Really Specific Stories Martin Feld

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.


Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.


Links and Show Notes

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



Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio





Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion


Contact


Website: rsspod.net
Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld

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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Links and Show Notes

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


Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio





Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion


Contact


Website: rsspod.net
Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld

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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Links and Show Notes

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


Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio





Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion


Contact


Website: rsspod.net
Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld

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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Links and Show Notes

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


Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio





Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion


Contact


Website: rsspod.net
Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld


A Special Note

Jarrod 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.

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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Links and Show Notes

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)


@gruber@mastodon.social

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



Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio





Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion


Contact


Website: rsspod.net
Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
M

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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Links and Show Notes

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)


Credits

Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio





Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion


Contact


Website: rsspod.net
Email: martin@loungeruminator.net
Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld