A company could be taking your podcast, ripping the ads out, rehosting it somewhere else... and then charging people to listen.
The company says this is "similar in spirit to ad-blocking in the web browser space". What do you think?
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My radio newsletter this week covers an awful lot of closures of radio stations. Goodness. But, some good news, too.
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Very, very old #HIGNIFY from 1992 with Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. Fascinating how the show has changed since - this is very close to the knuckle with lots of very cutting allegations in it. Peter Cook was quite excellent. Not sure I miss Angus Deayton’s hosting style.
youtu.be/8_ieICHDNXA
Live now news:
Al Jazeera reporting explosions in Caracas, Venezuela. livenow.news#aljazeera
#venezuela
Why is my hot water cylinder making this noise?
And please can it stop?
Anyone know what’s going on?
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PSA for Australia (especially QLD, NT, SA, WA):
You can watch the ABC’s NSW feed in iview, and go to bed up to two hours early tonight.
#australia #newyear
Vaguely fun thing I discovered -
www.youtube.com/results?sear...
This search query to YouTube is a scoped search to *just* search for podcasts. The "sp=EgIIBxgA" bit is the filter you want. If a creator hasn't marked their content as a podcast, it won't appear in this search.
An email announcing National Motivation & Inspiration Day on Jan 2.
Best get around to reading my email today but not sure I can be bothered
Fun to flick through the 2006 book "Tricks of the Podcasting Masters" by @podcast411.bsky.social and @mightymur.bsky.social . Peppered with fun humour and the whole book remains surprisingly undated. (The screenshots of the websites - which are all over the book - certainly are though!)
Impressively the apostrophes are different apostrophes as well.
Two bad apostrophes
Double apostrophe abuse in the new Betty’s Burgers menu. You’d have thought with a name like that, they’d know.
I just think it’s so much cooler and more interesting to try to be the best audio show rather than the shittiest television show
Curious to spot that the BBC’s own “Britbox” streaming service here in Australia doesn’t offer BBC News channel. I mean, you’d have thought… no.
It’s free on the BBC website (in Australia) here. But not on the BBC’s own Britbox.
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If you’re going to talk about how podcasts became video products you need to at least gesture toward both network TV and ESPN’s mid-day programming. The video podcast isn’t new, it’s just a talk show with worse guests and production values.
Best if it’s the podcast as a whole. Whatever you have written in the description. It gets special treatment in Apple and others.
You have no trailer. Bah!
I mean... newpodcasts.net is free, and if you have a trailer in your podcast, it'll almost guarantee about 500 plays for you...
Seemingly some pretty great MeshCore activity in Riga, Latvia (where I am in March). Should be interesting to see how far it would go.
(This map is based on "observers", i.e. people on the ground feeding it data; I don't think it's complete.)
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Meshtastic is fun, but Meshcore is where it’s really at. Up to 64 hops; much better use of the limited airtime available. I bet you could cover your whole country with it relatively easily.
It’s no Zetta, that’s for certain
Tried the new Spotify mixing tool.
It has real promise, but isn't quite ready for primetime yet. One little tweak is all it needs. One little tweak.
A full review over here - with audio! And video!
james.cridland.net/blog/2025/sp...
I *am* a left-leaning wokerati! :)
um… yeah… ?
I think the days of “big social” are gone. BlueSky says you’re left-leaning wokerati; X says you’re a MAGA enthusiast; Mastodon says you’re a geek who uses Linux. There isn’t a social platform that’s “for everyone” any more, and much too much bother to ignore it all.
Or as you know him, “Not Specified”. A step up from “Various Presenters”.
@spencerhowson.bsky.social would be grateful for the additional audience
You can listen to both online using the app, as about 20% of Australians use radio; channel 25 on your TV, DAB+ Digital Radio (as more than 20% of Aussies in cap cities do), or - for the moment - AM radio if you can find one.
Fans of a British accent and talking about AM transmission in too much detail might like to tune into @spencerhowson.bsky.social on ABC Radio Brisbane at 7.40am this morning (in half an hour), or ABC Radio Perth and WA at 6.15am this morning (in an hour).
The future isn’t AM radio in cities. My latest radio newsletter - also includes “you won’t believe what ARN have done this time”
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It’s a simulcast currently. I can’t see ARN doing two sets of breakfast shows. But a non-stop Kiis K&J station on DAB+ in addition is something that a clever radio group would have done five years ago. ARN’s track record thus far wouldn’t suggest that’s a thing they’ve ever thought of.