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📝New blog post: My thoughts on Spotify as a vampire, sucking all the money out of podcasting.

My new podcast is called “Who the heck is actually using Dropbox for signing documents” where I scour the globe trying to find anyone who wants Dropbox for anything besides syncing files.

I’m restarting my newsletter again (again x 3), this time as a “Thoughts I Would’ve Tweeted if Elon Hadn’t Barfed on Twitter” weekly summary of things I find on the internet, podcasts I’ve enjoyed, and 280 character thoughts I would’ve tweeted. Sign up here 💌

I love that Buttondown lets you set a canonical URL for each newsletter you send out, that way you can have a blog post at your website with the same (or similar) content that gets the traffic when subscribers click for a web version.

screenshot showing Buttondown’s settings for an email newsletter with the option to set a canonical URL: If you're publishing a newsletter that mirrors another publication or blog that you own, you can add a 'canonical URL' here. This will help search engines understand that your newsletter is a mirror of your other publication, and drive traffic from the emails to your other publication.

I’m listening to music (random #U2 if you must know or haven’t guessed already) but I have to turn it off to edit podcasts.

Sadly I still haven’t mastered listening to something in one ear, and something entirely different in the other ear. 😵‍💫

Tempted to pick up the Elgato Wave XLR that’s on sale at Amazon for an updated USB-C preamp for my Heil PR40 mic, but the macOS support seems to be iffy in reviews. Anyone else in #podcast land have one on a Mac?

Posting on Micro.blog about editing a podcast interviewing the creator of Micro.blog has to win some sort of small “m” meta prize, right?

I (finally) published a new video on my YouTube showing how easy it is to record, edit, and publish a podcast episode from Descript to Transistor to podcast apps - with a transcription included for good measure.

Why your podcast needs a website #203: When I’m linking to your podcast from another podcast’s show notes, I’m not putting Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Pocket Casts, Podtail, Podchaser, Libsyn, RSS, BlueBorfy, PodTats, CastsThatArePods, etc. links.

I’m putting one so listeners can decide.

I shouldn’t upgrade to macOS Sonoma today because I’m in the middle of editing a podcast. But then I thought: the guest on the podcast works at Apple. I’m using Apple software to edit on Apple hardware. Is this not the perfect synergy to tempt fate??

(Spoiler: I didn’t upgrade to macOS Sonoma.)

I’m a fan of competition, but something about Descript / Squadcast using my filenames or file download source metadata to target a competitor (Riverside.fm)’s users doesn’t smell right for some reason. Just me?

Email from Descript that reads: The All-in-One Solution&10;We notice you've been using Riverside and Descript for recording and editing your podcast or video (or both). That’s great, but we have some news: Descript has remote recording now—so you can record, edit, collaborate, and publish your content, all in one tool. &10;&10;If you've found Riverside, and its Edit in Descript feature, useful, we're confident you can streamline your workflow and save a ton of time—and money—by recording and editing in Descript.

I always wondered why Apple didn’t let you listen to the Music interviews more easily—glad to see they’ve added them to the Podcasts app.

Finally back to time for a stupid walk for the old 🧠

U2y podcast episode on Pop

Recording a podcast locally and didn’t notice I ran out of space on my memory card. Pull it out and realize I’ve been relying on a 2GB memory card when a 128GB version is $18 (tax in). 🤦‍♂️

Guess we’ll just record that part again.

Almost time to watch hockey again. Toxic Actions of Toxic Coach of Toxic Sport in Toxic League exposed by Toxic Host of Toxic Podcast on Toxic Website.

I realized why Friday seemed to go so smoothly and it’s because I forgot about editing a podcast episode that’s due first thing Monday morning. Luckily something triggered my brain to think about it.

Costco queso dip to the rescue for some late night editing. 😋

Any podcast nerds know if a USB-C enabled iOS device (iPad? iPhone 15?) can just take a USB-C mic plugged in directly as a recording device? Because that would make your phone a pretty slick mobile recorder paired with something like a Shure MV7.

I don’t know what they are because I only hear the words “web components” on podcasts I edit, but the newly launched Luro “…is a no-code solution to track component usage, adoption, and success across your entire product.”

Plus it looks great. 💯