@dave who was that philosopher you quoted on the Podcasting 2.0 show? You said something like "technology will always do it's worst thing."
I've been quoting that endlessly since I heard you say it; now I need the source!
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@dave who was that philosopher you quoted on the Podcasting 2.0 show? You said something like "technology will always do it's worst thing."
I've been quoting that endlessly since I heard you say it; now I need the source!
When I left twitter I deleted 60,000+ tweets.
I've always wanted to have a searchable twitter archive on my personal website.
Couldn't find a service that would do it for me.
Finally built it with Claude Code:
https://justinjackson.ca/tweets/
Axios post-mortem:
https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/10636
Podcast guest invite as an attack vector is interesting.
Video podcast hosting is coming soon to Transistor!
You'll be able to upload video and have it distributed everywhere: YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and HLS video in RSS via the `alternateEnclosure` tag.
Learn more and sign up for the waiting list here:
https://transistor.fm/features/video/
Today Eddy Cue (one of Apple's top executives) appeared on the TBPN podcast.
The episode has been published (via HLS video) to Apple Podcasts:
https://transistor.fm/eddy-cue-video-podcast
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M in 2026, for "low hundreds of millions of dollars"; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4fe4972a-3d24-45be-b9fa-a429c432b08e
http://www.techmeme.com/260402/p26#a260402p26
I'll be live on the New Media Show today with podcast hall-of-famer, @robgreenlee.
We'll definitely be chatting about video podcasting, HLS, AI, and the future of RSS.

The idea that podcasts were always meant to be "audio only" is just not true.
Here's Steve Jobs demoing video podcasts in iTunes/iPod back in 2005:
