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- Scott Willsey
Scott discusses his long history of listening to Apple-centric podcasts and what it has been like to co-host and produce his own podcasts. He also asserts the importance of accessibility and the benefits of listening to (and even being part of) a minority, citing lessons from the podcast Parallel and his childhood experience as an American living in Japan. Last, but not least, he asks us all to be more intentional in our media consumption and turns the tables in this very podcast.
This is the final episode of Really Specific Stories to be tied formally to a podcast case study in the PhD project.
Podcast case study: Parallel (listener)
Find Scott at scottwillsey.com.
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Podcast Voice 00:00:00- Hemispheric Views
- Jason Burk
- Andrew Canion
- Mac Geek Gab
- Dave Hamilton
- Pilot Pete
- Adam Christianson
- John F. Braun (former co-host)
- iPod 5th Generation (with Video)
- The iPod Video was the fifth generation of a product line that is now collectively referred to as the iPod Classic.
- MacCast
- Mac (computer)
- Compact disc (CD)
- Daily Source Code was a podcast by Adam Curry, which can now be found in the Internet Archive.
- Podcast Pickle
- Friends with Brews is the podcast that Scott mentions producing with Peter Nikolaidis.
- This Week in Tech (TWiT)
- Grammar Girl
- Mur Lafferty
- GarageBand
- Gaijin
- Audio Gaijin
- Kagoshima
What the Listener Wants to Hear 00:14:35- Apple Inc.
- Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
- The ‘ATP guys’ are Marco Arment, John Siracusa and Casey Liss.
- Vermont
- Boston
This Stuff Does Matter to People 00:23:01- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Mastodon (social network)
- Parallel
- Shelly Brisbin
- Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility
- Imposter syndrome
- Visual impairment (including more precise references to blindness and low vision)
Enjoy the Learning Process 00:30:49- Fear of missing out (FOMO)
Be Intentional 00:37:24- The ‘1x train’ to which Scott refers is the shared preference of many podcast listeners to listen to audio at its original speed, rather than accelerating it or relying on algorithmic features to save time.
- AirPods
- YouTube
Turning the Tables 00:45:05- Micro.blog
- 000: International Mac Nerds is the pilot episode of Hemispheric Views and was originally featured in episode 39 of Lounge Ruminator.
- Andrew Canion’s guest appearance in episode 28 of Lounge Ruminator, which led to discussions of doing a podcast together
- Announcing Hemispheric Views on Feld Notes through Micro.blog
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
48 min - Andrew Leland
Andrew is a writer, audio producer, editor and teacher, who, in this episode, reflects on his love for writing and his lifelong journey with audio. This ranges from his experimentation with tape recorders as a child, through to his experience in college radio and his role as host and producer of the arts-and-culture podcast The Organist, working with KCRW in Los Angeles. Andrew then shares the story of how he came to write his first book, The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, and how that has led him to be featured as a guest in various podcasts.
Podcast case study: Parallel (guest)
Find Andrew at andrewleland.org.
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Left the Lens Cap On 00:00:00- Campus radio
- Internet radio
- The Organist
- KCRW
- Compact disc (CD)
- This American Life
- Camcorder
Conversation and Narrative 00:05:48- Desktop publishing
- Cable television
- Tape recorder
- Joe Frank
- Paraliterature
- Shotgun microphone
Writing 00:14:34- The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (2023) by Andrew Leland
- The New Yorker
- DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch by Andrew Leland
Accessibility Sprinkles 00:20:59- Visual impairment (including more precise references to blindness and low vision)
- Screen reader
- Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility
- Parallel
- Shelly Brisbin
- Find Andrew's guest appearance in #86: An Immigrant in the Country of the Blind.
- Louis Braille
- Hacker
- Braille
- Extended reality (XR) (including more precise references to augmented, mixed and virtual reality)
It Feels Like a Gift 00:29:33- Liminality
- Ryan Knighton
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
34 min - Lynn Fisher
Lynn discusses her background as a designer, CSS developer and illustrator—drawing on her love for technology and her time in art school, where she explored the concept of intermedia. She also reflects on her varied experiences in consuming aural and visual content, such as podcasts, TV shows and movies, along with various side projects that she has maintained over the years.
Podcast case study: The Talk Show with John Gruber (listener)
Find Lynn at Lynn and Tonic.
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Running Pattern 00:00:00- ‘Dev' = 'developer' or 'development'
- ShopTalk
- Easter egg (media)
- The Weekly Planet
- GeoCities
- LiveJournal
- Myspace
- HTML
- CSS
- Open source
- View Source
- Mastodon (social network)
- Lynn and Tonic
- WordPress.com
- Top Chef
- The Good Place
- The Food Place
- The Good Place Lives on, in Menu Form (an interview with Lynn about her site, The Food Place)
- Megan Amram, producer of The Good Place
- Nestflix
- Home Alone
- Angels with Filthy Souls on Nestflix (Lynn’s listing)
- Angels with Filthy Souls on YouTube (movie-within-a-movie excerpt)
Commentary and Appreciation 09:08- Twitter (now X)
- Stephanie Eckles
- Discord
- Frontend Horse
- Miriam Suzanne
Two Forms of the Same Thing 16:38- Blog
- Medium (website)
- Substack
- RSS
- The Talk Show with John Gruber
- Michael Hobbes
- Maintenance Phase
- If Books Could Kill
- Popular science (or ‘popsci’)
- Patreon
I Wanted this Thing to Exist 21:48- Spotify
- Buy Me a Coffee
- IATA airport code
- Lynn’s portfolio archive
- GitHub
Eclectic Weirdo 30:21- Intermedia
- A Single Div
- User experience (UX)
- User interface (UI)
- Web design
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
41 min - Jarrod Blundy
Jarrod explains how he discovered the world of podcasting during a long road trip with a friend, going on to enjoy shows about outdoor reaction, news and the Apple fan community. He also elaborates on his experience of starting his own website, HeyDingus, along with listening to various Apple-centric podcasts—making particular reference to 20 Macs for 2020, a show by writer and podcaster Jason Snell, which blended tech podcasting with a narrative journalism format.
Podcast case study: 20 Macs for 2020 (listener)
Find Jarrod at HeyDingus.
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The Operating System for Me 00:00:00- Apple Inc.
- iTunes
- Apple Events video podcast
- Stevenote
- Original Apple podcast icon
- Michigan
- Michigan Ice Fest: The History of the Oldest Ice Climbing Festival in the US
- Ice climbing
- The Dirtbag Diaries
- Information about Fitz Cahall and others who work on the podcast
- Talk radio
- iPod nano
- Apple’s website in 2006 (courtesy of the Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine)
- Microsoft Windows
- Mac (computer) and macOS
- Scouting
- MacRumors
- Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
- Casey Liss
- John Siracusa
- Marco Arment
- 9to5Mac
- Six Colors
- 512 Pixels
- Ars Technica
Entertainment and Production 08:30- Relay FM
- Clockwise
- Connected
- Cortex
- Mac Power Users
- Reconcilable Differences
- Thoroughly Considered
- Upgrade
- AppStories
- Apple News Today
- The Good News Podcast
- Core Intuition
- Dithering
- Hemispheric Views
- The Rebound
- Ruminate
- The Talk Show with John Gruber
- Vergecast
- Your Daily Lex
- Overcast
- Pocket Casts
- Castro
- RSS
- RSS reader (or news aggregator)
- Squarespace
- HTML
- CSS
- Blog
- Blot
- Twitter (rebranding to X at the time of this podcast episode’s publication)
A Place that I Own 20:56- HeyDingus
- Virtual assistant
- Siri
- Google Assistant
- Shortcuts (app)
- Micro.blog
- Manton Reece (creator of the service)
20 Macs for 2020 24:02- 20 Macs for 2020 is a podcast that was delivered in three media (or formats), including an audio-only podcast at Relay FM, a video playlist at 512 Pixels on YouTube and written essays at Six Colors. The podcast creator and host, Jason Snell, can be found at Six Colors or on Mastodon.
- ’20 Macs for 2020’ (Jarrod’s blog post about the show from January 2021)
- iMac
- Macintosh 128K (or the original Macintosh)
- Power Macintosh
- Stratechery
Accessibility 31:10- Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility
- Wordle
- Emoji
- Federico Viticci
- Browse the MacStories Shortcuts Archive.
- iOS 17
A Hidden Side of Myself 33:53- View the 7 Things category in Jarrod’s blog archive.
- Notes (Apple)
- JavaScript
- Jarrod’s store on Cotton Bureau (This item was not placed in these show notes with any sponsorship arrangement—only to reflect its mention.)
- Noun Project
- Pixelmator
- Ted Lasso
I Haven’t Burned Out 41:57- How to download your X archive
- Importing tweets to Micro.blog
- RoutineHub
- Things (app)
- iBook
- Jony Ive
- Jony Ive, Apple designer who started his career at tangerine, to set up his own studio
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
A Special NoteJarrod is a paying subscriber of Martin’s One Prime Plus membership program for the shared podcast, Hemispheric Views; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Jarrod as a participant of this academic podcasting project.
48 min - John Gruber
John shares his personal narrative as the writer of Daring Fireball and host of The Talk Show with John Gruber, which is now both a podcast and a live show with Apple executives, held during the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference. In the conversation, John explains what first captivated him about computers at an early age, expands on his passion for reading and writing and outlines how he has carved out a life of independent production and commentary, based on his technological interests. Last, he describes what he’s most proud of.
Podcast case study: The Talk Show with John Gruber (producer)
Find John at Daring Fireball.
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The Director’s Commentary 00:00:00- The Talk Show by John Gruber and Dan Benjamin was hosted on a different site, which can now be found in the Internet Archive.
- Dan Benjamin
- Hivelogic now redirects to the site above.
- Internet radio
- Daring Fireball
- iPod
- USB
- FireWire
- FM radio
- Apple Inc.
- iPhone
- Mac (computer)
- Substack
- Blue Microphones
- Amazon (company)
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- MP3
- Audio data compression
- YouTube
- Blog (a truncation of ‘weblog’)
- Ad tech = online advertising technology
- Domain name
A Voracious Reader 00:10:12- Computer science
- Apple IIGS
- Drexel University
- Stephen King
- Isaac Asimov
- Internet
I’ve Carved Out this Life 00:17:04- Atari 2600
- Pong
- Word processor (electronic device)
- Typewriter
- Liquid-crystal display (LCD)
- World Wide Web
- Dave Winer
- scripting.com
- Jorn Barger
- Robot Wisdom was Jorn’s early blog, which can now be found in the Internet Archive.
- Robot Wisdom and How Jorn Barger Invented Blogging
- Usenet
- TidBITS
- HyperCard
- Mailing list
- Jason Kottke
- kottke.org
- Macworld
- Browse an extensive library of MacUser PDF magazines at vintageapple.org.
- The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Pulitzer Prize
- The New York Times
- The Washington Post
- Center City, Philadelphia
- The Talk Show with John Gruber
Freely Honest 00:38:04- Zoom (software)
- Skype
- COVID-19 pandemic
- iOS
- Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)
- Daring Fireball on YouTube, featuring videos of John’s annual The Talk Show Live events with Apple executives
- Mimi Sheraton
- Remembering Mimi Sheraton, Innovative New York Times Food Critic (John’s mentioned article on Daring Fireball)
- Android (operating system)
- Walled garden (technology)
A Loose, Unofficial Community 00:52:29- RSS
- Twitter (rebranding to X at the time of this podcast episode’s publication)
- @gruber
- @daringfireball
- Content management system (CMS)
- Reddit
- John’s three mentioned Twitter/X alternatives and his accounts on each one
- Mastodon (social network)
- Bluesky Social
- @gruber.foo
- Threads (social network)
- @gruber
- TikTok
- Facebook
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
A Vision for the Whole Internet 01:00:52- Spotify
- Joe Rogan
- Bill Simmons
- The Ringer
- Ghost (blogging platform)
- Marco Arment
- Overcast
- Castro
- Application programming interface (API)
- News aggregator
- NetNewsWire
- Reeder
- XML
- Paywall
- Dithering
- Ben Thompson
- Stratechery
- Bob Dylan
- It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (the song with the lyrics that John quoted)
- Banner ad
- YouTuber
- Patreon
- Google
Pretty Proud of That 01:18:00- John’s full searchable archive at Daring Fireball
- Markdown
- A few articles about Apple’s Brushed Metal user interface
- Aqua (user interface) on Wikipedia, with mentions of Brushed Metal throughout the article
- Brushed Metal and the HIG on Daring Fireball
- The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme on Daring Fireball
- The Brushed Metal Diaries: An Introduction, a Trojan Horse and a History of Abuse on 512 Pixels
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
A Special NoteMartin is a paying subscriber of John’s shared membership program for Dithering; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on John as a participant of this academic podcasting project.
1 hr 24 min - Baldur Bjarnason
Baldur reflects on his family’s history in radio broadcasting, his path to interactive media and writing books and how he moved away from listening to tech podcasts.
Content warning: some coarse language
Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (listener)
Find Baldur at baldurbjarnason.com.
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Fourth Generation 00:00:00- RSS
- Perl
- Interactive media
- RÚV is the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.
- World War II
- British invasion of Iceland
- Allied occupation of Iceland
- Attack of Pearl Harbor
- Telegraphy
- Axis powers
- Hotel Borg
- Vox populi (or vox pop)
- Web development
Interactive Media Environments 00:08:13- Software widget
- Graphical widget
- COVID-19 pandemic
- HyperCard
- Macintosh SE
- Solitaire
- Tetris
- What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
- Comparative literature
- Computer science (or ‘comp sci’)
- University of the West of England (UWE)
- Bower Ashton campus map
- BBC Radio
- Dot-com bubble (including reference to the dot-com crash)
- Adobe Flash
- Sandbox (software development)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- ebook
- Amazon Kindle
- iPhone
- iPad
Defamiliarisation 00:15:43- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Cryptocurrency (or ‘crypto’)
- Popular culture (or ‘pop culture’)
- The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin
- Recordings of public lectures in the Internet Archive
- Processor (computing)
- Musical genre mash-up!
- Pop-punk
- Post-punk
- Neosurrealism
- Accidental Tech Podcast
- Jason Snell
- Defamiliarisation
- Viktor Shklovsky
- Bertolt Brecht
- YouTube
- Line Goes Up – The Problem with NFTs
- Defunctland
- Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History
- App Store (iOS/iPadOS)
- Tom Abba
- *This is not the future of the book
- Out of the Software Crisis by Baldur Bjarnason
- Open source
Pick and Choose 00:31:03- Round table
- Narrative journalism
- 20 Macs for 2020 was released in multiple formats:
- a podcast on Relay FM;
- a series of written blog posts at Six Colors; and
- a YouTube playlist hosted at 512 Pixels
- Facebook
- Twitter (rebranding to X)
- Revenue sharing
- Threads (social network)
- Bluesky Social
- Mastodon (social network)
- Algorithm
- Patreon
- Whisper (software)
- Descript
- Substack
- Email list
- Apple Podcasts
- Spotify
- du jour = ‘of the day’, e.g. ’soup *du jour’ = soup of the day
My Computer Identity 00:44:05- Mac (computer)
- Macintosh Performa
- Microsoft Windows
- macOS (previously referred to as Mac OS X and OS X)
- Pro Tools
- Apple Human Interface Guidelines
- User interface design
- Apple simplified System Settings for macOS Ventura, moved many items from AppleInsider
- System Settings (previously named System Preferences)
- Disk Utility
- Linux
- GNOME
- Safari (web browser)
- ARM architecture family
- Amy Hoy
- User experience (UX)
- ChromeOS
- Software bug
- Netscape
- Jamie Zawinski (a.k.a. jwz)
- HAL 9000
Plumbing of the Web 01:01:05- HTML
- XML
- Markup language
- Static websites
- Flat file
- Client-side
- iBook G3 ‘Clamshell’ (or what Baldur’s dad refers to as the ‘toilet-seat iBook’)
- NetNewsWire
- OPML
- Domain name
- Stacking the Bricks (podcast)
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
1 hr 11 min - Marco Arment
Marco tells the story of how he became a Mac enthusiast, indie app developer and tech podcaster, covering his work on Tumblr, Instapaper, Overcast and Accidental Tech Podcast, among other projects. He also explains why he thinks it's so important to maintain the open Web and podcasting through RSS, in the face of more exclusive publishing platforms and audio hosts.
Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (producer)
Find Marco at marco.org.
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The Stronghold of Podcasting 00:00:00- This Week in Tech (TWiT)
- This Week in Tech (podcast)
- MacBreak Weekly
- The Word Nerds (Archive)
- Tumblr
- You Look Nice Today
- Ricky Gervais
- The Ricky Gervais Show
- Stack Overflow
- The Stack Overflow Podcast
- Joel Spolsky
- Jeff Atwood
- Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
- CD-R
- MP3
- CD player
- iPod
- The iPod Video was the fifth generation of a product line that is now collectively referred to as the iPod Classic.
- iPhone
- This American Life
- COVID-19 pandemic
- Audiobook
- Cable television
- Leo Laporte
- AM broadcasting
- Talk radio
Self-taught 00:09:11- Videocassette recorder (VCR)
- Microsoft Paint
- BASIC
- 3-2-1 Contact Magazine was an American educational television show about science that aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, with an adjoining children's magazine, and which can now be found in the Internet Archive.
- Windows 3.1
- Disk operating system (DOS)
- MS-DOS
- QBasic
- Visual Basic (classic)
- C (programming language)
- Unix
- Solution stack
- Sun Microsystems
- Scalable Processor Architecture (SPARC)
- SPARCstation
- Solaris
- Segmentation fault
- Mac (computer)
- IBM PC compatible (now more of a historical term that relates to our current usage of the term ‘Windows PC’)
- Vivísimo
- Yippy (originally developed and released as ‘Clusty’)
- Computer memory
- Version control
- Software bug
Tumblr 00:20:24- Craigslist
- Tumblr
- Software development
- Indie (disambiguation)
- West Coast of the United States
- Amazon (company)
- Bloomberg L.P.
- Bloomberg Technology
- Davidville
- David Karp
- PHP
- Shard (database architecture)
- Twitter
- Content management system (CMS)
- Microblogging (The first micro-blogs were known as ‘tumblelogs’.)
- Myspace (formerly known as MySpace)
- Facebook
- LiveJournal
- WordPress (content management system)
A Great Time to Be a Mac User 00:33:02- Apple, Inc.
- Desktop computer
- Windows Update
- Digital Visual Interface (DVI)
- Vim (text editor)
- Terminal emulator
- Linux
- Server (computing)
- Ruby on Rails
- TextMate
- MacBook (2006–2012)
- PowerBook G4
A Better Audience 00:38:13- Web development
- 5by5
- Weblogs, Inc.
- Engadget
- Gizmodo
- Lifehacker
- RSS
- News aggregator (or in certain cases or implementations, RSS reader)
- Digg
- Reddit
- Hacker News
- Dan Benjamin
- Instapaper
- iPad
- Build and Analyze was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive.
- YouTube
- Overcast (app)
- Merlin Mann
- John Siracusa
Accidental Tech Podcast 00:49:43- Neutral
- Casey Liss
- Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
- Membership program
- Relay FM
- John Roderick (musician)
Overcast 00:58:16- Overcast
- Overcast (app) (further information)
- Music (software) (The app to which Marco refers was originally known as the iPod app on iPhones.)
- Downcast (app)
- Android (operating system)
- Pocket Casts
- Apple Podcasts
- Stitcher
- App store
- App Store (iOS/iPadOS)
- TikTok
- Instagram
- Proxy server
How the Internet Is Supposed to Work 01:05:06- World Wide Web
- Web standards
(redirecting from ‘open Web’)- Decentralisation
- Comcast
- Verizon Communications, Inc.
- UUNET
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- Walmart
- Monopsony
- Google
- Amazon Kindle
- Spotify
- Trade magazine
- Eddy Cue
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
A Special NoteMartin is a paid subscriber of Marco Arment’s shared membership program for Accidental Tech Podcast; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Marco as a participant of this academic podcasting project.
1 hr 19 min - Grace Teng
Grace is a developer and podcast fan, who shares her experience of following various independent shows over the years and in producing her own chatcast, titled Monkey Mind. During the conversation, she also covers her passion for video games and considers the key differences between aural and visual media, drawing on her own study of film and background in video production.
Content warning: discussion of clinical depression
Podcast case study: Connected at Relay FM (listener)
Find Grace at graceteng.me.
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How the Habit Started 00:00:00- Major depressive disorder (or clinical depression)
- The Pen Addict (blog)
- Relay FM
- The Pen Addict (podcast)
- Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
- 99% Invisible
- Planet Money
- Myke Hurley
- John Siracusa
- Merlin Mann
- 43 Folders
- Cortex
- Mac Power Users
- Ungeniused
- Playing for Fun
- Celeste (video game)
- Analog(ue)
- Connected
The Dynamic 00:09:18- Mac (computer)
- Casey Liss
- Parasocial interaction
- Google
- Amazon (company)
- Blog
- iPhone
- Early adopter
Monkey Mind 00:18:49- Monkey Mind
- Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
- COVID-19 pandemic
What Sound Can Do 00:26:17- Software engineering
- Start-up company
- Multimedia
- Apple File System (APFS)
- NPR
- This American Life
- Montage (filmmaking)
- Juxtaposition
- YouTube
Not a Purist 00:36:46- Chatcast = a podcast with a conversational format, rather than a narrative one
- RSS
- Adam Savage
- Adam Savage’s Tested
- Speedrunning
- Dear PB
- Games Done Quick
- Think Fast! Sly Another Day (video example)
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
45 min - Shelly Brisbin
Shelly is a writer, editor and podcaster who tirelessly advocates for greater accessibility in digital technology. Joining Really Specific Stories, she shares her journalistic and storytelling experience, explains her audio projects, such as Parallel with Relay FM, and illustrates how far we’ve come (and still have to go) in making hardware, software and media accessible.
Podcast case study: Parallel at Relay FM (producer)
Find Shelly at brisbin.net.
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Mindful of Ethics 00:00:00- RSS
- Macworld/iWorld
- Watch the Macworld 2005 keynote in the Internet Archive.
- Adobe Pagemaker
- Mac (computer)
- Desktop publishing
- Laser printing
- Linotype machine
- Macintosh Plus
- Page layout (with further information about galleys)
- Rubylith
- Light table
- See a scan of the top portion of Supercomputing News (Vol. 1 No. 3) from 1988, which was kindly provided by Shelly because the publication preceded the Web. This was her first editing job!
- Hydra (operating system)
- Cray-1
- MacUser
- Apple Inc.
- Microsoft Windows
Go My Own Way 00:07:44- Trade journalism
- Tech Podcast Network
- History of podcasting (with references to couplecasting)
- Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility
- Diversity (politics)
Accessibility in the Mainstream 00:16:36- Disability
- Assistive technology
- Google
- Microsoft
- Software bug
- Pro Tools
- iRiver
- MP3
- iPhone
- Artificial intelligence (AI)
- Transcription software
- Content management system (CMS)
- iOS Access for All: Your Comprehensive Guide to Accessibility for iPhone and iPad by Shelly Brisbin
- Jason Snell
- Use Switch Control on Mac
- Use Switch Control to navigate your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- iOS Switch Control Demo (YouTube video excerpt of Todd Stabelfeldt's keynote from Apple's WWDC 2017)
Parallel and Relay FM 00:35:31- Parallel
- Relay FM
- Stephen Hackett
- Myke Hurley
- iOS
- macOS
- Android (operating system)
- Twitter
- Slack (software)
- Discord
Feedback and Engagement 00:45:24- Mastodon (social network)
- Mention (blogging)
- Wallflower (people)
Aural Inclusivity, Niches and Narratives 00:49:49- Fortune 500
- 36 Seconds that Changed Everything: How the iPhone Learned to Talk
- Narrative journalism
- Radio documentary
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
59 min - Jason Snell
Jason recounts his personal history as a tech enthusiast and how he built a new life on the Web as an independent writer and podcaster. Along the way, he considers his identity, interaction with fan communities and development of various solo and collaborative projects.
Podcast case study: 20 Macs for 2020 at Relay FM (producer)
Find Jason at sixcolors.com.
Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.
A Highly-focused Beam 00:00:00- Steve Jobs
- iTunes
- Apple announced support for podcasts in iTunes 4.9.
- Apple Takes Podcasting Mainstream (Apple Newsroom press release from 28 June 2005)
- Steve Jobs announces switch to Intel & Podcasting WWDC 2005 (Steve Jobs Archive on YouTube, jumps straight to podcast announcement at 00:06:46)
- For those who enjoy digital spelunking, here’s the full history of iTunes.
- Macworld
- Macworld Podcast
- Mac (computer)
- Apple Inc.
- iPod
- Hypercritical (podcast)
- Build and Analyze was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive.
- Marco Arment
- Dan Benjamin
- Downstream
- Julia Alexander
- Parrot Analytics
- Tim Goodman
- Articles at The Hollywood Reporter
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Twitter
- The Incomparable
- InterText
Building an Audience 00:10:17- RSS
- Ricky Gervais
- The Ricky Gervais Show
- tv.org (Snapshots are in the Internet Archive.)
- Usenet
- FTP server
- Offset printing
- GarageBand
- Substack
- Accessibility
- Byline
- Leo Laporte
- This Week in Tech (TWiT)
- MacBreak Weekly
- Relay FM
- Myke Hurley
- Stephen Hackett
- John Siracusa
- John’s archive of articles at Ars Technica
Community and Persona 00:22:05- Mastodon (social network)
- New tool ‘Movetodon’ makes it easier to find your Twitter friends on Mastodon (This is one example of the tools that were available to switch networks.)
- Upgrade
- MacUser
- The Rebound
- Dan Moren
- Lex Friedman
- John Moltz
Honesty and Care 00:30:51- Anti-fan
- Star Trek
- Star Wars
- Marvel Entertainment
- Google Pixel
- Android (operating system)
- Harry McCracken
- Andy Ihnatko
- E-reader
- AppleScript
A Massive Media Transition 00:44:09- 20 Macs for 2020
- TikTok
- YouTube
- Rene Ritchie
- Jason’s @bleedsixcolors YouTube channel
I Have Eight Jobs! 00:53:41- Jason mentions three of his membership programs for podcast fans:
- Six Colors;
- The Incomparable; and
- Upgrade+ (displayed alongside other shows at Relay FM).
- Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
- Airbnb
- David Sparks
- John Gruber
CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio
As an insight into community influence and my own fandom, I use Ferrite Recording Studio with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil because of Jason's early reviews of the app (such as this one) and his comprehensive demo video on YouTube. Just to emphasise the 'iPadness' of this academic/community audio project, you may notice that I left the iPadOS pointer visible in the screenshot above, which Jason also wrote about optimistically back in 2020.
Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion
Contact- Website: rsspod.net
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
- Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld
A Special NoteMartin is a paying subscriber of Jason’s Six Colors and Upgrade+ membership programs; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Jason as a participant of this academic podcasting project.
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Join Martin Feld, podcast studies researcher and co-host of Hemispheric Views, as he delves into narratives of tech-podcast fandom and the role of open RSS, featuring producers and their listeners.…
(The show is currently on hiatus, as the collected interviews have been analysed and included in the submitted thesis.)