DSF podcast?
 

Makes me wonder if DSF should do a weekly podcast itself.

That's not a bad idea actually. with one host and a different guest every week.

...that one host being Danny, right, Ronnie? :P

Danny would be the obvious choice :P

I'd better split this into it's own topic, it's worthy of that.

Well, yes, unless he didn't want to do it for some insane reason. Actually, interviewees could go on in doubles, we made a good pair on TS, RV :P

It brings back up the idea of DSF having it's own chatroom on Ventrillo, and that means stuff can be recorded too. If i ever get around to redownloading vent and figuring out how to to set one up.

Sounds awesome! I wouldn't mind being involved.

Also, why don't we have our own video podcast on a Qi/Never Mind the Buzzcocks/Have I Got News For You basis? :P

RCV would play Stephen Fry and Danny could be Alan Davies. I call dibs on Bill Bailey. Rat, ben and Ronnie can tight it out for the roles of Paul Merton, Ian Hislop and Boris Johnson.

Damn! Bill is my favorite :(

I'd have to be Paul Merton. I can do weird rambling humour.

This is an interesting idea. Honestly I don't know if it would work though... what the hell would we talk about? :P

Anything! Debates and such, then improvised conversation. Why would RV play Stephen Fry?

I'd be Ian Hislop. Not that we want to play characters, ourselves are just fine. I do love Paul Merton though. And Hislop. And Boris Johnson. And Stephen Fry <3 In fact, I once had a sig with Fry, Alan Davies, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on it.

Well for starters we will need to resurrect that Ventrillo idea and set up our own chatroom :P I am looking into that as we speak. As for topics, well anything really. How could Doctor who be improved? Latest music projects, we could have guest stars every now and again like Dom :P

It could be a fortnightly or monthly thing, so we don;t run out of ideas too soon.

Or, if that fails us. DSF radio! I've got a friend who set up her own radio channel for the MMORPG Pardus and was successful. me and Ben could do the Rock music program for that :P

Well Danny bought Nicecast and is experienced with it, so...

Ok, this is getting better all the time. Now i guess it comes down to doing a podcast every couple of weeks, which would be easier to manage and allow us to conserve ideas. Or have a radio station which is on every few days or every weekend, which would null the need for a podcast as we can simply have a program with discussion topics, and would allow us to flex creativity much more,

Ventrillo is a big no-no, because as far as I know, there is little or no support for Mac.

Rat Soufflé suggested Nicecast, seeing as I bought it and all. That would work for me. I believe Skype may also be the best solution for actual voice chat, because it's cross-platform and pretty reliable.

I think its a great idea. Proper episode reviews would be a nice idea.

Maybe a competition every week, maybe the prize being a special privilege for the forum until the next competition.

http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php

I have friends that use it on Mac's daily, but that's all I know. Not sure how stable the release is and such, but they seem to do just fine.

Either way, I think the idea of a DSF podcast or even radio station is a great one! I echo what Jamie said, some episode reviews would be awesome as well.

Little competiton idea: Best avatar of the week is featured as the artwork for the podcast for that week! ... fun

I love that 'fun' at the end of the post.

I think we should have some sort of music feature, and a feature where we criticize Murray, and also an episode review poll discussion thing.

Sounds great.

I like that idea.

I've used it myself and my experiences have not been very positive. What about server support? Can I run Ventrilo server on Mac OS X?

Noted. Support seems to be building for this idea, so I'll give it some serious consideration.