Tag: Podcasting
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Brookings Institution is coming after podcasting
The Brookings Institution, partly funded by Apple and Facebook, is coming after podcasting. Why? Because anyone can be a podcaster and there is no major platform that controls content. The author calls out RSS as a problem for it’s open nature and difficulty of cutting the feed. If the feed is removed from one platform…
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Joe Rogan proves the paywall gives and takes
Joe Rogan shows that going behind an exclusive paywall doesn’t pay in every respect. He has a secure contract that pays him likely way more than he was making before (otherwise why do the deal) but his influence in the social sphere seems to have waned. He gained money but lost popularity. It’s the same…
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I’d rather be lumped in with the crazies, freaks, nutcases, and crackpots than to live in a sanitized world
Recently I got into a small back and forth with a prominent person in the podcast industry. Nothing heated but we had a fundamental disagreement with the direction of podcasting and the influence of advertising. One of the things that seem to offend him is the term “PLATFORM FOR FREE SPEECH”. The people that feel…
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Tech behemoths battle to wall off podcasting
Aside from the news up in Minnesota other things are happening in the world and what happened today that has implications for free speech. Apple announced Apple Podcast Subscriptions. The purpose is to compete with Spotify and some of the latest upstarts in the podcast space. This has free speech implications because Apple controls the…
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They’re coming for the podcasters
It’s time for anyone with a podcast to get listed with podcastindex.org, stop using Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and move to Podcasting 2.0 compliant apps. Traditional media and the government will soon be coming for podcasts and podcasters. If podcasting is going to be a platform for free speech the media silos need to…
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Ad supported media continues to be detrimental to free speech
Watch what you say. Be careful who you offend. Someone is always out there looking to boycott the people that advertise with you. Podcasting, the last bastion of free speech in media, is now going to be under the watchful ears of Madison Avenue and “The Media Roundtable”. They will be the arbiter of what…