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).

I just got a live video feed up from Flex Camp Wall Street

Go watch it now

Update: The event is over, so no more video casting. I've taken down the Connect room. This was an experiment for us, and as best I can tell it was successful.

Hi listeners,

Welcome to 2008 of The Flex Show.

First I want to thank all the supporters of the podcast in 2007, especially Ryan Stewart who was with me from the beginning. It was a pleasure to do the show with Ryan, I wish him luck with all future endeavorers, and hope to catch a drink with him at the next 360.

Congratulations to Barry of Granite Studios for winning the iPod survey prize. Thanks for all the people who responded to both our surveys in 2007. Your feedback will help us shape the podcast this year. We'll talk about how int he next episode.

In 2007, we had roughly 51,000 episode downloads, most of that coming from iTunes. The website had ~95,000 hits, the average episode download is almost 1700 downloads per episode. Feedburner reports 709 subscribers. Not too shabby.

Download numbers should be relatively accurate, but for our first month, we had no download tracking in place. In the middle of the year, we lost a bunch of tracking week due to a bug when I upgraded our blogging software, accidentally overwriting some of my customizations. Near the end of the year we started tracking people who listen on-line without downloading.

Episode 7 appears to be the most popular, with Tony Hillerson's interview having the lowest download numbers (Sorry Tony, you were released around the time of the "tracking" bug. I'm sure the numbers are double what our stats show).

All numbers have been consistently going up since we started. In 2008, I hope to triple the number of subscribers and downloads, so tell your friends.

Keeping on schedule, we'd normally have an episode for you this week, but we got distracted with holidays and it took more time than expected to get a new co-host on board. The first recording of '08 is tomorrow and we'll release the first episode a week from today. What's that, you say? A new co-host? Yep, and you'll have to listen to find out who. I'm just waiting for the I's to be dotted and T's to be crossed.

Also in '08, we are going to be introducing sponsored contests. If you want to get your name in front of Flex Developers, either for recruiting purposes or otherwise, we offer a unique way to do so. Just e-mail us if you're interested in reviewing a media kit and rate card. If anyone is interested in becoming an exclusive sponsor to help bring video to The Flex Show, we'd like to talk to you too.

Note: I edited this a few times after initially posting it. I'm not sure what version hit the feeds. ;)

What would you like to see from the Flex Show in 2008? How about video? More technical content? More of the same?

Take our latest survey and let us know what you'd like to see. This is your opportunity to help us shape The Flex Show moving forward.

As a reward for letting us know what you think, we are giving away a video iPod to a random survey participant. You just have to fill out 9 easy questions to let us what is on your mind.

Of course, if you just want to ask a question, volunteer to be an interviewee, or request a specific topic you can always use our handy contact us form.

We usually try to keep this Blog focused on the podcast, but I wanted to give a shout out to the 360 Conference folk, since we love them so much. They are working to plan two conferences for next year, and are asking for your feedback on how to make them better.

John, one of the guys behind the conference talks about this a bit here. And here is a link directly to the survey. Now is the time to let your voice be heard.

Are you going to be at Max? Do you want to be on The Flex Show? We'd love to have one or two people sit in for our October news episode to tell us all about the MAX Goodness you experienced.

Ryan will be at the conference; but he is working and already knows all the secrets anyway. Jeff won't be making it this year. That is why we need you.

Let us know if you want to partake.

Sorry folks. There is not going to be a Flex Show released today. We've done a lot of recording at 360Flex Seattle, but have been having so much fun there hasn't been time to edit them into episodes.

We should release them as episodes over the course of the next two or three weeks.

I just want to remind everyone that you have one more day to get your entries into win a ticket to the 360Flex conference.

Drop us a line and tell us about your favorite Flex Class. It shouldn't take just a few minutes, and you get a chance to hobnob with the best Flexers in the industry for free.

We'll be recording the next episode (and giving away the ticket) tomorrow, around 5 Eastern Time.