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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by el_cujo on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:12PM (#19220612)
>I'm actually worried that podcasts are going the way of the web. What, for a while, was a weird world of enthusiasts talking about things that interests them seems to be morphing into a world of a few big corporate entities calling the shots.

I think podcasting is somewhat shielded from this by the fact that you really don't need an insane amount of capital to put out a good product. There definitely are podcasts that have expensive, professional studio set ups, but there are others I've listened to that are just straight up recorded on an iPhone and they can actually sound very decent. This low barrier of entry makes it easy for people to make their own weird podcast without having to water down their product and pitch it to investors. I guess with time that could change if your podcast is considered dead if its not on one of these big corporate channels. As someone who really enjoys the "homemade" feels, I hope this never happens, a podcast feeling overproduced is a big turn off IMO.

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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by celeritascelery on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:45PM (#19220849)
> I think podcasting is somewhat shielded from this by the fact that you really don't need an insane amount of capital to put out a good product.

You could say the same thing about the web

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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by ip26 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:11PM (#19221009)
And aren't there plenty of interesting personal blogs out there?
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by eterm on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:25PM (#19221118)
And it then comes back to content discovery. It doesn't matter what is out there, it matters how easily you can find the niche rather than the corporate.
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by njarboe on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:51AM (#19223624)
Websearch on only non-corp websites. Human curated to prevent gaming the corp filter. I'd pay $5/month for that.
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by differentView on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:31PM (#19222328)
Are there? How do I find them?
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by username223 on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:36AM (#19223378)
Hyperlinks, RSS, and a bit of routine maintenance. When you stumble upon an interesting article, subscribe to the author's feed. If you lose interest, unsubscribe. You will eventually end up with the information source you want.
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by hunter2_ on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:34PM (#19223158)
This is the crux of the issue. Either someone (perhaps the owner) tells you, or you ask someone who knows. The former is distinct from discoverability, so that's out. When you ask though, you want to ask someone who knows lots of things, which is likely to be corporate (major search engines).
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by gdy on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:50AM (#19223437)
When you google a question that interests you and find an answer in a blog, you see if there are more interesting stuff there.
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by gnopgnip on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:40AM (#19223926)
Link aggregators.
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by chrisco255 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:29PM (#19222616)
Medium
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by rmrfrmrf on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:47PM (#19222414)
Twitter
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by sarcasmOrTears on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:07AM (#19224026)
Don't worry, when podcasts get popular enough the goverments worldwide will find a way to use "regulations to protect consumers" to slowly make podcasts possible and profitable only if you are a big business. Just like it's happening with websites.
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by azemda on Friday February 22, 2019 @04:17AM (#19224055)
>Just like it's happening with websites

What is happening with websites?

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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by zizee on Friday February 22, 2019 @05:45AM (#19224380)
Not the commentor that you are replying to, but they are possibly a referring to the EU's GDPR laws that went into effect recently.
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