Toots for js@podcastindex.social account

Written by John Spurlock on 2025-02-04 at 00:24

hey @dave can you do me a huge favor and re-poll all of the omny studio feeds in the index?

select count(*) from podcasts

where newestEnclosureUrl like '%traffic.omny.fm%' or host like '%omny%'

... in the latest .db gives me around 20k feeds

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-02-03 at 23:20

New data: Top CDNs used by the 1.5 million new podcast episodes in January 2025

new all-time high for #1 Amazon Cloudfront, and a new milestone: it now hosts twice as many new podcast episodes as the entire rest of the internet combined

https://livewire.io/podcast-cdns-by-episode-share/

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-02-03 at 17:01

New data! updated my ranking of the top 3rd-party podcast analytics services, based on the share of the 1.5 million new eps published in January 2025

new all-time high shares for Podscribe and OP3

https://livewire.io/podcast-trackers-by-episode-share/

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-02-03 at 16:30

New data! My ranking of top podcast hosting companies based on the 1.5 million new episodes in January 2025

new all time high shares for rss.com and Simplecast

corrected Nov/Dec numbers for #3 Buzzsprout

https://livewire.io/podcast-hosts-by-episode-share/

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-02-02 at 16:47

‘The Ledger’s demise also leaves New Jersey with what researchers say is the distinction of being only the second state in the country to have its primary paper move completely online’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/nyregion/new-jersey-star-ledger-prints-final-edition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t04.uxnZ.4y5RN3-kIgP3&smid=url-share

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-02-01 at 21:04

‘socrates didn't whiteboard’

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-02-01 at 19:43

Just added a few new podcast user agents (apps/browsers/bots) to the open opawg/user-agents-v2 database, found thanks to a generous data contribution from a large podcast hosting company

Everyone can benefit from using these in their backend systems

https://github.com/opawg/user-agents-v2/commit/3713e353cbee25e383f21e716eba5516856eddb8

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-02-01 at 15:26

Buzzsprout just posted their self-reported monthly stats from January, so I just updated my page charting them over time

#2 Apple Podcasts closing the gap on #1 Spotify...

https://livewire.io/buzzsprout-stats-visualized/

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-01-31 at 19:44

‘would you watch a guy reading an audiobook?’

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-01-31 at 14:08

‘For Super Bowl 2025, Google is taking a different approach to ads. Each of the 50 states will see a different Super Bowl commercial promoting a local small business or nonprofit that uses “Google Workspace with Gemini.”’

https://9to5google.com/2025/01/30/google-workspace-gemini-super-bowl-2025/

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-01-31 at 13:49

so it's friday: what is the new apple podcasts thing?

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-01-30 at 13:48

‘As media consumption habits evolve, these insights reaffirm the enduring relevance of newspapers while highlighting the increasing role of podcasts in reaching an influential, information-hungry audience’

https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/new-data-from-the-media-audit,254021

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-01-29 at 22:32

loving the fierce competition in js runtimes: deno just implemented the built-in sqlite recently added by node - which was, in turn, inspired by bun

https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/27308

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-01-28 at 23:31

I may finally succumb to the apple music subscription

apple music lossless on my new setup (macbook -> usb-c to spdif adapter -> optical in on 13-yr old marantz receiver -> bose 5.1 room speakers) is sounding pretty great with no fiddling

and convenient access to a huge lossless catalog

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-01-28 at 23:10

setting aside some time to check out the 2024 underworld album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkvkHUEgP4

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Written by John Spurlock on 2025-01-28 at 22:58

‘It is unfortunate these features feel almost undesigned — like engineers were responsible for building them, and then someone with human interface knowledge was brought in to add some design’

https://pxlnv.com/blog/undesign-of-apple-intelligence-features/

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