January 2018 DTNS Update (Patreon)

THIS is the DTNS Monthly Update available to all backers. Each month I let you know what's going on at DTNS and highlight a few awesome patrons in the audience. 

TOM'S NOTE

CES is dominating our discussions as we head into 2018. For the first time, DTNS will stream from the CES show floor. Last year, I did the show in Las Vegas from a hotel room, but this year we want to see if we get a boost from having the show all around us.

A little side note on this. My belief is that you can cover CES more effectively if you're not actually there. At least for a show like DTNS you can. The short version of my explanation is that most of our show prep is looking at what's news and then deciding what to discuss. We then put it in context, help you understand it and send you to the folks doing the original reporting if you want to learn more. You don't need to be at a show to do that.

So this will be a test to see if there are any other benefits to being at the show. One will be guests. Getting people to stream from CES is often troublesome because of bandwidth. Our guests this year (like last year) will all be in person. Plus Sarah, Roger and I will all be there. This costs a bit of course but it has the added benefit of not having to bring anyone in on the stream. All we have to worry about is recording the show first, then streaming it out live second. That makes some things easier IF we have good bandwidth.

We're also going to try doing some Facebook Live streams. We're using Facebook Live because it's easy to do from a phone and has nice chat integration and a lot of the audience is there. If this works and we do it again we may or may not pick another platform. But the idea is to stream during the evening press events (CES Unveiled, Digital Experience and Show Stoppers) to give you the more informal behind the scenes feel of the show.

So yeah CES is dominating our thoughts. BUT we also have more plans for the rest of the month including taking into account all the great feedback we got from the survey! Turns out 92 percent of you like the bonus Labs content being in the main feed. So that will be staying. 70 percent of you don't watch live which is actually a little lower than it used to be. I've been experimenting with simulcasting the stream on Twitch (at http://twitch.tv/acedtect) so we can have more options for you. Keep in mind this will probably not happen during CES, but I'll be back to playing with it once we return. 

And if you didn't catch us discussing it elsewhere, Sarah will have her own DTNS Labs effort starting by the end of the month focusing on your feedback! So keep an eye out for that. 

As DTNS begins its FIFTH year I cannot express how much I appreciate each and every one of you for believing in this show and supporting it so much. Here's to an even better 2018!

PATRON TOTALS FOR DECEMBER

Yeah our goal of getting at least one more patron than the month before took a hit with Patreon's brief decision to change fees, then changing it back. We're down 130 patrons over last month. Soooooo- let's just recalibrate and shoot for at least one more patron NEXT month!

UPCOMING GUESTS/EVENTS

Side Note, Patrick Beja and his wife are expecting a baby any day now, so you may not see Patrick for a few weeks> Congrats Patrick!!

1/7 - Facebook Live Stream from CES Unveiled

1/8 - Live from CES with Paul Spain

    - Facebook Live Stream from Digital Experience

1/9 - Live from CES with Patrick Norton and Allison Sheridan

    - Facebook Live Stream from Show Stoppers

    - Las Vegas Meetup at 8 PM at Level Up Arcade & Bar - MGM Grand

1/10 - Live from CES with Bill Detwiler and Shannon Morse

1/12 - Erin Carson

1/16 - Lamarr Wilson

1/19 - Rob DeMillo

1/26 - Shannon Morse

PATRON SHOUTOUTS

WHEEL OF THANKS 

The wheel spins and we say thanks to Eric Tsay, Chad Desposito, Phillip Barnett and everyone who continues to support the show!

The January 23rd Club

There are a number of folks who have been with us since we launched the Patreon on January 23rd, 2014. Each month we'll recognize a couple of them. This month HUGE thanks to:

Aaron

DrunkKidsGaming (Is that you Curley?)

Thomas Neill

You and everyone who sticks with us are amazing.

THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARIES!

These are all the people who are celebrating an anniversary of three years with us as of this month! Thanks for sticking with us. 

Richard Bowersox

Dan Hamman

Kenneth Hill

Jeff Enoch

Matthew Jeffers

Ken from Chicago

Wesley Howard

Jason Thiel

Ben Free

Brant Padak

Mike Lipson

Walter Michel

Colin Theys

Rev_Dave

Mark Martinez

Michael Hodgins

Kevin Hartle

Peter Jolly

John Radko

Curtis Pogue

This Week in Startups

Dan

Andrew Bartek

Sean Wright

Mark Carter

Christiaan keet

Charles Schultz

Chris Pitirri

Lawrence Durham

Cory Hartung

Brandon Kurtz

Chris Mudd

Matthew Litwin

Pawel

Ray Curry

Mark Eister

Kyle in Korea

Cesar Vazquez

Kevin Williams

Alex Feigin

Travis Denardo

Anitra Walker

pm

Brent Reed

Stephen Rice

Jarno Elovirta

Chris Holbrow

Chris

Paul Burford

Jason Stopczynski

Ian Weatherall

Carl von Köhler

Jonathan Anglin

Mike Bear

Johnie Wardlaw

Mike Woods

david bibicoff

Jonal Coleman

John Atwood

Michele Aulik

Tracy Moon

The Doubleclicks

James

John Arnold

Cory Cranfill

Tony Richards

Nick Ligori

Butch Vail

Michael

Kevyn Silverman

Marc-Olivier Pittner

Nelson Rivera

Robert Young

Britt Thomas

Darren Wessely

Jabre(Jabber)

Ron Richards

Don Potito

Jeff Snyder

Mike Cortez

Aaron Sager

William Reveal

Jesse Boback

Glenn Pogue

Ranec

Shannon Morse

mjc

Frank Rivera

Marcus Hall

Chris Mc

Darren Connors

Brent Hathaway

Brian Clark

Patrick Plante

Anne Marie Velosa

Andrew Lee

Gerrard Bailey

Russell

Jacob Gottdenger

James Ferrier

Jason

Harrison Ward

Ryan Payne

Matthew Allen

Roy O'Sullivan

Sam Johnson

Mike Larson

Mike Freeman

John Alexander

Brian Wilson

Kevin Schmutzler

Stephen West

MK

Deborah Slee

Aaron Burghardt 

Dave Hansen

Madhu Ganesh

Technosquid

Jacob McNeel

Chris Stein

erich pfeiffer

Rick Hood

seerpea

Norman Gross

Sudaraka Wijesinghe

Kevin Mak

Magnus Rønning

Alex Vancina

Jon Rasmussen

Colin Cross

Ron Harris

Ron Reimann

Peter Dalling

Tara Berry

Justin Hawkwood

Jonathan Lockhart

ORLYRADIO

Ben Johnson

Jason Niemczyk

Darren Wiebe

Jim Gust

Lily McGrattan

Bradley Kibota

Dean Barrois 

Chris Arnold

Philip D

Steven Schmidt

Bob Cowles

Stephen Kaspersen

Geoffrey

John Hopson

Tom Stewart

Mike Phillips

M.Shropshire

Lazy Man Labs

Paul Foote

James S Roloff

Anthony Robohn

Nicolas

Chris Strong

Olaf Thiele

Bill Russell

Todd Easter

Kevin Stanfield

Aron Wilson

Jonathan Stone

Corey Wallis

Michael Newman

Thomas Beveridge

Tom Hamlyn

Frank Moris

GrifiN Kay

David Vogel

James L McDowell

Damien Dunn

Riley Briggs

Sloan Ozanne

peter sanderson

Jim Callinan

William Krause

Erwin Stuhr

Arlan Vennefron