The feedburner statistics are notoriously up-and-down on a daily basis, but we did for the first time see our subscribership go briefly above 1000 after posting the new episode, so we'll count that as a milestone. Moreover, all of our past episodes up to #27 have now been downloaded over 2000 times, with #28 hitting 1000 downloads within two days (though how many actual listeners this translates to, I couldn't guess).
Nonetheless, I see on the iTunes store that we still only have 64 ratings! You there, reader person: kindly launch thy iTunes, hit iTunes store, look us up on there (clicking the iTunes icon on this page to the right there might work too), scroll down past the "listeners also subscribed to" icons (subscribe to a couple of them while you're at it!) and click one of them stars, OK. And, on a completely unrelated topic, don't you like the number 5? Isn't it really the best and holiest and coolest of all numbers, what with the fingers and toes and number of members in all the most awesome bands and all that?
Hmm, according to the UK iTunes store there are only ten ratings for the show. I just rated it and wrote a review which seems to have disappeared into the ether. Anyone else come across this disappearing iTunes review thing?
I guess I wasn’t aware that the UK had its own iTunes store that isolated its ratings from the American one. Curious.
I know they make you log in to iTunes in order to submit a rating or review, and it’s possible that if it’s your first they have a delay while they manually screen it for offensive content or something? No idea, really. Thanks for the thought!
Heh, the review is now playing hide and seek – sometimes it’s there and sometimes it isn’t. The weirdness is down to Apple.
FYI, you’ve got 8 5-star and 2 4-star ratings, and two written reviews on the UK site.
How Mr. Pink feels about tipping is how I feel about rating things online; I don’t believe in it. I mean this…this rating automatically?
It’s for the birds.
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When I go to iTunes, all episodes of tPEL are greyed out and I can’t subscribe. I’ve downloaded all episodes from your own site. Any thoughts on why iTunes is grey?
Nevermind. After months of not knowing why, I figured it out.
Yes, it is weird in iTunes that when you search for a podcast, first it shows you “top results” for that search, meaning that it in this case (since there’s only one P.E.L.) that it sort of looks like you’re on our page, but you’re not there until you click the hyperlink to “Partially Examined Life.” I think that was your problem…? (Just for the benefit of others that might be reading.)