• rss.chat (Github repo)
• My post on noticing rss.chat in Dave Winer blogroll
• My Status Tool (repo)(my instance)
• First Follower story (video, Derek Sivers post)
• Outliner repo (tease!)

Links to topics in the podcast:

• Jim McGovern/X
• Elissa Slotkin/X
• Datasette
• Federated Wiki
• OpenElections
• SistersInLaw
• 500Songs.com

I then updated all the posts I have with podcast files to be “Audio”, and created a new category (“In The Car Podcast”), and added that to all the posts. I then was able to create a feed (https://andysylvester.com/category/in-the-car-podcast/feed/), and was able to load that feed in PocketCasts – hooray!

I recorded this on 11/23/2024, so I am using that in the title, even though I am posting it 2 days later. Coves the election, what to do next, and what technical projects I think I will work on next.

Links referenced in the podcast:

Emptywheel: What next?

Emptywheel: Lessons from Red States on How to Push Back

Oregon Public Broadcasting: Responding to residents proved foundational in Gluesenkamp Perez victory as district picked Trump

CNN: Gallego offers advice to Democrats after winning in state Trump won

The East Is A Podcast: I was referencing this episode

Datasette: Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompanying API.

Federated Wiki: Main Github repo

A 12-13 minute rambler, here are links to sites mentioned:

Portland Protest News

Making Your Own Media

KamalaCampaignTimeline.com (not live yet)

Molly White

Eleventy

Web3 Is Going Great

RTOWatch.com

Molly’s timeline site template

Steve Tockey/Construx Software

How To Engineer Software

Newer model-based development project for Javascript

Older model-based development project for Javascript

Eric Elliott on AI-assisted development

Sudolang

My prompt experiments

James Shore TDD Intro

Recently, I finished listening to an episode of the On The Media podcast, which had two stories about podcasting. The first story was something of an origin story, and was glad that Dave Winer and Adam Curry got a mention. It was interesting that Kevin Marks was a featured interviewee, as a person who created a script to copy podcasts to iPods back in the early 2000s. I have not thought of Kevin as someone who was a primary or secondary player in the development of podcasting, so it was curious how he made it into this segment. The show focused on the impact Apple has had on podcasting, with the main feature being that Apple maintains a directory of podcasts based on submissions from podcast producers. This is it? This is how Apple controls podcasting? The producers left out how there is another podcast directory maintained by Adam Curry and his group PodcastIndex.org. The producers also seemed to forget that there are some little things called…wait for it… search engines…I think one of them is called Google…The second story was about the business of podcasting, reviewing the ups and downs of the “podcasting industry” since 2014, and the cost of producing “prestige podcasts” (I had never heard that before!) or long-form journalism podcasts as opposed to “talk show” podcasts or other interview podcasts requiring much less resources to produce. I am sorry to have to bring this up – but – WHO CARES? Do people write stories about production company problems for television networks or streaming services? Do people get upset that Disney+ has not made a profit? Why do people think that the podcasting industry is a “darling” that should be mourned over or lamented about economic downturns? Get a life, people! If an organization is spending more money than it brings in income, they either figure out ways to increase revenue or cut expenses, or say goodbye! The technical term, I believe is called “business”. Whether it is a publicly funded organization (NPR, WNYC) or commercial companies (Spotify, Gimlet Media, iHeart), the business aspects are the same. Let’s get out there and compete people! Come on!

Keith Olbermann taking over this post…

Whew…what happened? Hmm, looks like someone named Keith left me a podcast….wonder what it sounds like?

Link to Internet Archive version of show notes

The tune is “The Christmas Song” by Robert Wells and Mel Torme, new lyrics are as shown below:

The Impeachment Song

Donald Trump wanted to inflict some pain

On Joe Biden, yes, his biggest foe

A perfect phone call with the head of Ukraine

And a chance to make a quid pro quo

Everybody knew they had to start the coverup

Hide the transcript as quickly as they could

But then a whistleblower stood and spoke up

That Trump did not act like he should

The House began to join the fray

By calling witnesses who had a lot to say

And after several weeks, they found the truth

That everyone was in the loop

And so our country had a choice to make

To figure out what we had to do

For Donald Trump, after solemn debate

It’s impeachment for you

References:

• Micro.blog
• Episode 2 of In The Car podcast
• Wither The History of Podcasting – my thoughts on a podcast discussing the history of podcasting