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TEH 154: Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda’s.
57 minutes Posted Feb 2, 2022 at 5:51 pm.
GR: The Spotify thing… Neil Young vs. Spotify.
What makes this different: Exclusivity, subscription model,
Their business model makes it different than Apple Podcasts. Podcasters not tied to each other.
Censorship misunderstandings.
Creating balanced stories, can’t balance falsehood with truth.
LN: It’s bigger than vaccines
Audio quality (compression) lowers quality of audio. Neil Young on the quality.
Alternatives: Amazon Music Unlimited, but Spotify’s selection is huge. Apple?
Brene Brown: Pausing podcasts – Spotify response, moderation rules.
TEH podcast is in numerous places.
LN: Sony picks up Bungie. Gaming is important.
Metaverse… immersive with VR goggles.
GR: Wordle! Shoulda been me… web based games suddenly come back.
The keyboard
How it accidentally(?) positioned itself for virality. (And the New York Times, apparently.)
Ease of sharing (competitive)
Do a Google search for Wordle… not in app store, be careful.
Wordle anger from the non-Wordles.
ONE WORD – ‘initially’ – is pissing people off.
One word a day… how to monitize it.
GR: How to cheat… but why?
LN: Bobba Fett.
LN: (And, for the geeks, Windows has it’s own SSH server – from Microsoft, no less.)
GR: “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson. (Why wasn’t I targeted?)
LN: How Do I Turn Off BitLocker on a Drive? Surprise encryption!
GR: How To Troubleshoot iPhone Auto-Correct Problems
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In This Episode: Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda’s.
This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.
(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)
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0:17 GR: The Spotify thing… Neil Young vs. Spotify.
20:15 LN: It’s bigger than vaccines
21:50 Audio quality (compression) lowers quality of audio. Neil Young on the quality.
26:40 Brene Brown: Pausing podcasts – Spotify response, moderation rules.
30:16 LN: Sony picks up Bungie. Gaming is important.
33:00 GR: Wordle! Shoulda been me… web based games suddenly come back.
Wordle 227 3/6 (Boxes are characters in a string of text)
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The New York Times Buys Wordle – Will NYT put it behind a paywall?
46:00 GR: How to cheat… but why?
Ain’t it Cool
47:55 LN: Bobba Fett.
49:14 LN: (And, for the geeks, Windows has it’s own SSH server – from Microsoft, no less.)
51:00 GR: “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson. (Why wasn’t I targeted?)
BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion
54:34 LN: How Do I Turn Off BitLocker on a Drive? Surprise encryption!
56:10 GR: How To Troubleshoot iPhone Auto-Correct Problems
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