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The Podcast Index presents Podcasting 2.0 - Upgrading Podcasting
Episodes(40 episodes)
Episode 271: Foot Terminal
Podcasting 2.0 Episode 271 - "Foot Terminal"
Adam & Dave have their SCBA's on and go deep into index refactoring and ad loads!
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00 - đŸ”¥ STEP TWO OF THE SCARY STUFF — THE ENDPOINTS FLIP TO THE IDENTITY LAYER
Last week the table went in. This week the API started using it — one endpoint at a time, four days running.
Sat 12 Sep: "#api I'm running a script to sync up podcasts.id and newsfeeds.id so that when a new feed is born they are in...
Published: Sep 18, 2026Duration: 1h 31m 58s
Episode 270: YOLO Guy
Podcasting 2.0 September 11th 2026 Episode 270 - "YOLO Guy
Dave waves the whitflag on agentic coding and podcasting beneifts!Â
01 - đŸ˜‚ THE PODCAST RIG ATE ITSELF — AND IS NOW RUNNING OMARCHY
Sunday 6 Sep: "My Umbrel docker containers did not survive the OS upgrade from Ubuntu 20 to 24 on my podcast rig. This is why I never upgrade anything. I still have some Ubuntu 12 and 18 servers running." — a sentence that should be on a T-shirt at Podcast Movement.
Tuesday, the diagnosis, and he takes it on the chin: "It was a...
Published: Sep 11, 2026Duration: 1h 33m 58s
Episode 269: Verbal Pollution
Podcasting 2.0 August 28th 2026 Episode 269 - "Verbal Pollution"
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00 - DATABASE SURGERY WEEK — AND THE THIRD EMERGENCY OF THE MONTH
The lead, and it's Dave's: Saturday 22 Aug — "#api I'm in the middle of a big refactor with the Podcast Index database schema. If I do my job right, nobody will notice it. But, the side effect will be an overall huge increase in the consistency of the data (duplicates, url change lag, etc)."
@dave — the big schema refactor (22 Aug)
Wednesday night...
Published: Aug 28, 2026Duration: 1h 31m 46s
Episode 268: Dead Hanging Safari
Podcasting 2.0 August 21st 2026 Episode 268 - "Dead Hanging Safari"
It's always DNS or CORS - and how your right brain is gating bad robots
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00 - THE LOCATION TAG — SPEC TO DATASET TO GLOBE IN 48 HOURS
The lead, and it's yours: Wednesday afternoon Dave posted — "There is a new locations data set on the public datasets page... The db tables are still back-filling since I updated the db and aggregators to support the new tag format. After a couple of days it shou...
Published: Aug 21, 2026Duration: 1h 29m 45s
Episode 267: Chocolove
Podcasting 2.0 August 14th 2026 Episode 267 - "Chocolove"
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00 - THE SPOTIFY "SKIP AHEAD" BUTTON — THE BIG ONE
What it is: Spotify is testing a button that appears on the playback screen the moment it thinks you'd want to skip — an intro, a sponsorship message, or an entire ad break. It is bigger than everything else on screen. One tap drops you at the end of the break, back in the show. Premium subscribers only, selected markets including US and UK, and only when the app is in the foreground.
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Published: Aug 14, 2026Duration: 1h 35m 31s
Episode 266: Research Velocity
Podcasting 2.0 July 24th 2026 Episode 266 - "Research Velocity"
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đŸ“Œ FROM PREP.md — Adam's PC20 items
Pod News — podcast app revenue (source for 'cut the apps into the money')
Pod News — the ad-skipping player
Board Q (Adam): "If you go to another chapter, is that a new play?" — for the AMP play=30s definition.
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00 - DAVE'S WORLD: THE ALTERNATE ENCLOSURE FINALLY GETS PICKED UP + HLS-IN-RSS SURGE
Take the lap: Podbean and Buzzsprout are now testing/supporting the alternate e...
Published: Jul 24, 2026Duration: 1h 33m 49s
Episode 265: Jihobbyist
Podcasting 2.0 July 17th 2026 Episode 265 - "Jihobbyist"
Slop or Not! Lightning or Frightening! Adam and Dave go deep with the Boardroom after a 2 week break
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00 - PODPING GOSSIP-WRITER → PRODUCTION + INDEX PLUMBING
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01 - THE OPEN INDEX TURNS UP INSIDE AN AI SCRAPER (SUNO)
@js flagged it: a hack at Suno reveals the AI music generator used PodcastIndex to do its targeting — "with the help of an online tool called PodcastIndex, Suno identified 420,000 different podcasts that had at least five 30-minute epis...
Published: Jul 17, 2026Duration: 1h 41m 51s
Episode 264: Podcast Plebicide
Podcasting 2.0 June 19th 2026 Episode 264 - "Podcast Plebicide"
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Justin Jackson's post: We Have A Communication Problem
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00 - PODPING.ALPHA STABLE + INDEX / PV-ALPHA HYGIENE
Milestone: Dave — "I think we can safely say that podping.alpha is stable now. It's been many weeks of 100% uptime." Lead the boardroom with the win.
PV-alpha 500s: @mitch + Dave debugging the "get a list of feeds that have updates over the last X" endpoint throwing 500s; @mitch adding a delay between paginated re...
Published: Jun 19, 2026Duration: 1h 27m 28s
Episode 263: Chat is Dead
Podcasting 2.0 June 12th 2026 Episode 263 - "Chat is Dead"
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DG Editor - Building an idiot proof recording system for Bridge Church
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00 - THE USER-AGENT WAR — SPOOF vs. SIGN
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01 - THE PODCAST DATA COLLECTIVE (PCDC) — and Pod News reacts
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02 - MEASUREMENT RECKONING — AMP's 30-SECOND "PLAY"
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03 - PODCAST STANDARDS PROJECT vs 2.0 — and Index hygiene
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04 - APPLE WWDC — VIDEO PODCASTS EVERYWHERE
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05 - AI BUBBLE — FINANCIAL ENGINEERING...
Published: Jun 12, 2026Duration: 1h 29m 20s
Episode 262: Podcleanse
Podcasting 2.0 June 5th 2026 Episode 262 - "Podcleanse"
Dave and Adam are joined by John Spurlock and throw a big idea into the boardroom: The Podcast Data Collective
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John Spurlock - Guest
The man behind op3.dev and Livewire.io - From the Great State of New Jersey!
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01 - THE IMPRESSION HEIST — AMP TASK FORCE RATIFIES 4 EXPOSURE DEFINITIONS, NO DISSENTING VOTES
Podnews press release Jun 4: AMP Task Force Introduces Cross-Platform Alternative to the Podcast "Download" — "unified impression guidance for audio and...
Published: Jun 5, 2026Duration: 1h 51m 43s
Episode 261: Podhemian Grove
Podcasting 2.0 May 29th 2026 Episode 261 - "Podhemian Grove"
Podcasting 2.0 May 29th 2026 Episode 261 - "Podhemian Grove"
Mike Dell joined the board room to help Adam and Dave with the solution to the Secret Pdcast Group's Problems.
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01 - ALLIANCE FOR MEASUREMENT IN PODCASTING —
Podnews press release this morning: Alliance fo...
Published: May 29, 2026Duration: 1h 26m 17s
Episode 260: Tennessee Trickshot
Podcasting 2.0 May 15th 2026 Episode 260 - "Tennessee Trickshot"
Podcasting 2.0 May 15th 2026 Episode 260 - "Tennessee Trickshot"
Adam & Dave Predict The Winter. That's all you need to know!
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01 - NGINX Rift: Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability
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02 - ROB GREENLEE'S LLM-GHOSTWRITTEN "...
Published: May 15, 2026Duration: 1h 37m 42s
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
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Bloomberg article we discussed about podslop, featuring the chicken guy from Alabama
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Published: May 1, 2026Duration: 1h 23m 33s
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!
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Booking Tag
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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...
Published: Apr 24, 2026Duration: 1h 39m 15s
Episode 257: Slop Factory
Podcasting 2.0 April 17th 2026 Episode 257 - Slop Factory
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CI/CD Prompt Injection — Claude Code, Gemini CLI Credential Theft
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Fountain Flooding the API — 1.5 Million Hits in 24 Hours
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Feed Cloning Epidemic — Spam Flavor of the Moment
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Published: Apr 17, 2026Duration: 1h 32m 52s
Episode 256: Master of Disaster
Podcasting 2.0 April 3rd 2026 Episode 256: "Master of Disaster"
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Index API Under Bot Attack
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"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
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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 wi...
Published: Apr 3, 2026Duration: 1h 31m 57s
Episode 255: Snark Week
Podcasting 2.0 March 27th 2026 Episode 255: "Snark Week"
Adam & Dave Are joined by Nathan Gathright to discuss his latest project and writing
Nathan Gathright
Pod.Link
The Standards Innovation Paradox
Published: Mar 27, 2026Duration: 1h 27m 29s
Episode 254: Pop a TTermy!
Podcasting 2.0 March 20th 2026 Episode 254: "Pop a TTermy!"
Adam & Dave discuss chapter formats, who controls the final creative output and we dodge The Criddler!
ShowNotes
We are LIT
opencode
currycaster
rodecaster pipewire
Booking code - Alex Sanfillipo - podmatch.com
Transcript format reduction
Transcript Search
What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info
V4V Stats
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Published: Mar 20, 2026Duration: 1h 33m 46s
Episode 253: Dirty Fix
Podcasting 2.0 March 13th 2026 Episode 253: "Dirty Fix"
Adam & Dave are joined by Brendan from Podpage and they firs up the new podping gossip watcher
ShowNotes
We are LIT
Brendan Mulligan - Podpage
open-claw sucks
Running the podping gossip listener
Transcript Search
What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info
V4V Stats
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Published: Mar 13, 2026Duration: 1h 39m 5s
Episode 252: Joy Robber
Podcasting 2.0 March 6th 2026 Episode 252: "Joy Robber"
Adam & Dave say one man's slop is another man's pr0n. A discussion ensues
ShowNotes
We are LIT
AI Tag - rss.com
Apple Music launches AI transparency tags — but only if labels and distributors declare them
Investigate deprecation and removal of XSLT [435623334] - Chromium
Transcript Search
What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info
V4V Stats
Last Modified 03/06/2026 14:19:19 by Freedom Controller Â
Published: Mar 6, 2026Duration: 1h 33m 9s