The Sidepodbookgroup - Discuss your favourite motorsport reads

A community effort to read more Formula One material

18/07/2011 by Christine

Sidepodcast has become a very literary place recently, with the introduction of my own books, plus great works from Stuart Codling and Joe Saward all being discussed in the confines of the comments. I spent the past weekend browsing Shelfari - an Amazon-owned social network for book lovers - and now I can present to you the Sidepodcast Book Group.

F1Minute app now available on the iPad

Releasing a bigger, brighter version of the mobile application

12/07/2011 by Mr. C

Today we are pleased to welcome into the world, F1Minute for the iPad. Coming just over a month after the release of F1Minute for the iPhone, this update brings you Formula 1 news in tablet form too.

Wiki highlights - Finding your way around

A guide to Sidepodcast, as well as a bit of fun any day of the week

04/05/2011 by Christine

This month has been relatively quiet on the Formula One front, thanks to an early three-week break in the 2011 calendar. Things are gathering steam for this weekend's race in Turkey, but whilst the racing has stopped, we've been busy on the site. Sidepodcast is always evolving, and sometimes it can be hard to keep up with what is what. Thankfully, Giggles has come to the rescue

Wiki highlights - Words and music

The Sidepodcast dictionary and Formula One tunes

11/04/2011 by Christine

Another month has flown by and it's been a busy one. The 2011 season has begun in earnest, and the Sidepodcast site is busier ever. In the background, the wiki waits, supporting us with pages that help us keep organised, and remember the marvellous things we've come up with in the comments.

Quit playing games with my heart

Keeping track of the conversation on Sidepodcast

08/03/2011 by Mr. C

It is said that the beating heart of Sidepodcast is best represented by the comments, discussion, conversation, feedback and interaction the F1 community brings to the site. By a combination of luck, good fortune and the particular alignment of several planets on any given day, the chatter and gossip on this very site represents some of the best the online Formula 1 world has to give (in my humble and totally unbiased professional opinion). Therefore today we're launching the first in a long line of conversation enhancements for 2011, Sidepodcast Heartbeat.

Wiki highlights - Question everything

Submitting subjects for Joe and F1 shopping

07/03/2011 by Christine

This month has been pretty quiet on the Sidepodcast wiki front, but it's always there in the background with some excellent stuff to peruse. There are a couple of changes that I'll highlight before we move on to an exciting page from the archive.

Wiki highlights - A happy list and sports at speed

How to improve your mood and get sporting action to move faster

01/02/2011 by Christine

Towards the end of each month, I intend to dig out the great pages that quite often get forgotten about over on the wiki. This month has seen quite a bit of activity on the fabulous Sidepodcast Wiki, so I thought it might be worth plugging the new pages that have been created over there as well. We started the month with a desire to keep things positive, and one of the best ways of doing that is to create a wiki list.

Keeping track - The Sidepodcast F1 calendar has grown

Stay up to date with which events are happening on what days

27/12/2010 by Christine

For the last year or so, we've been keeping the Sidepodcast Calendar up to date with the F1 schedule, driver and commenter birthdays, and a few select special events such as Le Mans, and the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Now, for 2011, the calendar has grown a little bit more, with some changes to make it easier to use.

Wiki, wiki, wild, wild west

Celebrating the Sidepodwiki now that it has found a home

26/12/2010 by Christine

Whilst many people spent yesterday consuming turkey and opening presents, I was hiding away from all the festivities and indulging in something I like much better - sorting out the Sidepodcast wiki. When we first opened up the wiki way back when, I didn't think we would be leaving a trail of abandoned sites in our wake. However, after moving away from Wetpaint, and the tale of woe that was Wikia, we have finally found our home.

The Sidepodwiki - onwards and upwards

Moving the wiki from pillar to post ends now

23/11/2010 by Christine

A while ago, we moved the Wiki from it's original home to Wikia. The move was instigated by the fact that the hosted wiki software we were using was buggy, unstable, and prone to virus warnings on people's computers. A good reason to move, I'm sure you'll agree. We selected Wikia, because it was incredibly popular, it looked like a real wiki, and you didn't need to learn an entire new language to use it.

Introducing F1 analysis in real time

The Factbyte Factbox gives live statistics as races unfold

25/09/2010 by Mr. C

While post race F1 charts and graphs are common place around the web, I'm not sure anyone has ever tried to produce real time analysis of track sessions whilst those sessions were still in progress. Today Sidepodcast has changed all that, by introducing what may well be F1's first ever platform for live statistics.

Rebooting live comments and introducing Sidepodcast dashboard

The community conversation continues to evolve

17/09/2010 by Mr. C

It feels like only yesterday that we launched new commenting functionality on the site, and now we're doing it all over again. Today sees the end of the road for our illustrious (and long standing) "Live Commenting... Live Thing" which has been superseded by the rather awesome Sidepodcast Dashboard.

Introducing the Factbyte Factbox

A brand new project in covering F1 live with lap by lap updates

09/03/2010 by Mr. C

Sidepodcast is today turning its F1 coverage up to eleven, with the release of the all new Factbyte Factbox. The interactive web panel enables us to provide real-time updates on any live event, be it an F1 session, another motorsport event or live streaming podcast.

Enhancing F1 conversation in 2010

Introducing live comments across the Sidepodcast site

28/02/2010 by Mr. C

Just prior to the start of the new year, we discussed site performance improvements and plans for the future. Specifically those related to the start of the 2010 F1 season. Today, with less than 12 days to go before action gets underway, we're adding significant enhancements to commenting functionality.

Sunday afternoon Giggles

Keep up with the amazing DJ skills of Alex on a weekend

07/02/2010 by Christine

Since Christmas, we have stepped back from live streaming the podcast recordings on a Sunday night. Most of the issues are down to server and technical bits and pieces, but it also takes the pressure off us on a weekend. We want to make the live streaming as good as it can be, and putting a halt to proceedings is the easiest way to evaluate what we're doing.

My brand spanking new 2010 F1 calendar

Keeping track of all the Formula One events in the year

09/01/2010 by Christine

As time passes, there is more and more in F1 that we need to try and keep track of. Bernie keeps on adding to the race calendar, there are more teams ready to launch and new drivers keep popping up with birthdays. The only thing there is less of is testing, but we still need to follow that as well. To aid us in the pursuit of remembering stuff, we have created an über-calendar.

Where art thou?

An update on the Sidepodcast Listener Map

04/01/2010 by Mr. C

Whilst trawling through last year's posts for the end of year roundup, we came across a blog entry promoting the Sidepodcast Listener Map. Although we haven't mentioned it in a very long time, it hasn't stopped people from adding themselves via the wiki during the year.

We're not counting the days

A selection of Sidepodcast projects for the winter off-season

12/11/2009 by Christine

I don't think we'll ever win the battle of convincing everyone the off season is brilliant, but instead, we can make it the best we possibly can. Last year, we had a quick run through of what we were planning to do, and then we reviewed what we had managed to achieve before the season began. This year we're going to do something similar.

We made it through the wilderness

A collection of the best photographs from 2009

31/10/2009 by Christine

Our F1 Big Picture venture began, like all good stories, right at the very beginning... of the 2009 season. January this year to be precise.

Introducing Sidepodfilmclub

A new concept in communal movie consumption

02/09/2009 by Christine

If you have been following my personal blog, you'll know I've been live commenting my way through films in a series I like to call Film Watch. The idea is simply to watch the film, make notes as you go and publish them later. It is a lot of fun to do, but in traditional Sidepodfashion, we want to take this to the next level.