MGoPodcast Supplemental: An Interview with Brian
After our latest MGoRadio show, sponsor Nick Hopwood of Peak Wealth Management stuck around and interviewed Brian for Nick's own podcast, Finding True Wealth. Nick also allowed us to post the interview to our feed for those of you wishing to know more about the founder and editor of MGoBlog, and learn a few things about the future of the site.
Things discussed:
- Engineer things
- The founding and early history of the site
- How MGoBlog got credentialed
- A day in the life of a blogger
- MGoTraffic
- How UFR happens
- Favorite diarists (he meant Hardware Sushi)
- Drupal 8 and the new site.
- The future of MGoBlog
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December 2nd, 2018 at 5:18 PM ^
I think that a non-paywalled MGoBlog with the option of subscription for an ad-free website and other bonuses is a great idea.
December 2nd, 2018 at 5:28 PM ^
WHERE IS MY FLORIDA PEACH BOWL PREVIEW! !! ?!!! /the most sarcastic thing that I have ever typed
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:15 PM ^
Just pull out the last couple of previews for playing UF and change some words around. What's so hard about that?
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:20 PM ^
Too hard for something nobody will read just sayin
December 2nd, 2018 at 5:47 PM ^
Does Brian know how to smile?
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:49 PM ^
Maybe he’s missing a few teeth.
December 2nd, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
Mgoblog needs a cosmetic dental sponsor
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:52 PM ^
Only if it's a photobomb.
December 2nd, 2018 at 9:10 PM ^
See, now that is some fine puppeteer work by THE KNOWLEDGE there.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:58 PM ^
Rumor has it that "Brian Cook" is actually a Muppet character. He is a front for his shadowy puppet master, who secretly runs this blog - known only as THE KNOWLEDGE.
(Note that THE KNOWLEDGE got name-dropped in the interview...)
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:19 PM ^
I would pay for an ad free site with all posters ip checked to autodelete multiple accounts. Sexy bit Fridays should be a thing...premium members only though!
December 3rd, 2018 at 9:50 AM ^
If I could read quality things with out ads, I would pay for the site. On patreon, a lot of people have an hour long Q&A for subscribers. I would pay for that as well. Once it is over, that is another money generating podcast. Good product are easily monitized.
December 3rd, 2018 at 7:21 PM ^
It's pretty easy to mask your IP to avoid that stuff, it won't stop the dedicated trolls.
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:31 PM ^
Does anyone know if the audio has been fixed?
December 3rd, 2018 at 1:19 AM ^
Nope.
Like a lot of audio content these days, it really needs a lot of work.
December 3rd, 2018 at 8:48 AM ^
I made some edits (compressed and normalized) the version that's on our feed. What's the audio quality problem you're having?
December 3rd, 2018 at 9:52 AM ^
When Brian talks you can barely hear him. The levels between Brian and the other guy are way off. A part of that is that Brian trails off as his speech style but a part is definitely that his mic should be more sensitive. My opinion.
December 3rd, 2018 at 7:22 PM ^
The whole podcast was super quiet, but especially Brian
December 3rd, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^
Sounded ok for me.
December 2nd, 2018 at 6:53 PM ^
Brian looks like Morrison circa LA Woman. More whiskey!!
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:24 PM ^
Did Brian write and direct Clerks and Mallrats?
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:31 PM ^
Is there a transcript of these?
Don't tell anybody, but I sometimes read MGoBlog at work. I can fake a spreadsheet, but I can't quite fake my way through an audio broadcast.
December 3rd, 2018 at 7:23 PM ^
Do real work with headphones in so if people sneak up on you they see you actually doing work. Unless your job frowns on people to listening to music and the like.
December 2nd, 2018 at 8:48 PM ^
Lol pausing the podcast on a browser spotlight's Brian's face. Not sure if taking a selfie or doing year-end self evaluation.
December 2nd, 2018 at 10:24 PM ^
500k huh? Sounds like it'll be sometime before you give many of us the time of day.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:38 PM ^
Woot, I got a shot out. I used to go by BlueSeoul. Glad you appreciated my work from when I didn't have such regular working hours.
December 2nd, 2018 at 11:44 PM ^
Nice to see you ghosting back here again.
FWIW I rather deliberately cribbed your style (with attribution) on a couple of diary posts this past fall. The language of your old posts was a bit salty for my taste but they're still fondly remembered here. I can't tell you how delighted I'd be if you made another one.
December 3rd, 2018 at 12:35 PM ^
I love the shout outs, but cumong, man, it's "Inside the Boxscore" not "inside the numbers."*
I only wrote about 60 of those over 5 years...
*directed at Brian
December 3rd, 2018 at 7:49 AM ^
I remixed the audio; it should be better now. If you can't listen at work, try listening in the podbean app or the native podcasts app in the car
December 3rd, 2018 at 8:17 AM ^
Congrats Brian on a very successful run with this blog. It is pretty cool that a passion has turned into a successful business that continues to be sustained by that passion.
December 3rd, 2018 at 9:06 AM ^
That was really good. As a Michigan MBA and an MgoBlog member since the early days, I've always been fascinated about the business model behind a team-specific sports blog . . . and how you could even make that work as a paying enterprise.
It's quite a leap to go from guy-in-the-basement blogger to an actual small business with employees and credentials and advertisers to manage.
There is an obvious ceiling on a team-specific blog. Is there a future beyond that, or is that enough?
I did learn something new: Brian has never been in the press box.
December 3rd, 2018 at 9:11 AM ^
I realize that it was all OT and not sports related, but the stuff CRex put out about his life and travels with his wife and in-laws was probably among the best user-generated stuff ever written on this blog. Anyone who hasn't read it should really do so.
December 3rd, 2018 at 10:09 AM ^
@Brian,
Question for you that ties your CompEng degree and work history and your interest in football plays and schemes: Do you foresee a tipping point in AI where coaches put the development of game plans into the virtual hands of algorithms?
Right now, it seems that statistics help to drive some coaches' judgment calls from a scheming and play selection point of view, but is it only a matter of time before some visionary coach lets the math do the work?
December 3rd, 2018 at 10:26 AM ^
This was a great podcast, fully of amazing tips on being successful both in businesses and how following your dream, when properly motivated and uniquely capable of addressing a weakness in the marketplace, can be fruitful. The only weird thing was that section where he talked about his favorite diarists. Like, WTF? Who cares about some weirdo who sits up late Sunday night writing 3,000 words around a wrestling gif and a television show he watched in 1989?
But honestly, thanks for the shout-out, and as another comp eng graduate from UM who was extremely tired about the dumbing down around sports commentary, this site was and remains the gold standard for intelligent analysis with the right bit of humor and pathos. Sign me up for the Patreon!
December 3rd, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
Really enjoyed the look behind the curtain, so to speak. If we truly do go with a subscription model in the future, I think more looks at the inner workings would help motivate readers to contribute since we would have a better sense of the value of our contributions, if that makes sense.
December 3rd, 2018 at 3:08 PM ^
The ads on this site really don't bother me. The pop ups on other sites are horrible.
December 3rd, 2018 at 7:27 PM ^
Huh, I was a computer engineer who started in 1997 and graduated in 2001 too. I wonder if I had classes with Brian!
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