jamescridland

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by jamescridland 6y ago
This is nice. Bullhorn offers similar: but the benefit you have is that you're giving a fixed telephone number, and fixed code.
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by jamescridland 6y ago
The podcast page had a critical error when I went to look... nice idea though. You might find podcastindex.org is useful for this.
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by jamescridland 6y ago
This looks nice, though I can't work out why it's an "ultimate" podcast app. Have reported a bug with the RSS useragent.
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by jamescridland 6y ago
1. the OP works for Plausible 2. The OP uses a non-standard call to Plausible which probably isn’t in many block lists 3. It’s in mine
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by jamescridland 6y ago
This is very nice - congrats. I'll get it into podnews.net today. "Getting this up and running wasn't cheap" - I'd love to know how expensive it was and what you needed to do - would make for a great article if you&
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by jamescridland 6y ago
This is nice. Lots of wacky but good ideas. It's made the front page of Podnews today. https://podnews.net/update/rethinking-the-podcast-app
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by jamescridland 6y ago
Yeah, the "open podcast ecosystem". Which, er, ah, isn't actually that open. https://medium.com/@JamesCridland/with-spotify-and-joe-rogan...
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by jamescridland 6y ago
As a boring aside: this was never a podcast; but just a clip from a full program.
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by jamescridland 8y ago
However, BBC Podcasts are available globally - indeed, when listening outside the UK, they contain advertising.
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by jamescridland 8y ago
The standard is RAD. The BBC hasn't implemented it. For Google Podcasts, "downloaded" = "listened", since it has no auto-download feature. So they are (excepting the minority who manually download) actual listens. Y
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by jamescridland 8y ago
The BBC Sounds app is only available within the UK. You may be talking about the BBC iPlayer Radio app, which is the only one available outside the country. Unless you're side-loading on Android, which is perfectly possible too, but th
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by jamescridland 8y ago
Either: 1. You see a podcast you're interested in 2. You go to the BBC's website 3. You discover you need to download BBC Sounds (if in the UK) 4. You download the app 5. You register with a username and password (and UK postcode,
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by jamescridland 8y ago
The podcasts are played directly from the BBC's servers. The BBC already have all the consumption data that they would expect - IP address, device, time listened, etc - in their own server logs. Just like a normal podcast player. So...
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by jamescridland 8y ago
You mean - the option that says "mark as listened"? :)
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by jamescridland 8y ago
That's not quite what happens. https://podnews.net/article/bbc-blocks-google does go into the actual user experience, rather than what the BBC is claiming.
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by jamescridland 8y ago
https://podnews.net/article/bbc-blocks-google has more on this.
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by jamescridland 15y ago
I said "think twice", not "refuse"...
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by jamescridland 15y ago
As the author... It's a Kindle Keyboard. I just found it ironic that a competing product to the iPad was crashing when reading the biography of the person responsible for the iPad. That's all. I think mine has an issue with the battery leve