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james.crid.land
Passionate about audio. Lives in Brisbane. Podnews Editor - @podnews.net for headlines and more. I’m also on the fediverse - @[email protected] I am currently in "follow back" mode. https://podnews.net • https://james.cridland.net
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Meanwhile, Australian commercial radio - one of the most unpleasant and misogynistic radio markets in the world - excels itself once again. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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A tale of two sets of radio closures - one set in the UK, one set in Australia. One company respects its audience (and its people); the other despises them, by all appearances. My latest radio trends newsletter. james.cridland.net/blog/2025/tw...

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oh lord, I ended up having to write something about what's going on with Apple's Advanced Data Protection - what it is, what it does, and what happens now for UK users. www.ianbetteridge.com/apples-advan...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

One for @dannybrown.me @creativityfound.bsky.social - james.cridland.net/blog/2025/po...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Genuinely pleased at this. While Apple Podcasts probably won't acknowledge the part that this slide from the Podnews Report Card made, it can't have harmed the process of getting enough engineering resource to have fixed it.

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Oh my word. You probably knew this already @james.crid.land but just in case not...

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At a conference, listening to a foreign-language panel talking about how great AI is at translation. I’m sure the human translator, who I’m listening to in my ear, is finding it inspiring.

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Bluesky comments! podnews.net/update/tig-n... - half way down the page. Also uses the Podcasting 2.0 socialInteract tag, so it should also work with podcast apps in future!

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My latest radio trends newsletter. Big changes for international radio listeners to the BBC's stuff - but, long term, the right choice. james.cridland.net/blog/2025/bb...

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Are you a podcaster? Take the Podnews report card!! Help @james.crid.land make the podcast industry better. 👏 podnews.net/report-card

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Do you have feedback for some of the key players in the podcast industry? Now's your time to let them know what's up. Fill out the Podnews report card so that @podnews.net & @james.crid.land can analyze em and share them live at Podcast Movement next month. Here it is: podnews.net/report-card

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Looks like BBC Sounds is going away for international users. I'm not claiming I'm a radio futurologist or anything, but I did predict this in November. james.cridland.net/blog/2025/bb...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Over the last couple of days @james.crid.land has exposed (again) the fact that almost nobody in podcasting or radio has any idea how their own audience metrics work. The admission made in this follow-up piece is spectacular. podnews.net/article/aus-...

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

PODCASTS ON A PLANE Today's Podnews office. Newsletter written, podcast recorded and edited (though the audio is a little different today). Now watching it slowly upload. Technology!

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"63% of podcasts get over 100,000 downloads a month" in Australia, apparently. Um - no. No, they don't. I spot misleading numbers in a press release. Also, the podcaster who gets his guests to pay him, but doesn't tell his listeners. #makingfriends podnews.net/update/audio...

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

New! @james.crid.land talks podcast, radio … bit.ly/4aGY4p7

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"Embargoed until 10am UK time", says a release. The same company posts the news at 7.30am on its LinkedIn. This really isn't how embargoes work, so I've just broken it too, just like they did.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

My latest radio trends newsletter is out - looking at the Triple J #Hottest100 and Apple's new radio stations. And, oddly, London Live. james.cridland.net/blog/2025/tr...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

That new DeepSeek Chinese AI tool sure seems to know its stuff.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

What is this tree outside my window? I’m curious to know what the fruit is. Can anyone help? #Brisbane #Queensland #Australia

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Lots of research went into this. But it’s quite fascinating the apparatus that has been built to control content in (currently) China. Reposts welcome!

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Podcasters! Follow @podthenorth.bsky.social ! You won’t regret it!* * not guaranteed

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Found beer that is only for Linux administrators. Niche, BWS, but OK.

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