PodNews Weekly Episode One

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Special Guests:

• Adam Curry (Podfather) & Dave Jones (Podsage) talk about: 
  • How the podcast namespace started?
  • Why it will never be called Podcast 3.0?
  • Why Value4Value has already jumped the ‘Chasm of Adoption’?
  • What new tags are Adam/Dave most excited about in Phase 6 of the namespace?

Show Notes & Links:

• Goodbye to Evo Terra's Podcast Pontifications and hello to The End
• Buzzsprout has become the first major podcast host to remove email addresses from RSS feeds. 
• The podcast:txt tag in the new podcast namespace has been formalised. 
• Amazon has made big changes to Amazon Music Prime, including ad-free podcasts.
• Buzzsprout’s platform stats for September give Amazon Music a 0.7% market share of all podcast downloads
• Amazon has “fired half of its Amp live radio division”
• Elon Musk @elonmusk "Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month."
• @jack's new alternative to existing social networks like Twitter. https://bsky.app
• Detail is a new tool built for quickly shooting multi-camera video.
• Adobe Express Podcast
• Descript is raising tens of millions of dollars at a $550M valuation. But I think the biggest news is that @OpenAI is leading the round.
• Castos has built Dynamo, a free tool to

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