‘But Mr. Zaleski said he was appalled at being replaced by a machine-generated substitute. “I was very angry that real, deep talks and real interviews with real people were replaced with something totally fake.”’
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‘Roughly 3 out of 4 major American newspapers have stopped endorsing for president — something that nearly all of them did just twenty years ago.‘Roughly 3 out of 4 major American newspapers have stopped endorsing for president — something that nearly all of them did just twenty years ago. A trend that began in 2012 has accelerated in every cycle since and now overtaken most of the industry.’
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‘That year, Elwood received $200 from the then-unknown America Online, merely because his wife worked at a predecessor company.‘That year, Elwood received $200 from the then-unknown America Online, merely because his wife worked at a predecessor company. He was asked to simply record four voiceover lines:
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‘And regarding if windowing undermines the open RSS ecosystem.‘And regarding if windowing undermines the open RSS ecosystem. If it worked well, it might have. But it didn’t. The worst impact on the open RSS feed is that it just makes things confusing for listeners.
They just want to find the shows they want where they expect to find them–and get lost (and then disinterested) when we start putting obstacles in their way.’
https://audioinsurgent.substack.com/p/its-time-to-ask-eric-anything
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‘Academic publishing is yet another example of the artificial.@mikeneumann bleak
but if the incentive is to "produce plausible documents", why not use the new tools specifically designed to do that?
will be interesting to see what language is used (if any) to tweak the incentives
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‘Academic publishing is yet another example of the artificial.‘Academic publishing is yet another example of the artificial. We’ve let the epiphenomenal outputs of doing science, of generating knowledge, of thinking, stand in for the phenomenon itself.
The idea that using “AI” as a shortcut for human work will produce a de-skilling of new generations is now well-understood.’
https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/for-profit-academic-publishers-love
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here's a new and exciting innovation in podcast rss spec crimehere's a new and exciting innovation in podcast rss spec crime
just another day in paradise
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don't believe em when they say loops doesn't federate.@dansup looking forward to when it gets switched on for everybody
also would love to see enumerable collection items for outbox/followers etc instead of counts only
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New data: Top CDNs used by the 2.0 million new podcast episodes in October 2024New data: Top CDNs used by the 2.0 million new podcast episodes in October 2024
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New data!what's interesting is that everything is public, it's no secret which prefixes are used in public rss feeds
At the time that story came out, I did notice that the OP3 prefix is no longer in their feed
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New data!and if you 🧐🧐🧐 you can finally spot my upstart op3.dev (dark orange on the second chart)
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New data!New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 2.0 million new eps published in October 2024
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New data!New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 2.0 million new eps in October 2024
- Spreaker, Megaphone, and Acast with share gains
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New data: Buzzsprout released their self-reported podcast stats for October, I updated my page charting them over timeNew data: Buzzsprout released their self-reported podcast stats for October, I updated my page charting them over time
- new all-time high for #1 Spotify: 41.5%
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‘Johnson and Van Wing have both decided that the best way forward for their podcasts is to reduce the number of feeds that listeners are sent to’‘Johnson and Van Wing have both decided that the best way forward for their podcasts is to reduce the number of feeds that listeners are sent to’
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/the-future-of-true-crime-sounds-like-public-radio/
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‘The station’s editor-in-chief, Marcin Pulit, did, however, admit that they “were surprised by the level of emotion that accompanied this experiment”’‘The station’s editor-in-chief, Marcin Pulit, did, however, admit that they “were surprised by the level of emotion that accompanied this experiment”’
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‘As seasoned authors and broadcasters, they also embraced podcasting because it put them in control.‘As seasoned authors and broadcasters, they also embraced podcasting because it put them in control.
“You don’t need to dumb down to get an audience…We can rely on our listeners to be interested”’
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‘Siri remains software I distrust. Like Federighi, I would struggle to list my usage beyond a handful of simple commands — timers, reminders, and the occasional message.’‘Siri remains software I distrust. Like Federighi, I would struggle to list my usage beyond a handful of simple commands — timers, reminders, and the occasional message.’
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@js Do you have a preferred method of adding Podtrac prefixes to an OP3-measured show? Should I add Podtrac before or after OP3?@james it really makes no functional difference