About this Episode

Jason recounts his lifelong audio adventure, starting from his earliest days as a self-proclaimed nerdy kid through to his role as co-host of Hemispheric Views.

Podcast case study: Hemispheric Views (producer)

Find Jason at grepjason.sh.

Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.

Links and Show Notes

Listen Whenever You Want 00:00:00

• TechTV
• Windows Registry
• The Tech Guy
• Leo Laporte
• RSS
• Window management
• Windows 98
• AOL
• Digital video recorder (DVR)
• Jeopardy!
• 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
• Google Podcasts
• Apple Podcasts

When Podcasts Became Podcasts 00:09:49

• Time shifting
• MP3
• iPod
• Apple 30-pin dock connector
• The history of the word ‘Podcast’
• CD player
• Cassette player
• Walkman
• Digital rights management (DRM)
• iPod Video
• Computer Shopper (US magazine)
• Consumer Technology Association (CES)

Connecting with Hosts 00:16:43

• ‘How it feels to listen to podcasts’ meme
• NPR
• YouTube

Becoming a Producer 00:22:41

• Search engine optimisation
• Discord
• iMessage
• Andrew Canion
• Hemispheric Views
• 000: International Mac Nerds — ‘Episode 00’, which was originally episode 39 of the Lounge Ruminator podcast
• Micro.blog
• YouTube Creator Awards — aka ‘plaques from Google’
• Patreon
• One Prime Plus — Patreon site for Hemispheric Views

Changes and Show Notes 00:40:33

• Software widget
• Social bookmarking — aka ‘read-it-later’ services
• What are podcast show notes and why do you need them?
  • Here's a hint: these very show notes are influenced by the excellent format that Jason brought to Hemispheric Views.
• Easter egg (media)

The Future of the Medium 00:50:55

• Cross-platform software — linked to the use of the term ‘platform-agnostic’
• Amazon Kindle
• Spotify
• General top-level domain — redirected from ‘domain extension’, linked to the use of the hypothetical names ’.spo’ and ‘.amz’

Why Do We Do This? 00:59:54

• ‘Big leather couch’ = the stereotype of people lying down on such furniture while attending therapy or psychological appointments
• Persona
• Whippersnipper

Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio

Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion

Contact

• Website: rsspod.net
• Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
• Mastodon: social.lol@martinfeld
• Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld