As many of you know, The Flex Show has bee running a pledge drive over the past few months. The pledge drive gives our listeners the chance to control aspects of the show in 2010. Pledge amounts start at $5 and go up from there. The cash influx helps inspire us to find the time to keep the show going in 2010.

We appreciate all the listeners who have supported us thus far. If you have been holding off, now is the time to pledge. The pledge drive will shut down at the end of January. You only have one week left to show your love.

If you like the podcast, find value in what we do, and want to do your part to see us continue, then check out our sponsorship options and choose one that works for you.

We appreciate the continued support and look forward to carrying on in 2010.

Today I will be presenting at an Adobe Tech Wednesday entitled "Behind the Scenes of The Flex Show - Trials and Tribulations of Producing a Podcast." John should be joining me for a bit of it.

If you're interested in learning more about how we create the audio podcasts, then this is going to be a great way for you to do it.

Join us here at 10:00am PT (Los Angeles) / 1:00pm ET (New York).

Calculate that into your own time zone using the Time and Date world clock converter.

Note, presentation is over, here is the recording

Hi everyone,

This is the last day to enter our ticket giveaway contest to win a ticket to 360|Flex in Indianapolis.

Just head over to the conference site and let us know what Doug McCune will be talking about. We'll be accepting entries until I go to bed tonight and will award the prize in the morning, so get in your answer now.

Thank you to 360|Flex for sponsoring a few episodes and I hope to see you all @ the conference.

Every Friday in February at 1 pm EST, I'll be doing a live Q&A session. This is a bit of an experiments, so I hope you'll join me to see how it goes.

This Friday, I'll start with a short demo of the Flextras DataSorter, but then I'll open it up for Q&A. And you can ask anything you want, even if it is not about Flextras.

You can join the connect room at http://experts.na3.acrobat.com/flextras/.

If you want to find out when 1pm EST is in your time zone, go here.

Sorry folks, due to a production delay we will not be releasing an episode of our Adobe sponsored screencast, Fifteen Minutes With Flex, today. We should be back on track in two weeks and flow smoothly through the end of the year, though.

Thanks all for watching; sorry about that.

By the time you read this, I'll be off flying to 360Flex in San Jose. I'll be in the area for a full week. I hear that John might make an appearance too.

In the past, in Seattle and Atlanta, I've had informal get together before or after the conference. Usually these are small groups, but they've been fun.

I'm going to attempt another informal get together on the Wednesday after the conference. Anyone want to go see Star Wars Clone Wars with us? Drop me a line and I'll put you on the list.

I'll try to finalize plans sometime before Wednesday.

Just a quick reminder. We'll be shutting down our yearly demographic survey at end of day today. So, you only have 12 hours [or so] to get in your chance to win A Nintendo Wii bundle with all the fixings. We will also be giving away five $50 iTunes gift certificates for a few lucky second chance winners.

That is 6 chances to Win from us at The Flex Show, just by taking ten minutes to tell us a few things about yourself. The Demographic information is the thing that helps us bring in sponsors, such as EffectiveUI and Adobe.

Sponsorships help us continue to find the time to keep the show going as it is. We're very happy with the results of this years survey so far, but there is always room for a few more opinions. Get yours in now!

Under normal schedule circumstances we'd have an episode released this morning. Unfortunately, there was a slight production problem and we've become delayed. It was my fault really.

We're working to correct the problem, and should get the episode out soon. This is the first time we've been off schedule since last August and I'm going to obsess about it all day.

In the meantime, we are still running our Demographic Survey. I've shaken the budget tree a bit, and we've decided to offer five $50 iTune gift certificates in addition to the Wii Bundle. So, instead of just one big prize, we now have 6 prizes. Who can complain about that? Just tell us a little about yourself for a chance to win.

It is June again, so The Flex Show is doing our yearly demographic survey. Just tell us a little about yourself and we'll enter you to win a Nintendo Wii bundle including:

• Nintendo Wii Game system
• Guitar Hero 3 Bundle, with the wireless Wii Guitar
• Mario Kart Wii
• Extra Wiimote controller
• Extra Nunchuk Controller
• Extra Wii Wheel for Mario Kart

The survey can be completely anonymous if you wish, however if you don't provide an e-mail address we'll have no way to deliver the prize to you. Our goal is to get 1,000 people to respond; can you help us? Take the survey yourself and tell your friends.

We'll aggregate this data and use it to help reel in sponsors, which will help keep the show moving forward. (It's a lot of work behind the scenes to keep this thing moving).