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Re: Podcasting is getting huge

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Post by bane »

jacquesm wrote: post #17

I've tried consuming podcasts on a number of occasions. I've utterly failed at finding a way to appreciate them, even on subjects that interest me. Reading faster than people speak is a factor (much faster) and being able to skim and dive in where I'm interested, ability to bookmark, to cut-and-paste bits for my notes files and so on. Besides reading is a lot easier for me to stay concentrated on the content rather t…

If you have a long commute, car/bike/train/etc. they're basically perfect audio companions. I couldn't figure out what to do with them either until I decided to stop listening to the news on a daily basis during my commute (it made me too aggravated).

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Post by lewispb »

jacquesm wrote: post #17

I've tried consuming podcasts on a number of occasions. I've utterly failed at finding a way to appreciate them, even on subjects that interest me. Reading faster than people speak is a factor (much faster) and being able to skim and dive in where I'm interested, ability to bookmark, to cut-and-paste bits for my notes files and so on. Besides reading is a lot easier for me to stay concentrated on the content rather t…

If you use the Apple Podcast app you can listen on 1.5x or 2x speed which is useful.

Re: Podcasting is getting huge

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Post by bane »

JamesBaxter wrote: post #7

I understand that a huge percentage of podcast listeners are based in the US but the number of hours I've spent listening to completely irrelevant adverts is insane. Surely someone can make a service that takes a podcast feed and packages it with different adverts for different markets and then creates new feeds. I'd make it but the scaling sales end is not something I know how to do. I suppose it depends how Apple i…

Out of curiosity, what podcasts do you listen to that have ads? I listen to a couple hours of podcasts every day for a couple years now and have never heard one (beyond the podcast itself asking for patreon support).

Re: Podcasting is getting huge

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Post by lewispb »

iagooar wrote: post #8

Sorry for the shameless plug: A friend and I have launched a podcast publishing platform, batteries included, called Podigee ( https://www.podigee.com ). The backend runs on Rails + PostgreSQL, the frontend is a mix of Rails and AngularJS. Also, we run dedicated download / stream servers with some nice Lua scripts for caching the files and reducing overall costs for AWS S3 traffic. The nicest feature is that once you…

If we're on the subject of plugs, I wrote Podcast Chart (https://www.podcastchart.com)

Again in Rails, all running on AWS.

Re: Podcasting is getting huge

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Post by forgetsusername »

jacquesm wrote: post #17

I've tried consuming podcasts on a number of occasions. I've utterly failed at finding a way to appreciate them, even on subjects that interest me. Reading faster than people speak is a factor (much faster) and being able to skim and dive in where I'm interested, ability to bookmark, to cut-and-paste bits for my notes files and so on. Besides reading is a lot easier for me to stay concentrated on the content rather t…

>Besides reading is a lot easier for me

Why do you view it as an alternative to reading, rather than a compliment?

Re: Podcasting is getting huge

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Post by arcatek »

forgetsusername wrote: post #26
jacquesm wrote: post #17

I've tried consuming podcasts on a number of occasions. I've utterly failed at finding a way to appreciate them, even on subjects that interest me. Reading faster than people speak is a factor (much faster) and being able to skim and dive in where I'm interested, ability to bookmark, to cut-and-paste bits for my notes files and so on. Besides reading is a lot easier for me to stay concentrated on the content rather t…

> Besides reading is a lot easier for me Why do you view it as an alternative to reading, rather than a compliment?

In what mesure does a podcast compliment a proper article? As far as I see, the only thing that could be missing would be the interactivity (being able to ask question about the parts of the article that we haven't understood and that we would like to clarify), but podcasts don't solve this.

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Post by jsmeaton »

arethuza wrote: post #16

I used to have a serious podcast habit - one of which used to run adverts for Audible. Now I listen to audiobooks and hardly ever listen to podcasts and never listen to the podcast where I learned about Audible.

Rogan? So many ads for Audible.

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Post by [deleted] »

jacquesm wrote: post #17

I've tried consuming podcasts on a number of occasions. I've utterly failed at finding a way to appreciate them, even on subjects that interest me. Reading faster than people speak is a factor (much faster) and being able to skim and dive in where I'm interested, ability to bookmark, to cut-and-paste bits for my notes files and so on. Besides reading is a lot easier for me to stay concentrated on the content rather t…

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Re: Podcasting is getting huge

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Post by avar »

arcatek wrote: post #27
forgetsusername wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Besides reading is a lot easier for me Why do you view it as an alternative to reading, rather than a compliment?

In what mesure does a podcast compliment a proper article? As far as I see, the only thing that could be missing would be the interactivity (being able to ask question about the parts of the article that we haven't understood and that we would like to clarify), but podcasts don't solve this.

You can't read while you're driving, doing the dishes etc. There's many times when your mind isn't all that busy but your hands or eyes are. Podcasts are great for that.

I also find them much better for interviews and the like than text, you get a lot of information out of the tone people use, which is lost when it's committed to text.

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