Four years ago, I started the Fun Fact podcast with Arik Devens, and we’re still having a lot of fun every month sharing facts about schemes, history, science, and so on. I’ve increasingly felt the itch, though, for a second show. I learn so much talking through product and engineering...

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In iOS 11, Apple made a variety of changes and improvements to the Apple Podcasts app and spec. Among other things, they added support for a new show format: serial podcasts. Finally, narrative-driven shows could request to be shown in strict chronological order. As part of this change, Apple added...

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Fun Fact is a new podcast where, every other Friday, Arik Devens and I discuss a variety of fun facts. They range from historical, to practical, to garburetor-related. It’s fun. This year, in addition to my typical longer articles, I’ll also post some simple links from time to time. This...

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A year ago I wrote about the modern era of podcasts. In that article, I made a forward-looking statement: With all this growth, what improvements are we seeing in the tools? As of this writing, a horde of developers are building podcast listening apps. Podcast recording apps, on the other...

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In November, my co-founder Nigel and I started planning an app to help record podcasts. Before we could do it right, we needed to do two things first: investigate the podcasting industry, and start a show of our own. Before we could start a show, we needed a format. Formatting…...

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In February 2005, Ev Williams and Noah Glass launched an exciting new podcasting business called Odeo. Podcasting, or “audioblogging”, was booming. The Great Startup Cynicism of the early 2000s was lifting, and podcasting was the Next Big Thing. The New York Times explained: Mr. Williams, who is 32, helped found...

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