My Small Steps Towards A Better Personal Network
As the Social Network Megacorps’ motives and morals following the US elections change for the worse, I’m looking at the choices I have to take back control of my content where I can.
Occasional Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
As the Social Network Megacorps’ motives and morals following the US elections change for the worse, I’m looking at the choices I have to take back control of my content where I can.
Sirius XM may be closing the popular Stitcher app, but the app should be congratulated for using open standards that make it easy to move your subscriptions to another podcast app.
Spotify is looking to ‘provide more tools to people who are producing podcasts’. I have a simple solution that will help everyone. Embrace RSS.
Spotify’s latest moves will keep podcast listeners away from the wider online community that has embraces podcast’s open nature.
It might not be easy to see, but Apple’s exclusive podcast still uses open standards and isn’t locked into iCloud.
While a bundle of start-ups and incubators are ‘on crunch‘ to finish the betas of their replacements for Google Reader, there’s probably one bit of software that could do the job even better than Google Reader. GCHQ and NSA must have some really good RSS plug-ins for reading websites. If we’re going to ignore the implications of the data trawling, could we at least benefit from the code that our taxes paid for?