I have just set up a Pligg powered voting site for the podcast called Ante Up! The system works exactly like you are probably used to from digg.com: Once you have signed up, you can submit links to stories and vote on other people’s submissions. Dan and I will also submit our stories for the podcast and each week we’ll try and pick a few stories from the highest ranked ones to include into the show.

Even if you do not submit anything, I would appreciate it very much if you’d sign up to vote on the stories other people submit. If we can get enough active users together, we can hopefully put some more variety into the shows and it will be a bit easier for Dan and me to come up with interesting stuff every week. I hope this will make it easier for you, the listener, to tell us what you want us to talk about. Please have a go and tell us via the feedback form if you like this system or if you have an idea how we could improve it. I am really looking forward to seeing a lot of interesting story submissions from you!

As you may have noticed, I recently added a “digg this” button to the sidebar, which means you now can vote for our little podcast on digg.com by clicking on that. If you haven’t already done so, I would be much obliged if you supported us and by doing so spread the word about the show a bit. I basically have to beg here, since Dan strictly refuses to use digg.com, even if it is to help us out…

In other news, this site is now also available under the .net, .org & .de variations of the domain name, enabling me to pull a Dvorak and plug it as “linuxoutlaws-dot-org-slash-blog” when I feel like it. Well, that’s about as much features as I can come up with today — stay tuned for the release of episode 4 later this week, though.

I have just finished editing our first introductory episode and it’ll hit the feeds as soon as possible. We are definitely looking at a release date some time this week. If you come across any stories you’d like us to cover on the podcast while you’re waiting, please tag them with for:linuxoutlaws on del.icio.us and we’ll get them. We definitely appreciate any story ideas you send us since we are hoping for an active dialogue with our fellow Linux users. Once the podcast has started for good, you can also check out all the stories we talked about at del.icio.us/linuxoutlaws.