One day they just signed off.
Where will I get my Mac Security information?
Argh!
What happened? Did @intego pull their funding? Argh!
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RANT: What happened to Intego Mac Podcast?
Sunday, May 11, 2025
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TECHNOLOGY: Free dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) from the internet and public ibraries
Wednesday, November 20, 2024# – # – # – # – #
While I don’t miss the traffic on Route 287 when I was working, I do miss having two or three or more hours listening to my self-improvement cassettes. (Imagine how less “wonderful” I’d be if I hadn’t “improved” with all those great suggestions. Laugh!).
If podcasts were available then, I could have saved a lot of money on cassettes.
I remember often griping about having to buy the same content to “upgrade” from cassette to cd. Especially if the tape broke or tangled. Why did I have to pay to replace it? Argh!
And, today, audio content is available free from the local library via Libby or other open sources.
Anyway, here’s an “interesting” list of things that might be worth listening to. Now, if I just had a long commute, treks from Fairfax VA to the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee, or drives to and from Keene NH and NJ, I could “improve” even more — if such was possible.
(Not too much ego? Right!)
As always YMMV and FWIW,
Crazy Old Ferd
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TECHNOLOGY: Podcast will disappear behind paywalls
Friday, May 21, 2021https://theconversation.com/apple-threatens-to-upend-podcastings-free-open-architecture-160318
The Conversation – Articles (US)
Apple threatens to upend podcasting’s free, open architecture
by John Sullivan, Professor of Media and Communication, Muhlenberg College
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A medium that exploded due to the lack of institutional gatekeepers is now seeing big tech companies act like traditional media networks, signing popular hosts and shows to exclusive contracts. Of course, other publishers like Slate and Stitcher have offered subscriptions to their shows via their own websites and mobile apps. But the m
uch larger audience share of Apple Podcasts and Spotify has much greater potential to move the podcast ecosystem in the direction of premium paid content.
This presents a potential long-term threat to the free, open architecture of podcasting, though projects like The Podcast Index are aiming to preserve the medium as platform-agnostic.
One thing is for certain: Apple and Spotify have given us a glimpse of a podcasting future where the walled gardens of platform-exclusive, premium content become the norm.
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The Podcast Index are aiming to preserve the medium as platform-agnostic.
Guess that’s all that can save us from paywalls and the Apple Tax?
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