Tag: Podcasts
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Why I stopped producing my music podcast, Sats and Sounds
After a 100-episode run, I stopped producing my music podcast, Sats and Sounds (the site will remain up for some time). I billed it as one of the first Value4Value (V4V) music podcasts on the internet, and it was. Boostagram Ball predates my show, but not by much. I launched in August 2023 with a…
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Sats and Sounds – Episode 6 – 2023.09.25
The next episode of my short three track podcast is up! This week it’s a single artist with some catchy poppy tunes. Sats and Sounds – Episode 6 – 2023.09.25 Listen to it with Podfriend. But first, set up your Alby account so you can link it to Podfriend and send sats while you listen.…
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Sats and Sounds Episode 3 – 2023.09.04
I’m not a DJ and I never played one on TV. Never the less, I launched a new web site and podcast called Sats and Sounds. Every week I play three songs that are Value4Value enabled. It’s a quick hit three track listen with independent artists you may not have heard before. They’re songs I…
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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…