The Dan York Report

It's been a loooonnnngggg while since the last episode! But I'm back with a long list of episodes... and I'd like to engage with YOU, listeners, in experimenting with Reddit Talk as a way to record podcast episodes. If you are a Redditor, please drop me a note and lets figure out a time to try out Reddit Talk! (More info: https://reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404349195284 )

For the 13th year, I started my first episode of 2022 talking about the "themes" I see myself weaving into my life over the next 12 months. This episode is a companion to this blog post that goes into more written detail: https://www.danyork.com/2022/01/my-themes-for-2022.html

Twitter Spaces is now available to everyone on iOS and Android with more than 600 followers. In this episode, I talk about all the changes Twitter has made to Spaces since episode 406 back in February, and all the features they have said are coming soon. And I ask the question - after the pandemic, will people still listen?

If you go to the top of a Wikipedia article, there is a "Talk" tab in the upper left that brings you to the "Talk page" for an article. What is this Talk page for? How is it used? What happens on that page? In this episode, I talk about the role of Talk pages in enabling collaboration between editors to improve articles. I explain the various use cases and WHY you might want to look at Talk pages to understand more. I also discuss user talk pages and sending messages to other editors. More info at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines

See also episode 405 - https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-405-a-frustrating-aspect-of-wikipedia-your-page-is-not-yours-to-edit-explaining-coi

As Clubhouse turns 1, every other service seems to want to have their own rival version. On the last show 406 I talked about Twitter Spaces, which has continued to evolve and improve. Facebook has indicated they are building their own… and in this episode I talk about new entrants from Discord and LinkedIn… and Spotify’s entrance into the game, as well as Telegram adding voice chats to their messaging app. More in these links:

- https://blog.discord.com/captivate-your-community-with-stage-channels-46bbb756e89b

-https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/31/discord-stage-channels-voice-events/

- https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/30/linkedin-confirms-its-working-on-a-clubhouse-rival-too/

- https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-03-30/spotify-acquires-locker-room-and-announces-plans-for-a-new-live-audio-experience/

- https://www.axios.com/spotify-betty-labs-locker-room-52550d15-3c05-48ed-b924-a9404c31901b.html

- https://telegram.org/blog/voice-chats-on-steroids

- https://www.makeuseof.com/telegram-is-launching-an-unlimited-upgrade-to-voice-chats/

Plus the cautionary tale about who audio channels may be excluding:

- https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/clubhouse-voice-social-media-people-who-stutter.html

So what’s the deal with TwitterSpaces? How does it work? Will it truly be a competitor to Clubhouse for “social audio”? Today I had a chance to participate in three TwitterSpaces - and in this episode I talk about the experience of joining a TwitterSpace, what you can do inside of it, how you interact with it, my thoughts on how it is different from Clubhouse, and some thoughts on "social audio". Two posts I reference are:

- https://stratechery.com/2021/clubhouses-inevitability/

- https://web-strategist.com/blog/2021/01/30/the-future-of-social-audio-startups-roadmap-business-models-and-a-forecast/

I welcome feedback either to @danyork on Twitter or via email to [email protected]

"Wait? What? If something is wrong on a Wikipedia page about my company, I can't just go in and edit it??? That's crazy!" One of the most challenging and frustrating aspects for newcomers to Wikipedia is the guidelines and policies about "conflict of interest" (COI). What you think of as "your" page is NOT your page to edit. In this episode I talk about what is going on, why this is the way it is... and what you can do within Wikipedia's conventions if you do have COI and would like to suggest changes to an article. Please do let me know your feedback about this episode and whether you would like more episodes about Wikipedia. Some resources:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Plain_and_simple_conflict_of_interest_guide

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources

- https://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2021/01/most-nights-you-can-find-me-briefly-streaming-on-twitch-and-editing-wikipedia.html

- https://www.twitch.tv/danyork324

Wikipedia is an idea that probably should NOT work... but it does! On January 15, 2021, Wikipedia celebrated its 20th anniversary with over 6 million English articles and having just celebrated its 1 billionth edit (Jan 13). In this 404th episode, I talk about this milestone, and my own involvement in Wikipedia editing - and some of the things I've learned over this year. Some links:

- https://wikimediafoundation.org/wikipedia20/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:20th_anniversary

- https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/1350125701513572355

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/15/wikipedia-20-year-anniversary/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dyork

As I've done for the last 12 years, I started 2021 talking about the "themes" I see myself weaving into my life over the next 12 months. This episode is a companion to this blog post that goes into more written detail: https://www.danyork.com/2021/01/my-themes-for-2021.html

Is it true that over 39% of websites now use WordPress? In this episode I talk about that statistic and other information coming out of the “State of the Word 2020” event by Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, the company behind the hosted WordPress.com and driving overall WordPress development