How many top podcasts use SSL feeds?

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In early 2016, Apple added support for SSL-secured podcast feeds.1 Though some people ↩

iTunes Smart App Banners work for podcasts, too

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Starting with iOS 6, Apple introduced Smart App Banners. If you’re an iPhone person, you’ve probably seen these things at the top of mobile websites, prompti...

The long tail of audio

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I spent this past weekend at the Third Coast public radio conference in Chicago. In many of the sessions, and hallway conversations, and up-way-too-late-at-a...

I’m going on tour

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CBC Radio has comissioned 10 episodes of Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids, based on the tiny little reading series I started back in 2007.

An argument for a digital-first CBC

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Paul Adams, writing about the future of the CBC for iPolitics:

This is Radio

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I just finished watching this episode of Andrew Norton‘s This is Radio, all about Roman Mars’s 99% Invisible:

Bagless Bromptons

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Remember that time I wasn’t allowed to bring my Brompton folding bicycle inside the CBC?

How to fix a Tivoli radio tuning problem

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Paneling

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Last week, I was part of a panel discussion at my alma mater (and sometimes employer) Ryerson University, talking about “Radio in a Digital Age” alongside St...

Patrick Stewart pledge drive messages

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Patrick Stewart’s WNYC pledge drive spots seem custom-made for people (like me) who: