Hey All! Just got a chance to hop online and post a quick message to my blog subscribers and readers.

I’m sure you read the post from yesterday, It is painful to me, even though I do not feel it physically.  Although, that is an issue right now in my life, it is part of life! By the Way, She is getting better. Thanks for all of your Thoughts and Praires! I will share every one of them with her.

Last week I upgraded to 2.6 of Wordpress and never got around to letting all of you know. I’ll post a review about it later. So far, I love the Word Count.

Thanks for reading and Thanks for your thoughts and praires.

Josh Budde of josh.buddes.net

I hope everyone has had a great month of July. I haven’t posted lately and this is due to me being so busy with my Job, podcasts and many other things.

I am here to really, just let you all know that I will not be online for a minimum of 24 hours and an unknown maximum, not likely more than 2 weeks, but you never know. Why? Well, as I look around at 3pm I saw that my Mom’s van had pulled into the driveway, but it wasn’t my Mom driving. It was my Dad. As they walked towards the house I noticed that my mom had a Hospital tag around her wrist and a bandage on the other hand. I asked whats wrong and why are you home so early? And then I found out that they were at the hospital since 8:00 this morning.

I’d like to specifically thank all of the thoughts and praires from all of my online friends! It means a lot to me and my family.

With that said, this means that I will not be working for the next week or So. Okay. This also means that the Team in Pittsburgh will be keeping Support running while I am not available. Thanks to Dave and the rest at HQ, you guys are making it so that users can keep on getting support while I am away. THANKS! Please do not call my Phone Line for TalkShoe Support for the next week or so. Urgent issues should be reported directly to Technical Support.

Thank you for your thoughts, praires and support throughout this! I’ll be back online soon enough and I do use Ping.Fm and Mobile IM, so I can still keep you updated while I am away from the Computer.

This does mean that if there is an episode of a podcast scheduled, it is canceled until the next episode would be. More details to come later this week… If you need to contact me, please use the Contact Form.

Josh Budde of josh.buddes.net

Wow! I am really getting into this podcasting thing.. It seems like it was yesterday when I was hosting the first ever episode of TechCast. Well, and now – I host several different podcasts. Biggest one being Wetpaint Nation and this post is really about Wetpaint Nation and its Future, plus what is happening in the coming months with my network of Podcasts.

Wetpaint Nation

Wetpaint Nation actually started back in December of 2007 and then went on Hiatus until March 2008 when we decided to bring the actual Wetpaint Team on and help me out with certain things.. and look at it now. It is my biggest podcast with nearly 100 downloads each week compared to December or January that is great!

On the 5th episode of formerly ‘Wetpaint Talk’ it became Wetpaint Nation stats just started going up and up, not long after that I had gotten some of the Wetpaint Team to help me out with content and SEO help and we went even farther, along with some help from Rob White of the NMP Network – Wetpaint Nation is doing very well. That brings us to the current Audio Standings.

Along with Audio, I now have a screencast for Wetpaint Nation. The first one launched to the Wiki this afternoon. That is where we are currently for that. The future for this area of Wetpaint Nation is to just go further. Along with Screencasts, you’ll eventually see a Video version of the Podcast and then there is three different versions of Wetpaint Nation.

Other Podcasts (Coming Months)

As you probably know, I am launching 3 new podcasts in the next three months. This month, actually tomorrow is ‘The Budde Cast,’ a podcast dedicated to what is going on in my life; sort of like an audio blog, next is ‘Daily RSS Podcast,’ a podcast where I randomly choose 3-6 news articles from RSS feeds and I talk about them with some callers and see what their take on the subject is and in September I’ll be starting another podcast called, ‘Weekly SVU Podcast,’ which is a podcast based on the Television show, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Just wanted to let you all know that I will not be around for the next few days – I leave tomorrow afternoon to go camping. If you need to contact me urgently, give me a call on my GrandCentral number, (585.682.2594) and I’ll get back to you.

I’ll be getting back into town either Sunday afternoon or Monday morning. Not sure which one – I’ll be using Utterz and Ping.Fm to keep you all updated!

Have a great weekend!

Josh