Another reminder that Spotify podcasting was reckless with money. I feel bad for the good podcast folks who got hired and then fired because of deals like this. Woof.

Possibly half-baked Friday afternoon thought: If you own a local radio station, you should be setting up a side business for selling podcast advertising. The same sales team doing the work to sell radio adverts can also sell podcast ads.

While editing a client’s podcast, I learned about t.ly as a very short URL shortener. Plus it’s run by an indie dev, so you’re not giving money to some faceless corporation.

I wonder if the upcoming macOS game mode will also be a good “podcasting mode” option for podcasters?

Admittedly a privileged perspective (Ben Thompson is a tech writer and podcaster, appears to have a lot of money, etc.), but his vision of Apple Vision is both compelling and sad at the same time.

Buried in my podcast editing contract is a bullet point that reads “if you imitate a wrestler from the 80’s or 90’s at any point in your podcast, I am obligated to include a snippet of their entrance music”. I’ve never had to act on that… until today.

I’ve taken enough words into my earballs via editing podcasts about TypeScript that you’d think I’d understand what it is. But I still don’t really get it. And I’m fine with that tbh.

I know HTML + CSS things, and I’m a expert level FrontPage ‘98 user - why move forward from perfection?

Top podcast hosting companies by episode share is interesting. I assume Spotify for Podcasters is so high because they folded in all the free formerly Anchor based podcasts?

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