Agenda:

1. How to subscribe to a feed with Google Reader
2. Subscribe to the  Radiohead’s Dead Air Space feed url - (feed url is:http://www.radiohead.com/deadairspace/deadairspace.rss)
3. Subscribe to US
   1. http://feeds.feedburner.com/wholesalemeatmediablog
   2. http://feeds.feedburner.com/yakface
   3. http://feeds.feedburner.com/salamano
4. Great Octavio’s in History: Octavio Paz
5. Musical Item: “Us” by the Well Meaning Shells

Sorry it goes for 12 minutes - please skip through

Podcast 3 mp3 file

Jacob and Jamie for VAF

Here is our second podcast which we made yesterday. It includes some fab tunes made by us. There is Jacob’s new-age Octavio promotional track that he has already mentioned, and a rap about Powermove (distributers of the Octavio in Australia) which we worked hard on yesterday. Hope you enjoy! If you have not already subscribed, please do. For information on how to do this, see the post below. Jamie on behalf of VAF.  

Here is the first Wholesale Meat Media podcast. We did it a couple of weeks ago and it basically introduces us and doesn’t do much else. Don’t be too alarmed by the striking trumpet at the start - Jamie is on his way to becoming a master of jazz after getting a trumpet for Christmas.

Here’s the podcast

Please subscribe to our podcast as we will be releasing more episodes in the near future which will hopefully include many musical treats. If you are new to podcasts then this entails opening iTunes, and selecting “Subscribe to podcast…” under the “Advanced” menu and entering http://feeds.feedburner.com/wholesalemeatmediablog/ into the box. The purpose of all this is that iTunes will now automatically fetch our latest podcasts as we release them. It will also do us a real favour in getting some listeners to participate in our media company experiment.

Feel free to complain about our mumbling voices (mainly Jacob) and sarcastic comments (mainly Jamie). We think we are slowly improving and we hope to include some rad new tunes in each episode to keep it interesting.

Jacob and Jamie on behalf of VAF 

We have recently been looking at VAF’s website statistics page to try to see if the reporting system works. From the few views of our blogs and clicks onto the VAF page by ourselves/family/others(?) we seem to have made it to the charts! There have been seven referrals to VAF from us so far this week. This ranks us at number 46 amongst mainly forums and zune-pages. We are quite proud to be up there in competition with big names like e-bay and yellow pages. It would be pretty cool if our humble blogs managed to be one of the main ways that people found the VAF site sometime in the future. For now though, we just want to enjoy climbing the charts as much as we can. So we are thinking we might have a bit of a campaign to try to get people to click from our blogs to the VAF website and/or subscribe to our blogs in an RSS reader or iTunes. We might start making some podcasts soon to make things more interesting for iTunes users.

Jamie and Jacob on behalf of VAF