New podcast players for the web
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For your commute home (Americans) or for slightly older news when you wake up (the rest of us), a reminder that Vox’s Today Explained launches today.
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Melbourne-based podcast network Nearly and podcasting agency Placard Media have merged, effective today: the company will be known as Placard Media from hereon. Courtney Carthy is now Placard Media’s Chief Creative Officer; Andy Hayes continues as CEO/CTO.
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The Bookseller covers Entale, a platform “enhancing the current podcasting technical standards and introducing a new form of audio storytelling with enhanced media and richer metadata”. Clients include Universal Music and Condé Nast.
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Similarly, The Guardian is experimenting with a new podcast player for the mobile web, which also offers enhanced media and richer metadata. They have written it up on Medium; and here’s where you can try it.
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The Chicago Tribune says that the podcasting boom is “still just getting started”.
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Live podcasts ruin everything that makes podcasts great, opines Rosie Spinks in a column in Quartz. She feels they’re less intimate, and the hosts concentrate on the live audience, not the listener.
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A new book, “The Book on Podcasting: An Insider’s Guide to Recording Success”, has been released. The Podcaster’s Coach Alexander Laurin’s new book offers advice for new and experienced podcasters on how to achieve a life of success through the creation of a podcast.
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Christopher Peterson writes a piece on how he produces a podcast on Linux. Worthwhile reading irrespective of your operating system of choice.
