Four Dumb Things About Podcasting We Still Haven’t Fixed

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There’s no doubt that podcasting today — producing and listening — is much less complicated than before. But some lingering challenges remain that we must overcome to capture more public attention.

Smart Speakers Still Suck For Listening To Podcasts

Podcasting Data Is Still Untrustworthy And Obfuscated

RSS Feeds Still Suck

Podcasting Is Still Terribly Under-monetized

Evo’s Still Cranky

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Professional contrarian. On a mission to make fiction podcasting better. he/him. คุณ | https://theend.fyi | https://home.social/@evoterra

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Evo Terra

Professional contrarian. On a mission to make fiction podcasting better. he/him. คุณ | https://theend.fyi | https://home.social/@evoterra
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