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The Podcast Index presents Podcasting 2.0 - Upgrading Podcasting

  1. 6D AGO

    Episode 259: SlopJacked

    Podcasting 2.0 May 1st 2026 Episode 259 - "SlopJacked" Dave ships first-party data at the app level - the new /upload/followcounts endpoint changes everything. Plus the podcast:contact; proposal, RSS.com's Alberto Betella on AI disclosure as enforcement substrate Download the mp3 Podcast Feed PodcastIndex.org Preservepodcasting.com Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com Support us with your Time Talent and Treasure ShowNotes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bloomberg article we discussed about podslop, featuring the chicken guy from Alabama ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01 - DAVE SHIPS /upload/followcounts — FIRST-PARTY DATA AT THE APP LEVEL (folder: 01 Dave-Ships-Followcounts) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 02 - NAMESPACE PROPOSAL (folder: 02 Contact-Namespace) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 - ALBERTO BETELLA (RSS.com CEO) — AI DISCLOSURE TAG AS ENFORCEMENT SUBSTRATE (folder: 03 Alberto-RSS-AI-Disclosure) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 04 - TUCSON DENTAL CARE SEO SPAM PODCAST CLEANUP (folder: 04 Tucson-Dental-SEO-Spam) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 05 - AI HARDWARE CRUNCH — $65 BILLION US POWER EQUIPMENT BOOM (folder: 05 AI-Hardware-Crunch) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 06 - ANTHROPIC + AI PRICING FOLLOW-UP (folder: 06 Anthropic-AI-Pricing) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 07 - ROBLOX TANKS 18% ON CHILD SAFETY MEASURES (folder: 07 Roblox-Child-Safety) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08 - BOARDROOM NEWS BITES (folder: 08 Boardroom-News-Bites) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clip Sources Last Modified 05/01/2026 14:18:38 by Freedom Controller

    1h 24m
  2. APR 24

    Episode 258: Perceptron

    Podcasting 2.0 April 24th 2026 Episode 258 - "Perceptron" Dave and Adam walk through the entire technical process of building an industry resource for auto-flagging spam and slop podcasts. It's a doozy! Shownotes ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Booking Tag ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DeepSeek V4 Released — Open Source AI From China DeepSeek V4 released April 24 — two variants: V4-Pro (1.6T params) and V4-Flash (284B params, 13B active) Open-weight MIT license, 1 million token context window Trained on domestic Chinese chips (Huawei Ascend, Cambricon) — not Nvidia V4-Flash: $0.14/M input tokens — cheapest frontier-class model available White House OSTP accusing China of 'industrial-scale' distillation of US AI models Anthropic caught DeepSeek using 24,000 fake accounts and 16M exchanges to distill Claude Our own testing: DeepSeek V3.1 on Together.ai is 4-10x faster and half the cost of Llama 3.3 70B for production tasks CNBC: DeepSeek V4 Preview CNN: White House Accuses China Copying American AI ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthropic Claude Code Pricing Drama Anthropic quietly removed Claude Code from $20/month Pro plan on April 21 Developer backlash immediate — reversed within hours Head of Growth: 'a test on 2% of new signups' — but page changes were global Internal data: heavy users cost Anthropic $60-$150/month on a $20 subscription GitHub also suspended flat-rate Copilot signups, removed Claude Opus from $10 tier The AI subscription model is structurally broken — WeWork/Uber playbook StartupFortune article Anthropic postmortem (April 23) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Voluntary Buyout — 7% of US Workforce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics for Today Podping / namespace updates? Feed cloning follow-up from 257 — any new developments? Sovereign Feeds update — feed editing experience Last Modified 04/24/2026 14:38:32 by Freedom Controller

    1h 39m
  3. APR 3

    Episode 256: Master of Disaster

    Podcasting 2.0 April 3rd 2026 Episode 256: "Master of Disaster"   ShowNotes Index API Under Bot Attack   "Lyra" bots destroying API. OpenClaw scrapers (creator hired by OpenAI). Steno.fm 500 req/min. Dave: "Now I'm just angry." @dave on Lyra bots @dave on reflypod/OpenClaw OpenClaw Drama ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Podping Alpha - Dave 6 Releases This Week v0.4.0-v0.4.5: swarm health metrics, peer announcements, gossip-listener hang fix. @suorcd contributing PRs. Podping alpha releases "Dave did SIX podping releases this week. At this rate, podping will be at version 47 by Christmas. Still in alpha." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Buzzsprout Free Transcripts Free auto transcripts for paid plans. Speaker ID (unlike Apple). Chapters integration. Fanmail reply + voicemail. Podnews: Buzzsprout transcripts The Criddler on PC20 Complicated Community Transcript Format Debate - Deep Research ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HOT - Podcast Portals Land Grab (Beehiiv, Speakeasy, Substack)   Three hosting launches in one week. Do ANY support namespace tags, V4V, or Podping? Beehiiv launches podcast hosting - no revenue cut, IAB analytics Speakeasy (Red Seat/Fox Corp) - invitation-only, Backtracks ad-tech @samsethi: "Podcast portals offering hosting as ancillary service" -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    1h 32m

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