The last word in podcasting news. Every Friday James Cridland (⚡james@crid.land ) and Sam Sethi (⚡sam@getalby.com) review and analyse the week's top podcasting news as covered on Podnews. We also interview some of the biggest names in podcasting making the news. Support the show at https://weekly.podnews.net - or hit the boost button! Sponsored by Buzzsprout: podcast hosting made easy.
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Special Guests:
Adam Curry (Podfather) & DaveJones (Podsage) talk about:
How the podcast namespace started?
Why it will never be called Podcast 3.0?
Why Value4Value has already jumped the ‘Chasm of Adoption’?
What new tags are Adam/Dave most excited about in Phase 6 of the namespace?
Show Notes & Links:
Goodbye to Evo Terra's Podcast Pontifications and hello to The End
Buzzsprout has become the first major podcast host to remove email addresses from RSS feeds.
The podcast:txt tag in the new podcast namespace has been formalised.
Amazon has made big changes to Amazon Music Prime, including ad-free podcasts.
Buzzsprout’s platform stats for September give Amazon Music a 0.7% market share of all podcast downloads
Amazon has “fired half of its Amp live radio division”
Elon Musk @elonmusk "Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month."
@jack's new alternative to existing social networks like Twitter. https://bsky.app
Detail is a new tool built for quickly shooting
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