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The End Of Shot Of Jaq

by | Tue 13 Jul 2010

Today we published our final [Shot Of Jaq](https://www.shotofjaq.org/). You can listen to it [here](https://shotofjaq.org/2010/07/the-end/).

*Shot Of Jaq* was our experiment into whether podcasting could be turned on it’s head a little and instead of being a long show (such as what we did with [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org/), could be a short, sharp burst of content to *start* the discussion. We did this with *Shot Of Jaq* for nine months, put out around 70 shows on a twice-weekly basis, and had over 3000 comments as part of the discussions.

Although *Shot Of Jaq* had a fairly short life-span, I am proud of what we achieved with it. I feel like the format worked, and our final show which we released today talks about some of the lessons learned in a hope that others will continue the *shotcasting* format.

As for why we are stopping *Shot Of Jaq*? Well, [Aq](https://www.kryogenix.org) and are simply too busy with other things (such as [Severed Fifth](https://www.severedfifth.com/) on my part) and we both have hectic work lives. We didn’t want the quality of the show to suffer, so we figured now was a good time to call it a day.

Thanks to everyone who was so supportive of the show!

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