Whenever I, as a podcast professional, hear a client start talking about newsletters, I feel like rushing out and lighting the beacons of Gondor; calling to other podcasters, far and wide, to rally together to refute the evil shadow of newsletters. Newsletters have been around since the days when cuneiform…

This blog first appeared on the Future Proof newsletter, so is reproduced here thanks to the generous people who pay to subscribe to that newsletter. Give them a big thumbs up! What are the trends and currents of the global digital news market today? That’s a question that is almost…

Some names have been changed and identities obscured in order to protect the privacy of participants in this story. The rest is told with a total commitment to journalistic accuracy. Readers of my blogs and newsletter will know that I am but a humble servant of pod. I make my…

I’m a fan of Kara Swisher, the host of the New York Time’s Sway podcast (about tech and leadership and futurology), who has a rather no-nonsense approach to the way the digital media landscape is shaping up. In a way, she’s sort-of the anti-Joe Rogan in this area: where he…

If you’re UK-based and your antenna is tuned to the goings on of Westminster politics, you’ll know Guido Fawkes. It’s a conservative (read: right-wing) gossip site, which very seldom publishes anything that would be of interest to polite society. But, at the moment, there is a grappling within the heart…

What is the minimum adequate recording quality? This is a question that has buzzed around the audio industry since the start of the covid pandemic, like a housefly trapped by the inscrutable magic of transparent glass. Back in the days when we were all sitting in studios, recording on $1000…

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Like any physical object moving through space, I am a sucker for inertia. Every day, I basically stagger through several hours of work, stagger through several hours of life, and then stagger into bed. The next morning I get up and repeat the process. …