Fredrik chats with Dave Jones of Podcast index - a new open podcast directory and API, and also one of the drivers of a new podcasting namespace for RSS.
Podcasting as infrastructure has not advanced much at all in a long time. Dave, Adam and Podcast index wants to preserve podcasting as free and distributed, and also advance what the ecosystem can be - such as providing value.
The namespace contains down-to-earth things such as chapters and location tags, but also much more ambitious ideas. Part of the vision is to reimagine podcasting as a platform of value where listeners can more easily and naturally support not only podcasters, but also app developers and anyone else who might be involved. This is where the value tag and cryptocurrencies enter the picture.
We also discuss programming languages a bit - what it takes to entice you to really get into a programming language. Perhaps the specific languages we use are no longer as critical as they used to be?
How hard is it to set up your own podcast directory? Not that hard, says David, but keeping it within a sane budget can take some balancing. And if everyone supported Websub things wouldn’t be nearly as tricky.
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Links
Dave Jones
Birmingham, Alabama
Adam Curry
Podcast index
The podcast index API
The yellow pages
Apple’s podcast directory
Podcast addict
Marco Arment, creator of the podcast app Overcast
XML namespaces
The podcast namespace
Podlove and their namespace
Atom links for payment
Buzzsprout and transcripts
XKCD about standards
The value for value model
Blubrry
Fireside
Transistor
Captivate
Acast
Pocket casts
OPML
Satoshis
Sphinx chat
Podcasting 2.0 podcast episode 10 - introducing the value tag
Lightning
Breez lightning wallet app
Anita Posch - German bitcoin podcaster
Deplatforming
Podcast Chapters
Thomas Pritchard
Forecast
Swift
Vapor
Webpack
Nginx
The Podcast index website on Github
JSX
Websub
Webhooks
Libsyn
Superfeedr
Google’s websub hub
Google reader
JSON chapter export in Podcast Chapters
ID3 metadata
Stitcher
Pandora
Rush
The mind and the brain
Joe Rogan
Alex Jones
podcastindex.social - the Mastodon instance for discussing the namespace and more
Titles
Podcasting as a platform for free speech
Podcasting as a platform of value
Take back the open nature of podcasting
Apple or Google is not the center of the universe
A big chicken and egg problem
People have been wedging things in
Picks and shovels
The value block
100 Satoshis a minute
If I know I can pay this podcaster
A very steep learning curve
Developers are busy
Beyond the point where the language layer is the critical part of the puzzle
npm audit fix and hope for the best
Now you’ve got two stacks
The reverse of JSX
1.3 million feeds
Not as distributed as you’d like it to be
Google reader bad vibes
You just don’t get pinged sometimes
You don’t have to be at the mercy of Google
The days of free need to die
Free is very expensive
The silo companies
But you don’t have to sell your soul
AI your way into discovery
Always human suggestion
A personal relation of some kind
Synapses firing in the brain
Aboutness
Science our way out of every problem
What makes artificial intelligence artificial
Err on the side of freedom
A de-humanizing force
International fun time
