Steamboat captain. Podcaster at 5by5.tv. Founder of fireside.fm. Bristly yet lovable tech-curmudgeon. There are still a few Mac mini's left (those not marked as Sold). I'll be announcing the URL tomorrow on @b2wshow so if you're interested, now's the time.
danbenjamin.com/forsale/ The @rodemics Podmic looks really nice. Alas I won't be able to review one for you on my new podcaster's YouTube channel, because Rode has deemed me unworthy.
Meantime, here's the website for the Podmic:
rode.com/podmic About 20 years ago I started a company building FreeBSD servers and workstations. We did a modest income, and eventually became a BeOS workstation VAR. The Mac minis are selling faster than I expected. Two sold, several waiting to hear back. Still a handful left.
danbenjamin.com/forsale/ RT @TexasNORML: We are so grateful to all the #Texans who crafted thoughtful written testimony and allowed us to submit them to the HHS Com… That's likely half of her life. I'm going on 37 years using Apple products, and I'm not ditching Apple for good any time soon either. twitter.com/Mike_Wuerthele… I'm a little disappointed nobody has found the latest @hotdogsladies Easter egg in this week's @b2wshow art. Anyone know how you're supposed to download an older copy of Mac OS X? @apple's own instructions do not work (at least not on Mojave).
support.apple.com/en-us/HT206886 Last night I showed my daughter a “Miss Booksy” video on YouTube and ugh this morning’s recommendations 😞 I’m still searching for a small #linux notebook. Any recommendations?
So far, suggestions have been “Get a $2k laptop from Dell/HP”, “just get a Chromebook”, and “just use Windows Subsystem for Linux” however I think y’all can do better. .. yet BSD is what provided the foundation for Apple's move to Intel and macOS, and really iOS and tvOS.
Are more people are using BSD than Linux ... without realizing it? I started using Linux w/Slackware in '93 while deploying FreeBSD servers for my hosting company the same year. Linux felt like shaky beta software while FreeBSD was stable, reliable, solid.
Now, everything is linux and I never hear about *BSD. RT @kozlow: @danbenjamin The most apt name for a thing I've seen in tech for a while. I think I want wizard hair. Hello Friends! Who is building on Ruby and/or Elixir at work in Austin? Thanks! Well, @firesidefm is all Rails and some Sinatra. RT @dzohrob: @ashleyrcarman @smock @WonderY @voxmediapods Second, we're announcing our $1.5m seed round from amazing investors who see the… PSA: It’s “first come, first served” not “serve”. This is because the first person will be the first one “served”. This isn’t difficult. Fellow Linux nerds: What's the most affordable (but still good) super portable linux-compatible laptop? Twitter friends: is it possible to watch HBO Now on a Mac if we've signed up through iTunes Store subscriptions (via iOS or tvOS)? Been trying out the latest @firefox and it’s great. Fast, stable, compliant, built in security and privacy.
I’m curious why more people don’t use it. Why don’t you? Podcasters want to make money (damnit!) and they want to make the money RIGHT NOW, regardless of the long term effects. Sort of like burning CFCs or nuclear bomb tests. twitter.com/drylight/statu… RT @ashleyrcarman: 🚨 big podcast news today 🚨 a new company — podfund — is launching and says it's going to start investing up to $50K in i… RT @THErealDVORAK: Yet another "analysis" of podcasting latching on to old bromides and trends long proven to be dead-ends insofar as profi… “What happened last week is that a well-funded startup attempted to disrupt the podcasting world, and the podcasting world did not appreciate it.”
forbes.com/sites/billrose… Just heard Buzzfeed is working on an article entitled “Cast of Avengers: Endgame - where are the NOW???” RT @SplatoonNews: @Xbox Splatoon RT @zoocat: @danbenjamin Addendum: if you can’t get a 5+ year podcaster on-board when you tell them what you’re doing, maybe rethink what y… Pro tip for #podcasting related startups: have at least one person in leadership who has been a podcaster for more than five years, who will understand what podcasters need and what listeners want.
Podcasting isn’t about ads or monetization, even though you really want it to be. Hey @apogeedigital, we sent you a request to review some of your gear for my YouTube channel dedicated to teaching podcasters, but haven't heard back. Is there a better way to reach you? Hey @rodemics We reached out to you two weeks ago via email to request a mic for a review on my new YouTube channel for podcasters, but have never heard back. Is there a better way to contact you? Every few months I try out code editors like Sublime Text 3 and Atom and others, and always wind up returning to TextMate over and over again. I'm not sure if this is just me being a dinosaur, or TextMate being "better", or what.
What am I missing out on? We are safely ensconced in our new office. Injuries: minimal.
Bonus: I am no longer embarrassed to show people where I work.
Tours begin at 2pm. End at 2:01pm. RT @jsbilsbrough: @danbenjamin I’ll help however I can, because this is such a vital area. I want to reward supporters, not make them jump… This is key here … I’m not talking about a “business” I’m talking about an open framework. Thank you Daniel for mentioning this. twitter.com/theDanielJLewi… What we as Podcasters and listeners need most right now is a trustworthy and integrated way to connect listener support with creators.
Unfortunately, it’s not Patreon, or any other existing service, none of which are specialized for Podcasts.
Let’s do it. Who’s with me? RT @reckless: Today marks one year since we launched @VergeScience on YouTube, and it’s now nearly 800,000 subscribers, with 48 million vid… RT @TheElsieEscobar: OMG. When. Will. It. Stop. 😒
Sooooo….how are they monetizing? Hosting and ads?
OH WAIT!!!!! IT’S FREE HOSTING. Aha.… RT @stoneymonster: One that auto-inserts ads no less. Podcasting appears to be fertile ground for half-baked startups right now. https://t.… RT @koleross: @danbenjamin Moreover, when I’m listening to a show, the only other podcasts I want to hear about are shows the hosts like, o… RT @koleross: @danbenjamin All of these carpetbaggers are doing things that will make podcasts worse, all by misunderstanding that the only… RT @hotdogsladies: Today's Back to Work streams live at 11:30am ET.
Talking about the therapeutic benefits of "controlling a small area."… Why is it that none of the Algo's have figured out I have never watched, nor am I interested in GOT? I suspect they intend to convert me. Why watch it when you’ve lived it? If you are a US-based freelance #RubyOnRails developer with experience with #Stripe, I'd like to chat with you. No agencies. Please RT! DMs open. He’s a good man. And thorough.
#got #gameofthrones #biglebowski Special artwork for this week’s @roadworkshow … the one where @johnroderick’s bipolar medicine stops working.
5by5.tv/roadwork/146 One of the reasons I stopped podcasting about tech is that tech is a giant Ouroboros and maybe the more you know about tech the less you want to talk about tech. RT @Vallieres: It worked for us @_rgbafm and only took a few hours. Sent around 9-10AM and by 1PM our show was removed from their site. htt… PSA: Here’s a handy DCMA letter that Luminary must, by law, respond to immediately. It was created by my friend and @firesidefm customer @Vallieres and modified by me:
docs.google.com/document/d/1lv… Luminary’s “Contact Us About Your RSS Feed” page:
“If you would like to remove your podcast from our community of hundreds of thousands of free podcasts[…]”
We have to *ask them* to remove our podcasts from their “community” which we never wanted to join in the first place. If Luminary’s mistakes weren’t so fundamentally smarmy and money-driven, you’d almost feel bad for them.
Imagine coming out of the gates to this kind of reception.
I guess understanding an industry and paying mindful attention to history pays off after all. Gosh, @hearluminary has really messed up and doesn't seem to know when to stop. Removing show notes and donation links, and linking to CDN endpoints to circumvent download tracking, among other offenses, summarized nicely here:
niemanlab.org/2019/04/lumina… RT @not_horsemeat: @danbenjamin I hear their founding team is in full disguise now Why does Luminary now either disguise or completely hide their user agent?
I suspect it’s to make it harder for us to block them. It’s just a theory but I’m running with it. Luminary is a good example of what happens when business and marketing people try to penetrate an industry they are clueless about.
100 million doesn’t guarantee success in this industry. Only a deep understanding of the medium, which must be earned by doing, will do. The worst part: Luminary doesn’t need to re-host *anything*. That’s what podcast hosting companies are for, and the fact that they do it at all and then in such a tone-deaf way illustrates that they haven’t learned any lessons from the backlash against others that have done this. To be clear: this issue is not specific to @firesidefm, this is the primary way podcast downloads are tracked and processed. Yes, because they are linking to the file (on the CDN) that download trackers redirect to *after* they’ve they’ve done their work.
Luminary is circumventing the primary way podcast downloads are tracked. twitter.com/Awax/status/11… FYI: @hearluminary's download mechanism circumvents @firesidefm's tracking, so any downloads from Luminary won't be tracked, counted, analyzed, or reported. RT @Fandango: #AvengersEndgame has dethroned The Force Awakens in opening weekend pre-sales! https://t.co/9RFjGuO48s Poll: If you were building a simple web app today, which of these would you pick (no other answers need be submitted, thanks!): RT @marcoarment: A $100-million-funded company re-hosting hundreds of thousands of podcasts without permission sounds like a fast way to ge… If you’re any good at migrating from #postgresql to #mysql please DM me. I have a project and I could use you’re help. |
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