A special edition of Office Hours gets into the wild future of Podcasting, and Moritz from Alby joins us.

Music by: The Top Hats Orchestra - Boost them in the show.

Wes visits the office to chat about some new Podcasting tech inbound, Google killing their Podcast app, and Chris' story from his morning with Podfans.

We're testing a new Podcasting 2.0 feature and need your ears!

Behind-the-scenes details of a new show in the works, our thoughts on a new genre of Podcasts bursting onto the scene, and we make JB history live on the show.

Chris and Brent are running with scissors and breaking things again. From the website to YouTube, how we broke just about everything this week.

A quick Pocket Office from "the field" on the new tech inbound to Office Hours and a big update on our bounty for episode 34!

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• IPFS Podcasting | Umbrel App Store — Turn your Umbrel into an IPFS node for self-hosting, crowd-hosting, and archiving of your favorite podcasts to the IPFS network.
• IPFS Podcast Prefix | IPFS Podcasting — You can configure your feed to load episodes from IPFS using a podcast prefix in your enclosure url.
• Run a Node | IPFS Podcasting — If you have a mini-PC (i.e. Raspberry Pi), an old computer, or an advanced server, you can run a node to host podcast episodes.

Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire.

Plus, an update on our new bounty release format!

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We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.

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• Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go.
• Office Hours on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Podcast Index website. Just top off Alby first, then head over to the Index!
• Try out a new Podcast app — Try out a Podcast 2.0 compatible app, and get more features as we roll them out!
• Berlin with Brent - Meetup — Brent loved his time in Berlin so much, he's going back for more!
• Berlin Buds Matrix
• Adopting Bitcoin 2023 — The Crowne Plaza is in the heart of the country’s financial district, just over half a kilometer from the San Salvador Cathedral and an hour away from Bitcoin Mecca - El Zonte.
• Podcast Listeners Say AI is Poised to Redefine the Medium, Acast Study Finds — Podcast listeners are also supportive of how AI will potentially improve the overall accessibility and discoverability of the medium. In fact, 79% support the use of speech recognition to automatically transcribe podcast episodes to make them searchable and accessible. Another 78% of respondents said they support the use of AI to generate captions in real time in order to make episodes more accessible to deaf audiences. Additionally, 74% said they support the use of AI to suggest specific podcast episodes highly relevant to a topic being discussed in the podcast being listened to and 72% support AI helping them to better discover relevant podcasts.
• Transcribe.fm — Lightning-fast transcripts for your podcast
• What Are Podcasting 2.0 Transcripts? — Transcripts are no silver bullet, but they certainly make your podcast easier to discover, search, share and repurpose in different content formats.
• Bitcoin Hits New 2023 High as BlackRock Refiles Spot Bitcoin ETF Application — Monday’s move in the Bitcoin price comes as financial giant BlackRock re-filed its spot Bitcoin ETF application. As per the details, BlackRock submitted the application to the US SEC through Nasdaq while naming Coinbase Global Inc. as the market to provide surveillance for the proposed ETF.
• TWiT.tv Selects Libsyn’s AdvertiseCast as Podcast Advertising Partner to Drive Monetization and Audience Growth — Lisa Laporte, CEO of TWiT.tv, remarked, "We're impressed with Libsyn AdvertiseCast's premium host-read expertise and programmatic advertising capabilities. Throughout our pilot phase, they've consistently demonstrated a higher fill rate.
• Podcasting could be in for a rocky 2023 — The ad market is soft, layoffs will likely continue, but the industry should (hopefully) be alright.
• Podcast Dealmaking Gets More Selective In Slower Ad Market

We share some recent adventures, and the tale of how water got dumped into Chris' new home server.

Note: this episode was recorded on the 15th of June.

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We travel 10 years into the future and report back on how podcasts and Jupiter Broadcasting are doing after all those years.

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• Spotify Developing AI Ads Using Podcast Hosts' Voices — He said that the streaming service is working on technology for AI-generated ads.
• Dave Jones Taking Count! — I’m really thinking it’s time to stop ingesting Anchor feeds automatically and only accept them into the index if they are tied to an iTunes ID or manually submitted.
• Podverse | F-Droid — Podcast app with clips, video, livestreams, playlists, profiles, and cross-platf
• Podverse - on Google Play
• Podverse.fm
• Franco (Castamatic) on Podcast Index Social — Castamatic 8.7.0 with the new Alby integration is available now on the AppStore.
• Oak - Scheduled Boosts — Scheduled LN Payments (demo) - Stream sats from your own node. Setup a schedule to support your favorite content creators. All they need is a Lightning Address, and they keep 100% of what you send them.