Podcasting 2.0
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Episode 261: Podhemian Grove
Podcasting 2.0 May 29th 2026 Episode 261 - "Podhemian Grove" Podcasting 2.0 May 29th 2026 Episode 261 - "Podhemian Grove" Mike Dell joined the board room to help Adam and Dave with the solution to the Secret Pdcast Group's Problems. Download the mp3 Podcast Feed PodcastIndex.org Preservepodcasting.com Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com <i>Support us with your Time Talent and Treasure</i> Show Notes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 - ALLIANCE FOR MEASUREMENT IN PODCASTING — Podnews press release this morning: Alliance for Measurement in Podcasting (AMP) launches. Industry consortium for podcast measurement standards. Dave reblog with snark (May 29): "They want better app metrics for their ad-tech but the only 'app' in their council is Spotify. 😆 There's a right way to do this IMO, but this is not it." Discussion: measurement standards written by/for ad-tech — what would Dave's "right way" look like? Podcast Index neutrality vs industry-coalition co-opting. Podnews AMP press release Dave's reblog ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 - SPOTIFY INVESTOR DAY — CREATOR MEMBERSHIPS (PATREON KILLER) + CLIPS + AGENTIC AI ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 - BIPOC PODCAST CREATORS CLOSES — DEI FUNDING COLLAPSE → COMMUNITY ORG OFFLINE BIPOC Podcast Creators (American podcast org for Black/Indigenous/People of Color creators) closes. PNWR interviews the co-founders 00:27:00 → 00:43:00. Co-founder reflection: "the beginning of our podcast careers… feeling really…" DEI funding pulled by new government (00:31:30): "we started to see a decline in the investment." Direct call to platforms (00:36:00): "What is Spotify going to do? What is Apple, you…" Legacy framing (00:39:00, 00:40:30): "You two created the first and the largest…" / "We made a mark in the history of this industry." Discussion: DEI-funding-collapse → community-org-closure pattern. Platforms' responsibility to creator communities they don't host. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 - DAVE'S PACKAGE-MANAGER-SUPPLY-CHAIN-ATTACKS RIFF — "OSS WEAPONIZED BY AI" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05 - LEO EMBRACES PODCASTING 2.0 — MAGIC CHAPTERS FOR CLUB TWIT MEMBERS Drebscott observation May 28: Leo has finally embraced Podcasting 2.0 — added podcast: tags to TWiT shows. Paid Club TWiT members get chapters and don't get the funding tag. Paid Members get podcast:chapters; others get free podcast:funding. Dave (May 28 multiple posts): "I noticed it too. It makes me feel valued as a TWiT club subscriber. Having chapters makes my WW and SN listening so much more enjoyable. I'm very thankful for it." Dave: "I wanted to use magic chapters in my Castamatic but my iPhone 13 doesn't support the needed APIs. And, like you, I was pleasantly surprised when one day they showed up!" Nathan working on podcast:image support for Podlink — asking for feed examples that already support it (May 28). Discussion: differentiated namespace use by membership tier — clever segmentation. Compare to Spotify Creator Memberships (above) — Leo's RSS-native paywall vs Spotify's on-platform paywall. Drebscott observation Nathan podcast:image ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 - RSS-AS-BLOG + <sopml:origin> + THREADED CONVERSATIONS IN RSS — DAVE + @FAHRNI THREAD ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 - JS SPURLOCK SPOTLIGHT — FLIGHTCAST H.265 + SIGNED-HLS PUSHBACK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 - POD ROLL ATLAS + /DATASETS — STATUS CHECK FROM PC20-260 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 - TRUEFANS RSS PAYMENT METADATA BUGS (JS NAMESPACE QC) JS Spurlock to @samsethi May 16: truefans RSS payment metadata has field-naming bugs. Flagged against PR #734. Bug list: "podcast" should be "feed_title"; missing required "split" + "timestamp" fields; "episode_guid" should be "item_guid"; "episode" should be "item_title"; "url" is not defined. 30-sec namespace-discipline beat — payment metadata correctness matters because boostagram split routing breaks silently when fields are mis-named. PR #734 (truefans payment metadata) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 - PREMIUM RSS / SHARE-EQUALITY + HLS APPLE COMING IN (PNWR TAIL) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Last Modified 05/29/2026 14:09:19 by Freedom Controller  
May 29
1 hr 26 min
Episode 260: Tennessee Trickshot
Podcasting 2.0 May 15th 2026 Episode 260 - "Tennessee Trickshot" Podcasting 2.0 May 15th 2026 Episode 260 - "Tennessee Trickshot" Adam & Dave Predict The Winter. That's all you need to know! Download the mp3 Synopsis Podcast Feed PodcastIndex.org Preservepodcasting.com Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com Support us with your Time Talent and Treasure ShowNotes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 - NGINX Rift: Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 - ROB GREENLEE'S LLM-GHOSTWRITTEN "FRINGE REGRET" RETRACTION (folder: 06 Rob-Greenlee-Fringe) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 - The DGX Spark Donated by RSS.com Aesus DB10 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 - POD ROLL ATLAS @ atlas.rss.io — DAVE'S /datasets PAGE SHIPS, ALBERTO BUILDS THE POSTER CHILD (folder: 02 Pod-Roll-Atlas) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05 - DAVE'S SPAM CLASSIFIER SHIPPING WEEK + THE "AISTEN"/"RAPIDLU" BOT WAR (folder: 08 Dave-Spam-Bot-War) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 - AI SLOP LANDS ON SPOTIFY MEGAPHONE WITH ZERO DISCLOSURE (folder: 04 AI-Slop-Megaphone) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 - JOHN ENNIS "HEAVEN AND EARTH" — THE RALPH-WIGGUM LOOP THESIS ON LLMs + DAVE'S CODING-AGENT CONFESSIONAL (folder: 05 Ennis-Heaven-Earth) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 - HLS VIDEO TIPPING POINT — AMAZON MUSIC + SPOTIFY MEGAPHONE BOTH JOIN APPLE'S HLS IN A SINGLE WEEK (folder: 07 HLS-Video-Tipping-Point) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09 - UP NEXT — HOLGER KRUPP'S MIT-LICENSED SERVERLESS iOS PODCAST APP (folder: 03 Up-Next-App) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources Last Modified 05/15/2026 14:35:52 by Freedom Controller  
May 15
1 hr 37 min
Episode 259: SlopJacked
Podcasting 2.0 May 1st 2026 Episode 259 - "SlopJacked" Dave ships first-party data at the app level - the new /upload/followcounts endpoint changes everything. Plus the podcast:contact; proposal, RSS.com's Alberto Betella on AI disclosure as enforcement substrate Download the mp3 Podcast Feed PodcastIndex.org Preservepodcasting.com Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com Support us with your Time Talent and Treasure ShowNotes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bloomberg article we discussed about podslop, featuring the chicken guy from Alabama ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 - DAVE SHIPS /upload/followcounts — FIRST-PARTY DATA AT THE APP LEVEL (folder: 01 Dave-Ships-Followcounts) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 - <podcast:contact> NAMESPACE PROPOSAL (folder: 02 Contact-Namespace) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 - ALBERTO BETELLA (RSS.com CEO) — AI DISCLOSURE TAG AS ENFORCEMENT SUBSTRATE (folder: 03 Alberto-RSS-AI-Disclosure) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 - TUCSON DENTAL CARE SEO SPAM PODCAST CLEANUP (folder: 04 Tucson-Dental-SEO-Spam) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05 - AI HARDWARE CRUNCH — $65 BILLION US POWER EQUIPMENT BOOM (folder: 05 AI-Hardware-Crunch) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 - ANTHROPIC + AI PRICING FOLLOW-UP (folder: 06 Anthropic-AI-Pricing) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 - ROBLOX TANKS 18% ON CHILD SAFETY MEASURES (folder: 07 Roblox-Child-Safety) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 - BOARDROOM NEWS BITES (folder: 08 Boardroom-News-Bites) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clip Sources Last Modified 05/01/2026 14:18:38 by Freedom Controller  
May 1
1 hr 23 min
Episode 258: Perceptron
Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron" Dave and Adam walk through the entire technical process of building an industry resource for auto-flagging spam and slop podcasts. It's a doozy! Shownotes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Booking Tag ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DeepSeek V4 Released — Open Source AI From China DeepSeek V4 released April 24 — two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active) Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) — not Nvidia V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens — cheapest frontier-class model available White House OSTP accusing China of 'industrial-scale' distillation of US AI models Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude Our own testing: DeepSeek V3.1 on Together.ai is 4-10x faster and half the cost of Llama 3.3 70B for production tasks CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21 Developer backlash immediate — reversed within hours Head of Growth: 'a test on 2% of new signups' — but page changes were global Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier The AI subscription model is structurally broken — WeWork/Uber playbook StartupFortune article Anthropic postmortem (April 23) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Voluntary Buyout — 7% of US Workforce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics for Today Podping / namespace updates? Feed cloning follow-up from 257 — any new developments? Sovereign Feeds update — feed editing experience Last Modified 04/24/2026 14:38:32 by Freedom Controller  
Apr 24
1 hr 39 min
Episode 257: Slop Factory
Podcasting 2.0 April 17th 2026 Episode 257 - Slop Factory Show Notes CI/CD Prompt Injection — Claude Code, Gemini CLI Credential Theft ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fountain Flooding the API — 1.5 Million Hits in 24 Hours ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feed Cloning Epidemic — Spam Flavor of the Moment -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apr 17
1 hr 32 min
Episode 256: Master of Disaster
Podcasting 2.0 April 3rd 2026 Episode 256: "Master of Disaster"   ShowNotes Index API Under Bot Attack   "Lyra" bots destroying API. OpenClaw scrapers (creator hired by OpenAI). Steno.fm 500 req/min. Dave: "Now I'm just angry." @dave on Lyra bots @dave on reflypod/OpenClaw OpenClaw Drama ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Podping Alpha - Dave 6 Releases This Week v0.4.0-v0.4.5: swarm health metrics, peer announcements, gossip-listener hang fix. @suorcd contributing PRs. Podping alpha releases "Dave did SIX podping releases this week. At this rate, podping will be at version 47 by Christmas. Still in alpha." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buzzsprout Free Transcripts Free auto transcripts for paid plans. Speaker ID (unlike Apple). Chapters integration. Fanmail reply + voicemail. Podnews: Buzzsprout transcripts The Criddler on PC20 Complicated Community Transcript Format Debate - Deep Research ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOT - Podcast Portals Land Grab (Beehiiv, Speakeasy, Substack)   Three hosting launches in one week. Do ANY support namespace tags, V4V, or Podping? Beehiiv launches podcast hosting - no revenue cut, IAB analytics Speakeasy (Red Seat/Fox Corp) - invitation-only, Backtracks ad-tech @samsethi: "Podcast portals offering hosting as ancillary service" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apr 3
1 hr 31 min
Episode 255: Snark Week
Podcasting 2.0 March 27th 2026 Episode 255: "Snark Week" Adam & Dave Are joined by Nathan Gathright to discuss his latest project and writing Nathan Gathright Pod.Link The Standards Innovation Paradox
Mar 27
1 hr 27 min
Episode 254: Pop a TTermy!
Podcasting 2.0 March 20th 2026 Episode 254: "Pop a TTermy!" Adam & Dave discuss chapter formats, who controls the final creative output and we dodge The Criddler! ShowNotes We are LIT opencode currycaster rodecaster pipewire Booking code - Alex Sanfillipo - podmatch.com Transcript format reduction Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats   Last Modified 03/20/2026 14:16:52 by Freedom Controller  
Mar 20
1 hr 33 min
Episode 253: Dirty Fix
Podcasting 2.0 March 13th 2026 Episode 253: "Dirty Fix" Adam & Dave are joined by Brendan from Podpage and they firs up the new podping gossip watcher ShowNotes We are LIT Brendan Mulligan - Podpage open-claw sucks Running the podping gossip listener Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 03/13/2026 14:20:09 by Freedom Controller  
Mar 13
1 hr 39 min
Episode 252: Joy Robber
Podcasting 2.0 March 6th 2026 Episode 252: "Joy Robber" Adam & Dave say one man's slop is another man's pr0n. A discussion ensues ShowNotes We are LIT AI Tag - rss.com Apple Music launches AI transparency tags — but only if labels and distributors declare them Investigate deprecation and removal of XSLT [435623334] - Chromium Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 03/06/2026 14:19:19 by Freedom Controller  
Mar 6
1 hr 33 min
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