Notices by John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)

‘As the older generations die, they take with them their knowledge of what was lost when the new technology arrived. Only the sense of what was gained remains. It’s in this way that progress covers its tracks, perpetually refreshing the illusion that where we are is where we were meant to be.’

https://www.newcartographies.com/p/flame-and-filament

Seeing "ingest" used in some of the analysis around the upcoming Apple HLS video podcast feature.

This is wrong.

One of the coolest parts of the new feature is that Apple is _not_ "ingesting" (nom, nom) anything.

It merely has a url pointer to the video hosted _elsewhere_ - exactly like podcasting has always been.

No ingestion!

‘As Abdine put it, “A very important core truth of podcasting is you meet your audience where they live.”’

https://deadline.com/2026/02/netflix-video-podcasts-analysis-deal-analysis-1236728838/

@tchambers @dave yea the hosting company calls the Apple api to associate an HLS url with an existing podcast episode, using an API key given to them by the creator

https://podcasters.apple.com/support/5593-how-to-publish-video

@tchambers _some_ hosting companies might _also_ choose to include the HLS in the RSS feed as well, which is the only thing that really helps the open podcasting world.

But that's not required by any means.

@tchambers some hosting companies do the latter (hls in rss), but not the former (hls in apple podcasts) like the RSS.com announcement I mentioned earlier

which, if I'm understanding it properly is essentially "bring your own HLS url" - in this case it would be on the creator to chop/host the hls and media segments somewhere themselves

@tchambers eh, the experience goes through their hosting company, which might look different from company to company.

I'd imagine the typical flow is: creator gives the hosting company one huge video, and the hosting company chops it up, creates the HLS, inserts any dynamic ad interstitials, and hosts the playlist and media segments.

Creators never see HLS.

@tchambers only if their podcast hosting company does, right now there are four

not sure I understand the second part of your question

started a list of Apple Podcasts shows with HLS video support, have you found any others?

https://gist.github.com/johnspurlock/0498c4323ee645dc4b70f1fc3a031499

@tchambers hls is more or less owned by apple, but a great open spec and fits in with RSS very easily

@tchambers with the latest version of hls, its possible to have both mpeg dash and hls playlist files point to essentially the same underlying segment files

@tchambers correct, and Spotify. important to have an open alternative

with the upcoming HLS video support in Apple Podcasts, looking forward to hosting companies _also_ using the open standard for this (using podcast:alternateEnclosure) in the same feed, why not?

I show every podcast using this standard at https://hls.livewire.io and will be keeping an extra keen eye on it

‘When one of the shows publishes a new episode, the tool automatically downloads it, transcribes it, summarizes the transcript. Every 24 hrs the tool collates those summaries and generates a meta-summary with shared talking points and other notable daily trends.’

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-the-new-york-times-uses-a-custom-ai-tool-to-track-the-manosphere/

‘The challenge with the benefit side of data centers is that the long-term job creation is very low, it's usually like less than 100 people. We may need to think about what can we do to show some benefit to the community: waste heat is one opportunity to do that.’

https://www.ideastream.org/environment-energy/2026-02-05/how-could-ai-data-centers-benefit-surrounding-communities-new-report-says-recycle-the-excess-heat

and they didst gnash their teeth and rend their garments, for their bitcoins had diminished before their very eyes

https://podcastindex.social/@js/116010316829283623

New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.9 million new episodes published in January 2026

https://livewire.io/podcast-trackers-by-episode-share/

New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.9 million new episodes published in January 2026

https://livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-episode-share/

‘PodPilot: Launch Your Daily Podcast in Minutes, Fully Automated

AI writes, voices, and publishes your entire 30-day podcast schedule automatically—zero editing, zero technical setup, just hit publish.’

https://www.podpilot.org/

as a former system UI guy, it's sad to see the pivot here

but as an iphone user, and in this specific case, I do think it's the right call

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-21/ios-27-apple-to-revamp-siri-as-built-in-iphone-mac-chatbot-to-fend-off-openai?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2OTAyNDk2NywiZXhwIjoxNzY5NjI5NzY3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOFRXOVlLR0NURlUwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.awOoIDGdEkCAvho8waoXR6VVVojI3jGvQHJeDjwcyrs&leadSource=uverify%20wall