Monday Night Live
Last night, on our way home from dinner, I asked Ponzi if she’d come on cam to say hi to everybody who was tuned in. I told her there were probably 100 people in there and she said there probably wasn’t. We quickly discovered the chat room count sitting at 79, so she dismissed me and went about her nightly business. I told the chat room that Ponzi wouldn’t return unless we had at least 100 people in chat.
Minutes later, people were twittering away - asking their friends to join the fun. Then someone decided to post to Digg. In less than a half hour, our chat room swelled to over 400 people - actively asking questions. I was answering them in rapid-fire succession. Our server was taking quite a hit, but we kept going thanks to everybody (SubWolf, Sean, usrbingeek, LordKat, Bear, Kat, Freekie, IslandDave, SC_Thor, Ryan, Pierce (and I hope I’m not leaving anybody out).
We had a total blast - and someone suggested that Ponzi do a live cooking show, taking questions from the audience all the while. I think she’ll do it, but I don’t know when. The site is streaming 24/7 (and the community is buzzing, thanks to new friends from Facepunch. All in all, this is nothing more than an ongoing experiment - but it’s turning out to be quite successful (espeically for our existing sponsors, I can safely say).
7 Comments
Christine
April 17th, 2007
at 12:12pm
Ha! Too funny - I just came to get your e-mail address because when I was checking out http://www.rouxbe.com I thought of you & Ponzi! Check it out, it is pretty sweet!
(Now amused to see Erica in the photos in your header. Must find way to get to Gnomedex at last, after all these years.)
Keef
April 17th, 2007
at 12:16pm
As fun and entertaining as that was, it’s going to be hard to do that every night and it does get boring, so it will be good if you/your wife could do a cooking segment IMO.
Gerald
April 17th, 2007
at 4:29pm
I had fun last night, great stuff! But now, i m trying to connect to the irc chat and it isn’t working on my mac, in the window. I tried an outside clien as well, but I don’t think that worked either. Know whats up?
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April 18th, 2007
at 6:56am
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FunnyAnimalVideos.com
April 18th, 2007
at 9:59pm
I’ve got some video footage of the rapid fire q&a and some of the insanity that went on… as soon as I get more time I’ll edit and stick it up on youtube :)
Sara
April 24th, 2007
at 3:38pm
An occastional live cooking show would be fun, especially if Ponzi were teaching you how to cook!
SocioBiblog
July 11th, 2007
at 9:15am
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