Jarrod Blundy Really Specific Stories

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.


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


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.