The End
Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge call a day to Shot Of Jaq, and reminisce about the experience. Thanks to all of you for all of your wonderful discussions and contributions; it has been a blast!
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I’ll be sorry to see you guys go… again… will miss you’re insight and conversation provocation. Funnily the shot-casting idea is actually harder for me to listen to as I generally don’t listen to streams until I’m walking the dog, and faffing about with Amarok or my iAudio to get a 10min segment which I won’t be able to reply to either while I’m out and about… but then perhaps I’m just a dinosaur living in the past!
TTFN! It’s been an interesting experiment!
Well done guys, nob-gags were all above par and well constructed. Good luck!
Sorry to see it go, but it’s been a good run. Good luck with your other things.
Thanks for the shows you did make – this isn’t the end of the Aq/Bacon podcast double act, right?
I will miss SoJ. I may well try out shotcasting though, as it might be precisely the right tool for what I have in mind.
Ill miss the good quick podcasts and hope that it can be resurrected when you guys have some time.
I’m gutted, what’s gonna get me through the week now?!
I had an idea though… imagine a site like this, but anyone can submit their own “shots”, sort of like a shotcasting planet, but with some kind of rating system so the best shotcasters filter to the top. That would rock.
Hacker Public Radio works like this except without the rating system.
It may be worth investigating.
It’s like a little piece of my insides is dying all over again. Between LugRadio and SoJ, I’ve often felt like I’d love to sit down with the two of you and buy you a few pints. If you’re ever in Colorado, let me know.
You shall be missed! For the past nine months I’ve looked forward to a regular ’shot’ on Tuesdays and Fridays and it will be SORELY MISSED! What can I say, thanks for every show. Thanks for the lively and insightful contents, the commitment and originality.
Rats. Just as I start to listen to a ‘cast is gets canned. Ah well, all the best!
boo! the inter-tubes are gonna miss this show, your episodes were a bright point in my week. fare thee well, i’m going to go find a flask to drown my sorrows.
I’ve been a listener for two months, and I’m sad to see the show go.
Thanks for the great audio.
Stay free, stay open source.
I’ve really enjoyed this, gents. Hope to see (hear?) more from you soon!
I’m sorry to hear this is the end of it all. I think what you brought to Linux oriented podcasting (here and before SOJ in LugRadio) was the idea that podcasting could be an entertaining social occasion rather than a cure for insomnia. It was witty, fast paced, and well produced. Linux Outlaws is the only comparable podcast that I can think of, and they have more of a news oriented nature rather than just picking topics that take their fancy.
I had thought that twice a week was going be a bit ambitious. The shot-cast idea is a good one, but once a week is probably more sustainable for most people.
I have a feeling the two of you will turn up again somewhere and I’ll look forward to it.
Thanks a lot, guys, it was always fun to listen to it! Hope you’ll have another idea for a podcast soon, maybe with a less demanding release schedule. Preferably one where you argue more like in the good old LUGRadio days (in shot of jaq you were agreeing far too often…)!
All the best, take your time, and come back with a new show!
I will miss your voices. Thanks for all the interesting discussions. Good luck
Thanks guys, it was an ambitious project! I have to say, though, that although you say that the short-shot format was popular, I cast my vote in the other direction. I really enjoyed going for a long walk with LugRadio and other long-format podcasts, or listening to them while doing the dishes, or gardening, or whatever. Finding the time to listen was never a problem.
Thank god, now we can finally get back to the lugradio
Did you finally get sick of the slap bass?
Fookin’ glad I didn’t get that tattoo.
Bugger just started listening two weeks ago. Had two large shots (all April to June shows) travelling at weekend, made the journey flyby. Great shows must have taken a lot of work. Great work.
Awaiting the return of LugRadio.
Well, This was great site and I hope Jono and Stuart Langridge or as I call him the other guy, go on to do something as cool and interesting as shot of jaq. Open source forever
A job well done good sirs
I hate to hear it, I’ve enjoyed it.
All the best, guys, and thanks very much.
Did you consider you were actually doing too many? I got about five or six behind at one point, and so by the time I listened to them, the discussion had finished. I could have just skipped them, but it seemed a shame to do that.
If the punishing schedule is a problem, why not cut back? I wouldn’t call that half-assed, I’d call it realistic
Regularity is over-rated.
Also, putting out a new one probably restricts the conversation on previous ones. So if people are a bit late to the party, they arrive to find that no-one has commented for three days and the tumbleweeds are blowing past.
I’d love to have got into a habit of listening to them on the go. The things which scuppered that were a) no decent podcasting clients for Android, and b) HTC’s brain-dead decision to use ExtUSB instead of a sensible headphone jack in the G1, requiring me to carry an adapter everywhere. And, as you say, the podcast clients don’t allow me to join the conversation.
Another thought: was the conversation fragmented? I read the website, but I never saw the tweets, dents, emails or other parts of it. If you want everyone in one big conversation, you either want some very cool integrating technology, or you need to restrict the number of mediums people are allowed to use.
It’s also hard to follow the conversation once you’ve been in it. This website doesn’t even have the “email me new comments” box – as I have just heard Aq mention as I’m typing!
I hope all this is interesting to you, and perhaps helpful to people following in your footsteps.
Lastly, this tweet reminds me of the end of the seminal 1990 movie “Pump up the Volume” with Christian Slater (have you seen it?):
“mitechie: testing with the new mic in prep for Rick’s Rants podcasts. Shame shotofjaq ends just as I startup my show they inspired http://is.gd/dr1vs“
Gerv
Yeah you pretty much fail at doing this so it’s better that you gave up
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Seriously now thanks for doing it. It was great and I do hope this format goes on with other podcasts.
Shame it had to end. I’ve enjoyed the shows, but am amazed there have been so many. The time has flown by.
So thanks guys. I’m sure we’ll hear from you again, as we know you can’t resist broadcasting your opinions to boost your massive egos
NOOOOOOOOO! Now there will be a 10 to 20 minute void a week in my life! Sorry to see it go.
Thats a shame. You could have sacrificed frequency instead of quality?
Hi folks,
I’m also sorry to see you go, but here’s to hoping a new lugradio show rises from the ashes…
All the best for your future projects!
Uwe
Oh man, I’d just reached the bottom of the “Shot Of Jaq Regulars” and was ready to work my way up!
Bye guys, the show was entertaining while it lasted, I really hope that somebody does take up the app of jaq and convert it for another shotcast. All the best with your projects/work, thanks for the entertainment and thought provoking conversation,
I fell about 4 eps behind, and then I spot this, absolutely gutted. Really enjoyed the show, thought it was just getting better and better. I’d be happy to listen less frequently, any chance we could tempt you back for a few specials in the future?
All the best, thanks for such a great idea and all the hard work you put into it, made it a pleasure to listen to.
=(
Prescient move; the Internet will be coming to an end as well in about 12-18 months, and the other End is going to neither pretty, nor particularly fun to write about… best of luck with whatever comes next…
Now I’m curious..
I think I’ll probably miss Shot of Jaq, although if I have to brutally honest, they were getting slightly tedious, maybe the fact that it was a tight schedule somehow started showing up in your voices? :p
Good luck with everything else guys!
This was a very very interesting experiment – have been listening weekly since Jono mentioned it on twit and have been hooked since.
Good luck with everything.
Stages of Grief: 1. Denial and Isolation.
This can’t be happening. You left Floss weekly, and now Shot of Jaq? I feel so alone.
Well eff you. Mr. “Art of Community” eff you. What does this say about comunity?! You like to effing kick us to the flipping curb whenever we’re not convenient.
Hey man, don’t stop. I promise I’ll come by and add to the discussion. I’m sorry I never added to the discussion before. It’s just that I like to listen, and think about it on my own.
Yet one more person who has let me down.
Eff you man. I ain’t accepting this. I’m probably going to switch distros. Even if you do start the show back up I won’t know because I’ve already deleted you from my rss reader.
I will surely miss Shot Of Jaq. It’s been great.
Sorry to see this podcast go, it was good while it lasted. Looking forward to more from you guys in the future.
hmmm just when I was starting to get into it, I only just started to listen, ah well it was good, all the best guys
This is what I get for being to busy to check in on the show for a while, gutted. You guys were awesome and I will miss it. Heck I still miss Lugradio. Still hopefully you guys will get the podcast bug again as some point, I guess I’ll just have to look forward to whatever you guys come up with next. Thanks for both the amazing shows you’ve given us so far, they’ve been incredible. Hope we hear from you again soon.
Thanks guys. I’ve enjoyed listening to your podcast.