 2009	138/134
#13 Alister Scott on AWTA 2009	140/137
#12 Bernie Miles and Stanislaw Wozniak on AWTA 2009 and Sponte	125/118
#11 Alan Baird on AWTA 2009	120/118
#10 Charley Baker on AWTA 2009	131/125
#9 Paul Rogers	156/147
#8 Alister Scott	140/138
#7 Bret Pettichord on FireWatir	186/182
#6 Tiffany Fodor	155/154
#5 Walter Kruse	109/107
#4 Jeroen van Menen on WatiN	159/147
#3 MarekJ	159/154
#2 Charley Baker	124/121
#1 Bret Pettichord on Watir	170/164

Thank You

After two years, what to say? It was a lot of fun, I hope it will not end soon.

I would like to thank everybody that wanted to talk with me. I would probably stop recording podcast if I did not have a lot of help from Watir Podcast Team. A big thank you to all of you that co-hosted a podcast, contributed music and logo, worked on the web site, edited audio... I could not do it without you.

I would like to thank Bret Pettichord for agreeing to record the first podcast, Alan Baird that worked on the web site, and Gregg Yows that co-hosted a lot of times and contributed a lot of music.

I would probably give up a long time ago if Tiffany Fodor did not offer to edit the audio and create show notes. Tiffany, thank you.

Also, a bit thank you to every listener. Yes, you too. Well, if you were not listening, all this would not make a lot of sense.

If you have some time, and you would like to contribute to the podcast, please let me know. I need help with finding guests, co-hosting, I am always looking for music that can be published under a Creative Commons licence... If you would like to take over Watir Podcast, let me know. I would help you with everything. I have other stuff to do, but if nobody is interested, I will not let the podcast die.

I did not mention a lot of people by name, because this blog post would end up being too long. You know who you are. Yes, you. Thanks.