🎙️ Podcasts
Rob Long is such a good story teller. Here he connects an outbreak of an ‘epidemic of vomit hurling’ in a kid’s school, making three bean salad at scale, the writers strike and the challenges for the broader entertainment industry - in just ten minutes.
🎛️🎙️ Bitcoin is Still The Future of Payments
🔗 Calling It Now: Elon Musk’s Micropayments Gambit Will Flop Big Time
Though Musk and Twitter aren’t specifically called out, it is clear that Lightspark’s David Marcus agrees - mainly because Micropayments can’t work while we continue to organize our payments as we do.
You should really listen to the whole thing, but this snippet particularly pertains to the MicroPayment comment above.
🎛️🎙️ Whats good for the Goose is good for the Gander
13 seconds that neatly encapsulates the People First challenge. Maybe AI will finally push open the flood gates
The Full Podcast:
🎛️🎙️ Kafka and Lessin
Experimenting with clipping out of Overcast. (Side note - Jessica Lessin is the founder and Editor In Chief of ‘The Information’.)
The Full Podcast:
🎛️🎙️ Micropayments. Have their time finally come?
I don’t know - and I sure can’t tell from this podcast - but David Marcus sounds confident.
A 15 second snippet, courtesy of Overcast …
The Full Podcast:
🎙️ Bitcoin is still the future of payments, says Lightspark CEO David Marcus
🎙️ Turns Out I Don't Need Snipd Afterall ...
I have had three actions in ‘Things’ now for weeks. They were there to remind me to post a snippet from three podcasts that I wanted to share. The actual snipping and posting is not that hard - so why did I need to set a reminder?
BECAUSE
I use Overcast to listen to Podcasts and I had no intention of moving my listening experience over to Snipd. Earlier in the year I had been playing with Snipd. and even posted a couple … 🔗 here and 🔗 here, but the friction on the adhoc process in the workflow - not so easy.
Snipd is a good app for extracting a slice and posting. BUT I listen to Podcasts in Overcast, so when I wanted to snip something, I had to;
- make a mental note of where in the podcast I was
- go to Snipd
- find the podcast
- find the episode
- get to the part I want to snip …
… and only then could I start the process.
Clumsy - at best - and lots of friction - so I just made a note in Things - which you now know I never got round to!
I might be blind, ignorant or stupid - but tonight I discovered that Overcast offers very similar (identical?) functionality. Is that new? Am I really that slow?
Anyway, just tried out the Overcast mechanism - and very nice, sitting right there in front of me.
Snipd account deleted.
🎙️The Japanese Toilet Paradigm is this week’s podcast from Rob Long. He’s always good, this week talking a little about renaming HBOMax to Max. He clearly didn’t think it a good idea.
He then moved on to offer advice to NBC should they be thinking about doing something similar.
I paraphrase …
It didn’t work for HBOMax - it definitely won’t work for Peacock.
🎙️Not yet finished the whole episode - but just stopping by to share this podcast link
Nilay Patel talking Eugen Rochko.
Interesting stuff. Maybe I listen to the wrong streams, but I have not heard Eugen talk before. He does seem to be someone who keeps his head down and focussed.
Gives me lots of confidence in Mastodon - not that I needed it.
I listened to a very funny Podcast from Rob Long a few days ago. The main thrust being - well - listen for yourself. I was talking to someone about it - and wanted to send a link - so did a search and found what I thought was the link - but it was only 4 minutes long. Rob does short, but that seemed very short.
Turns out I had found the story originally published in 🎙️2007 - the show I was looking for was the one published in 🎙️2023. This new version starts with the same story and then moves on to how to fix the problems in the entertainment business - which actually - as ever with Martini Shot - you can extrapolate to other industries.
If I do it - it will be 3 hours and 20 minutes of my life that I won’t get back - but then …. it is 🎵 The Velvet Underground - and the information the guy delivers is always interesting and not the usual average ‘fodder facts’.
Just finished listening to another @martinfeld ‘RSS’ podcast - this one with @jsnell@zeppelin.flights nicely done - and prompts a question for Martin.
I seem to recall that the idea of the podcast was originally centered on research. I have only listened to a few - but there is a flow of advice across the ones I have heard that all support each other.
Q1: Any surprises from the people you have talked to - as in thoughts that are unique, or made you sit up and utter ‘whaaaaa’?
Q2: Are you going to publish your conclusions anywhere, anytime that we can read and/or listen to?
🎙️Lockhead talking about the Monster Category Battle of Microsoft vs Google - except it isn’t.
Google’s category is ‘search’. Microsoft’s is ‘answers’. Very different.
Is he right?
🎛️🎙️ Embrace The Future
The excerpt is not the main thrust of the podcast, but neatly summarizes the problem of rejecting, rather than embracing, what is clearly something that is part of the future.
The Full Podcast: 🎙️ Why The Future Belongs To Intellectual Capitalists
New Zealand | Unrecognized Leadership
If the UK and/or the USA could find more leaders that demonstrate the qualities of Jacinda Arden, wouldn’t both surely be better off for it?
Sadly, she’s had her run, the voters are not going her way hence her resignation. ‘Hitch’ is being allowed to reset the agenda and so far at least, seems to be turning the ‘anti-Labour’ tide. Make no mistake though, yes, she took some wrong turns but the problems being laid at her feet won’t go away with new leaders. It’s a global problem … and despite New Zealand managing to punch well above their international weight over the last few years … these global issues are exactly that … global.
🔗 Colbert pays tribute to Jacinda
🎙️ What was behind Jacinda-mania and why did it end so suddenly?
🔗 Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World is a new book by Malcolm Harris.
He talks about it on this podcast 🎙️The Dark History Of Silicon Valley with Sean Illing.
Oh my!
🎛️🎙️ English Progressive Redux
🔗 Andrew Hickey’s ‘500 Songs’ includes a good and interesting summary of why the UK and US musicians who ‘arrived’ in the 60s sounded so different, emerging, he argues, from significant social differences and country histories.
What do you think?
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🎵 More thoughts on what I call English Progressive
The Full Podcast: 🎙️ 500 Songs - ‘See Emily Play’ by The Pink Floyd
🎛️🎙️ That ‘Content’ word again.
You might have read my 🔗 many posts about ‘content’ .. and my singular objection to that word. Turns out I am not the only one. Will Arnett waxes lyrical about that exact issue on Smartless.
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The Full Podcast: 🎙️ Smartless : Dana Carvey
An 'Unknown' Podcaster - He Sounds Boring - He Is Fascinating
🎵 Despite my initial resistance to the 500 song podcast narrated by 🔗 Andrew Hickey .. I am now moving into my third … first ‘The Monkees’, then ‘Love’, now ‘The Move’. The depth of information flying through the speakers is really quite incredible - thoroughly researched, packed with information - some of which I know - a lot I don’t.
A particular speciality of his is identifying groups that todays’ mega stars played with in the very early days. Examples like when Albert Lee played with Hendrix and Jim Morrison wishing he and The Doors were as good as Love. Or how Graeme Edge and John Bonham both played in the same band - sorry, cant recall who replaced who … and and and … fascinating - and NOT information that is on ‘the wiki’.
So - I did some prodding around to work out who Hickey is - assuming he must have been a music journalist at some point - but no. At least not that I could find. He seems to be a relatively ‘unknown’ creator who writes books and does podcasts.
Interesting that in the search, I came across this review of his podcast : Pismotality: A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs that has one comment - from Andrew Hickey. He spends a little time talking about his accent and deadpan delivery … something I referenced in my first post on him, and it turns out there is a reason.
Anyway - suffice to say - if you love rock and related music genre and want to learn more - particularly about the genesis of the ‘names’ - highly recommend.
🎵 Over on Scripting.com @dave mentioned that back in the day he was a fan of The Monkees. Unashamedly - so was I. He linked to this show. It’s long. The narrator (that’s what he sounds like) - has a boring voice - but still an interesting listen.
Never heard of the 🎙️podcast - so had a look at other episodes. Just as long - and I suspect that the voice will be just as boring - BUT - some really interesting deep dives into some good songs and bands. I will be listening to this one - the band ‘Love’.
🎙️Martini Shot: Digital Absolution
It’s hard for Rob Long to go wrong in 10 minutes. He doesn’t.
Theme? Reorganizing life - like we all do!
This
“One of my Things actions is to add a new project to OmniFocus”
clearly reveals problems that I and many others have!