Spotify launches audiobooks globally. Anchor is still alive but Libsyn Studio is dead.

Audiobooks are now available on Spotify in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. They'd launched in the US in September

Spotify Updates Notifications

Spotify’s Anchor has added “audio enhancement” to its app

Spotify has signed another exclusive: Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain

Spotify announced the expansion of NextGen

Dan Misener at Bumper has looked at the new topics that Apple Podcasts and
he’s produced a number of network maps, designed to show links between different shows; and produced episode topic maps for every category in Apple Podcasts

Libsyn has closed its free podcast hosting platform, Libsyn Studio

Zeitpedia is using Generative AI voices to produce audio news digests. Here’s an AI-generated podcast called World Cup 2022 News Now

Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) said “Come to @tumblr, we're adding activitypub for interconnect"

Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! If you add .rss to the end of someone’s account page - then you get an RSS feed.

Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followers. https://fedifinder.glitch.me

Leo Laporte is to retire from radio.