Apple’s most popular podcasts of 2024 in the U.S. feels like a pretty good sampling of what I assumed Americans listen to, leaning towards true crime, conspiracy / politics / news, and celebrities having conversations. Any of your favs make the list?

Further proof of Bluesky being included in the conversation: Transistor.fm allows you to pull a person’s profile from Bluesky now. Super handy feature I use all the time on some podcasts I work on.

Screenshot of Transistor’s dashboard showing a “pull this person’s info from an online profile” including Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, and X.

At least Neville’s putting all my podcasting gear to good use while I try to figure out if / what I should do for a podcast. 😆😴

Neville my puppy resting his head awkwardly on a mic stand on the floor.Neville my puppy resting his head really awkwardly on a mic stand on the floor.

Inspired by a recent convo in the ShopTalk Show Discord, should you bleep / edit swears in your podcast? (TLDR: IMHO it doesn’t really matter as long as you’re consistent with what your listeners expect of your show.)

2024 seems to be the year some tech companies are “taking their podcast production in house”. It feels like the ying / yang of how these things go, just sucks to be on the yang of it. Or is it the ying?

(p.s. give your contractors a heads up so they can plan accordingly.)

It’s the time of year when the sound of the birds flying overhead on their journey south can be loud enough that I hear them with my headphones on while editing a podcast. #WinterIsComing

RIP iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle. I think parents would love an iPad nano style device with a basic GPS tracking feature built in so kids could listen to music or podcasts, and do some sort of of basic messaging.

First time in my podcast editing career that someone was having contractions while recording the podcast. 🎉 (No word on whether they’ve had the baby yet!)

With Chartable, a podcast analytics app, being shut down by Spotify after they acquired it 2 years ago (who saw that coming??), Dan at Bumper has some good options for what should you use instead..

A theory that isn’t 100% true or accurate, but feels truthy sometimes: Software developers would rather spend a year building an AI bot to help them write better emails / record better podcasts / make better videos / etc. than work on their own skills in those areas.