I am a terrible blogger. How long has it been since my last update? Wow! Well a lot has happened in the last 2 months, some of which I probably should not blog about.
On the Spacevidcast front a lot of really great stuff has been happening. First we have live High Definition coverage of STS-125. As far a I know we are the only Internet stream that is doing shuttle launches in HD. Even NASA does not do that! During the launch coverage we have some pretty stiff competition from SpaceFlight Now‘s live web stream as well as from traditional TV. For the first time we were able to crush most of our “competition” which was pretty cool. Of course I don’t really view anyone as competition because I believe all ships rise with the tide and I’m excited to see more and more people trying to show off human space flight! It was also nice to have the largest number of concurrent viewers though. Made it feel like all of the work, pains and effort was worth it.
At the end of this month I’ll be leaving for Orlando! The first part of the vacation has nothing to do with Spacevidcast and will be the first time I have had a real vacation in… years! The second half will be for ISDC 2009. We will have live coverage of ISDC 2009 streaming on Spacevidcast (as far as I know the only ones) and we will also be hosting a New Media panel. To say I’m excited is an understatement. I hope we’ll find some good sources there to help relieve some of the financial burden that is Spacevidcast. Monetize or die. I would hate to see Spacevidcast die, I truly believe it is vitally important that we get humans psyched up about human space flight again, and fast!