Hey,
I was curious - can you track how many times a file has been downloaded and such? Such as the interviews - I wanna know which one’s more popular and all so I can kind of decide which people should be prioritised and such. Voice actors, writer, what..?
Also, just need feedback from you guys: What’s been your favourite interview so far? Just so I know what people we can find from Thundercats to interview for the website.
Chris here…
In terms of tracking the downloads, to be honest I have no idea - either MannyF or Kyle will be the guys in the know for that one! 
In terms of favourite interviews, I have two - Lynne Lipton, just because it’s awesome to finally hear a full, detailed interview with her after all these years, and also Stephen Perry, whose anecdotes and such I thought were the most honest and insightful - clearly as he’s no longer connected with anyone at Rankin-Bass he can be completely honest without fear of it coming back to haunt him!
Take care…
Not sure whether our host gives you that sort of information or not. Manny should be able to tell you that. If not we could devise a system where the downloader is diverted through a page before they download an interview. This page can then have a counter on it.
Either way it should be possible.
p.s Back from holiday now. Working on a new ThunderCast solution (itunes issues) Will post what I have been working on sometime in the next two days.
It’s not a priority thing - was actually just curious (hence the title :p) so I can find out which interviews people prefer.
If we get an interview with Peter Newman, I think we’d be all set as we’d be getting a mega-exclusive interview. 
We do have a stats tracking software that the host provides. I can check the stats and report back on that.
As far as favorite interviews, I have to agree with Chris and say that Lynne Lipton’s interview was by far the best.
The fact that no one has been able to get an interview with her and all of sudden you come along and break that barrier is freaking awesome. Getting her perspective of her experience on the show is a fresh of breath air as well.
I also liked the Kimberly Morris interview too.
I’m a HUGE fan of Earl Hyman, so if you somehow manage to get an interview with him (which is probably going to be the hardest of them all), I’ll be all over it. 
All in due course, Manny. I’m working on it.
I think the Peter Lawrence will be the best interview yet - I have to actually do a whole lot of editing and maybe possibly re-record the part with Johnny Quest (which he thinks was badly done and wants me to show him before we decide on anything) but it’s still an absolutely wonderful interview and should be one of our main ones yet. Depending on whether Peter Newman gets in touch, the next I’ll focus one is Gerrianne Raphael since she’s a voice-actor and so is probably one of the most interesting since she’s not well known.
I’m actually thinking that after Dennis J. Woodyard, we should break it off with interviewing writers. We’ve interviewed 3 so far (Lawrence, Morris and S. Perry) and it might get a bit much - we can still do the interviews but hold off on putting them up for download for a few weeks so we can range it up and have ‘exclusives’ and all. Don’t know what you guys think.. since Leonard Starr has been absolutely impossible to get, we’re running out of writers to get in touch with and find individual perspective. But I’ll act on what you guys think. Then again, the more interviews and the more content we have will add to the website. But the stuff we have is special already.. thoughts?
I don’t have the exact numbers, but the most downloaded interview is Lynne Lipton, followed by Larry Kenney, then Bernie Hoffer. The host removed the public stats software, so that sucks.
And the ranking is for this month. I’ll have to look at July.
Edit: Just checked, and wow…Lynne Lipton’s interview was downloaded a total of 250 times!! That’s really great news! That interview is followed by Stephen Perry, then Larry Kenney.
For all the fuss of Larry’s interviews being redundant, it seems everyone still has some interest in what he has to say. 
That’s excellent. Great number, too. I think these ‘exclusive’ interviews work well for us - so the upcoming interviews like Gerrianne Raphael and Jim Meskimin, along with Peter Lawrence which no other Thundercats websites have, we should be getting great numbers.
The Peter Lawrence interview should have an update of it’s own - after that, I’ll go for Gerrianne Raphael and Jim in terms of conducting/editing. Depending on whether P. Newman and Earle Hyman get back to me, they’re biggest priority so I’ll stick all others on the backburner to conduct interviews with them first.