You ever have one of those weeks? Sigh…

This week has been a BEAR for me in terms of the various sites. 

After debuting Daily Call two weeks ago, we discovered that it was playing havoc with the loadtimes and with the server load, so I switched it to a viral player, and that seems to be working ok. It’s loading every morning automatically from Podshow about 10:30 ET, which is fine with me. At least ONE thing is working correctly now…

Then I discovered that the Indie Film Spotlight URL – http://indiefilmspotlight.com – wasn’t working correctly -it worked fine when I first loaded the forwarded domain into my GoDaddy account, but then inexplicably after about three days it went back to showing the coming soon page on GoDaddy. So i’ve been going back and forth with the GoDaddy techies, trying to figure out what’s wrong. Turns out, I forgot to set the nameservers to the right ones on their site. They say it could take 48 hours to propagate to all the major internet services, so hopefully it will begin working correctly again by Sunday morning. If not….ARRGH!

Then visitors told me that PNR’s site was hanging up for about 90 seconds before loading the right sidebar. This started about a week ago, but I thought it had been the Daily Call stuff. Turns out it wasn’t – it was the two RSS Calendar listings I had parked on the right sidebar – one with the SC Schedule and the other with upcoming film festivals. So i’ve had to remove them from the site – which has had the effect of fixing the loadtimes, which are back to normal. This is absolutely heartbreaking to me, as the Film Festival calendar is filled with over 100 festivals coming up in the next year, and was also going to be a part of IFS as well. I’m deeply disappointed that this turn of events has taken place, because i’ve used RSSC for almost 10 years of web calendar lists without a problem. I wrote to them Thursday trying to track down the problem, but so far, I’ve yet to receive a reply…in the meantime, does anyone else know of a free Rss based calendar system I could use? I use Calendar Hub for the film calendar, but it doesn’t have the slick autoload 30 day calendar either…I really want my RSS Calendar working right again…

THEN…I get an e-mail from Commission Junction saying that I am not making enough sales, and that my account is going to be deactivated if I don’t start generating some clicks and orders. Well, HELLS BELLS ANYWAY!  Rather than spend money to keep it going, we made the concious, difficult decision to sever our ties with CJ because no one seems to be interested in using our Fandango to order tickets, so it’s no longer a part of our site. I had hoped that with the jump in hits we’ve been getting over the past three months, it would start to turn a small profit, enough to cover our expenses at least. But it hasn’t.  Hopefully, listener donations will start to increase little by little now that our listenership is growing by leaps and bounds and we can start to build a fund for financial help with covering festivals and such as time goes on. But the shows will have to remain sponsor supported for now.

There’s more, but i’ve rambled on enough for now…heh heh heh… tune in this weekend for the third and final part of our Decidedly Disney miniseries as we discuss Disney’s Live Action films!