Notices by James Cridland (james@bne.social), page 4

Oddly excited about Kamala Harris running for US president: such a good choice against Trump. Can they have Pete Butt-cheeks or whatever his name is as VP? He seems good too. #uspol

Google Podcasts is now turned off - everywhere. It would be interesting to see a special chart from @js ’s OP3, showing download traffic to Google Podcasts dribbling away. This is Podnews Daily’s data for “all time” (but, naturally, Google have deleted most of the data already). What a squandered opportunity.

Still wondering how @Podnews might use the fediverse (more than we do). First step might be to allow signin using the fediverse - if there is a standard way to achieve that on ActivityPub. (I am assuming there is only a standard way to do that with the Mastodon API). I’m also a little dubious of social sign-ins, since I think too many people forgot how they signed-in. I wonder how else…

What a great way of explaining federation. Never thought of it this way. Brilliant.

From: @evan
https://cosocial.ca/@evan/112531361324308766

This is the BEST THING ON THE INTERNET. The Ghost team, documenting getting their product working with ActivityPub. What an excellent thing. I don’t understand much of it, but it’s still an email I’m already looking forward to.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day3/

@tchambers @dave @adam Yes. Or there’s services like Rephonic which just guesses. (But it does a decent job guessing).

I didn't realise that OP3 kept data on podcast apps and their overall share of downloads. But it does. And so, now does the Podcast Business Journal. I should seek out more stats for this. https://podcastbusinessjournal.com/data/podcast-apps/

And an interesting stat - "The big three - Apple, Spotify and Amazon Music - currently account for 74.02% of all downloads."

As an aside: this is the first time I've actually seen data suggesting that Spotify is #1 for downloads (rather than #1 for total listeners).

I've also added some of the data from the Podcast Index's stats here, under the guise of "new podcast features" - https://podcastbusinessjournal.com/data/podcast-features/ - which suggests that shortly we'll hit 2.5mn episodes with creator-supplied transcripts.

Oh, exciting - my keynote from Podcast Movement Evolutions has been published. Here it is! No pictures of my fancy suit though. https://youtu.be/Pz_5IS2IkFg?si=zofrWlo0eVDZkRlz

@tchambers @andypiper @agates @evan @laurenshof @Podnews @227573 Thanks. I guess I need to work out what the best thing is to promote - “Fediverse” or “Mastodon” (I know, I know).

@agates @evan @laurenshof @tchambers What should I be doing for @Podnews - linking to pages like @227573 for a start I suppose. Is there a recognisable fediverse/activitypub logo?

Very good news.

Libsyn's podcast platform stats look odd for December. A big (10%) drop for Apple Podcasts. And a massive 7x increase for... Firefox. Not sure I buy it. https://livewire.io/libsyn-stats-visualized/

@js A full transcript is here. https://podnews.net/article/podcasting-20-clear

I agree wholeheartedly with much of what they both say. Notably, @theDanielJLewis spent some time trying to do a clearer website to educate more people about Podcasting 2.0. I tried to do similar with podcastnamespace.org as well. It’s got nowhere, and I’m disappointed about that.

@theDanielJLewis @adam @js @dave I think you should build it. Happy to help.

As you're aware, I have regularly whined that "The Podcast Index" and "The New Podcast Namespace" are two different things. As Marco proves, you can use one without the other.

We should use this criticism to learn and grow Podcasting 2.0, not to retrench behind the singularly unhelpful "podcasting industrial complex" bullshit. If the big boys trusted us and adopted the spec, that would be most helpful.

I've added a suggestion to the podcast:contentLink idea that @nathan is proposing. It’s the ability to select a recommended podcast app, so that podcasters can recommend the app they would prefer you listen on.

Particularly, this might be interesting for @adam (who is doing something similar in his podcast), but also might generate rather a lovely “recommended apps” data view for @dave to produce one day.

https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/discussions/589#discussioncomment-8130357

@nathan @dave This webpage dialog works well. There is a fair amount of already-existing work about this; notably, this version a) auto-completes from a list somewhere; b) cookies the result so next time it never bothers asking you.

I did find a few relatively simple ones on Github, but naturally can’t find one right now! I bet it’s possible to write the whole thing in JavaScript… perhaps I should have a go for the Podnews podcast pages.

One for developers, perhaps - @js @dave etc. I thought it might be useful to compile a list of Github repos. https://podnews.net/article/github-repositories