DIY radio with PODcasting

This post is from September 28, 2004, and ran in a Linux Journal blog called IT Garage, now archived at the Wayback Machine. Its significance is the research data point it provides for podcasts, which was then new and now brings up 171,000,000 results (at least for me) on Google…

Why I’m Laying My Blog To Rest

So, the Hoxton Handmade website seems to have left this mortal coil, finally, possibly as an act of protest against months of neglect on my part. I can’t actually get into the blog anymore, I’ve no idea why, but I suspect it’s down to quantum*.

Many big podcasts already have “listener pays” models. My listeners can pay for an ad-free show through an app, and Libsyn has a whole catalog of shows offering premium content through apps (https://my.libsyn.com/). Midroll has a premium subscription feature called Howl (which they call the “Netflix of Podcasts”). Other podcasters such as This Week…