{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Office Hours","home_page_url":"http://www.officehours.hair","feed_url":"http://www.officehours.hair/json","description":"A podcast for the community of Jupiter Broadcasting, the Open Source media powerhouse of the Internet. Get the inside scope on our projects, the future of independent media, and decentralized community.","_fireside":{"subtitle":"Let's build the future of podcasting together.","pubdate":"2023-12-13T12:45:00.000-08:00","explicit":false,"copyright":"CC Attribution + Noncommercial + ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA) by Jupiter Broadcasting","owner":"Chris Fisher","image":"https://media24.fireside.fm/file/fireside-images-2024/podcasts/images/5/5359b045-c3ec-4bb4-8e0d-5d98a374de56/cover.jpg?v=2"},"items":[{"id":"cba10bb9-c341-4d9f-8794-aa33394f4a6f","title":"36: Alby's Home for the Holidays ","url":"https://www.officehours.hair/36","content_text":"A special edition of Office Hours explains why some Podcasters are seeing a 20% drop in downloads. Plus, Moritz from Alby joins us for a chat.Special Guest: Moritz Kaminski.Sponsored By:Send us a Boost w/a new Podcast App: Send a boost into the show, try out a new app, and help keep podcasting independent. Join the Party! The Jupiter Membership Party: Join the party and get exclusive content. Links:⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Send a boost from the web; just Get Alby, top it off, and start boosting!🎉 Office Hours on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.Moritz Kaminski — Contributing to an open value layer for the internetThe company asking podcast directories for money — A copyright enforcement company is sending bills to podcast directories for reproducing thumbnail images from RSS feeds.Annual re-certification now required by IAB — The updated pricing is: Member: $12,500 (new) / $6,250 (renew); Non-Member: $17,500 (new) /$8,750 (renew)Notice: Updates to Automatic Downloads - Apple Podcasts for Creators — Before iOS 17, when a listener would unpause automatic downloads, the system would automatically download all unplayed episodes. With iOS 17, Apple Podcasts will not download previous episodes and will resume automatically downloading new episodes.Tracking the impact of the auto-downloading changes to Apple Podcasts in iOS 17 — Let’s take a look at the Apple Podcasts listeners to OP3, an open prefix service tracking over 10 million downloads a month from over 1000 shows of various types, so a nice small sample to work with.Faidr — Our technology removes those annoying interruptions and lets you replace them with the audio content you actually want to hear.Auddia Announces Commercial Free Podcasting Enabled by Proprietary New AI Technology to be Launched in the faidr App on January 15 — 200 top podcasts will be available for ad-free listening upon launch, representing upwards of 50,000 episodes.Auddia Announces Commercial Free Podcasting to be Launched in the faidr App on January 15 — In June of 2023, the Company announced that its engineers had successfully combined Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its proprietary AI audio-classification algorithm to create a new model that could be applied to podcasts.The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years — In this report, we show how the number of users, transactions, and volume have been\r\naccelerating significantly over the past years. We also share some River-specific insights\r\nand discuss significant growth accelerators for the Lightning Network.Kevin Rooke on X — The average public Lightning Network channel is approaching 8 million sats of capacity now.Coming in 2024 — V4V based, multiply redundant object store with decentralized CDN for PeerTube self-hosters. Removes 99% of the bandwidth costs of media hosting, as well as the storage costs of online hosting.SeaweedFS — SeaweedFS is a fast distributed storage system for blobs, objects, files, and data lake, for billions of files! Blob store has O(1) disk seek, cloud tiering. Filer supports Cloud Drive, cross-DC active-active replication, Kubernetes, POSIX FUSE mount, S3 API, S3 Gateway, Hadoop, WebDAV, encryption, Erasure Coding.V4V SHOW | Mere Mortals — What will digital content look like in 5 years time? In Ep#56 we're going to rehash everything we've learned this season, lay out my predictions for what is ahead of us and learn how you can help shape the future direction of this very podcast.Music: Santa's In Town - The Top Hats OrchestraMusic: A Charlie Brown Christmas - The Top Hats OrchestraMusic: Sleigh Ride - The Top Hats Orchestra","content_html":"
A special edition of Office Hours explains why some Podcasters are seeing a 20% drop in downloads. Plus, Moritz from Alby joins us for a chat.
Special Guest: Moritz Kaminski.
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Wes visits the office to chat about some new podcast tech inbound, Google killing their Podcast app, and Chris' story from his morning with Podfans.
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We're testing a new Podcasting 2.0 feature and need your ears!
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Behind-the-scenes details of a new show in the works, our thoughts on a new genre of Podcasts bursting onto the scene, and we make JB history live on the show.
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Chris and Brent are running with scissors and breaking things again. From the website to YouTube, how we broke just about everything this week.
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A quick Pocket Office from "the field" on the new tech inbound to Office Hours and a big update on our bounty for episode 34!
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Why independent media is getting just as bad as mainstream media, and Brent's escape from a wildfire.
\n\nPlus, an update on our new bounty release format!
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We've got a radically new format idea for Office Hours and want to tell you all about it.
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We share some recent adventures, and the tale of how water got dumped into Chris' new home server.
\n\nNote: this episode was recorded on the 15th of June.
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We travel 10 years into the future and report back on how podcasts and Jupiter Broadcasting are doing after all those years.
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We look back at some classic JB shows and chat about why they ended.
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Have you noticed there is a podcast for everything? That's all about to change. Our thoughts on why the podcast market is going bust this year.
Special Guest: Michael Tunnell.
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A change is in the air.
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Brent shares some rip-roaring tales from Berlin, and we introduce the new contributor who can publish to production.
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Disaster strikes the studio, and Chris jumps into action while Brent battles the packet wars of 1996.
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The crew takes on a new challenge this week. How hard could it be? Very. Plus, the major open source issue we've zeroed in on.
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We throw Office Hours into the middle of our biggest beta test yet!
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We blow the lid off a secret project and get LIT.
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If you've noticed something a little off about your favorite podcasts, we might know why.
\n\nPlus some big Podcasting 2.0 endorsements and adoption.
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We're kicking off some new projects, catching up with old friends, and react to a new podcast app that automatically skips ads.
Special Guests: Alex Rodriguez and Stefan Schulte-Ortbeck.
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We have some big plans for 2023, and we share the next steps to fully host our podcast infrastructure.
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We challenged ChatGPT to create a Linux news podcast outline and then put it to the test.
\n\nPlus, a live Ask us Anything and we answer some tough questions.
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The worst part about being a Podcaster; our pitch to eliminate nearly all holidays and some hard questions.
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Why LBRY was never going to win, and how they have just screwed all crypto. And a new feature in the works for our listeners by our listeners.
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We recap a busy night after a studio power outage, then dig into what makes an open-source project worth contributing to. Why do some fail while others grow and prosper?
\n\nPlus, our thoughts on Pocket Casts going open source and the media winter we're preparing for.
Special Guest: Alex Rodriguez.
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It was one technical disaster after another, we recap the series of technical challenges that killed all future shows from the road.
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We get you caught up on one heck of a trip.
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Brent recounts a harrowing near miss on his road trip to the studio, and a surprise outage leaves Chris scrambling after launching the website.
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We're pushing our new website to production live on the show today. We have no idea how things will turn out - but we're taking you along for the ride either way!
Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.
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We've built up some incredible backend infrastructure for our new website. We run through the big improvements, and where we still need some help.
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Why we hate crypto more than you, plus a frank conversation about boosts in our shows, some big lessons learned from our new website project, and the things we'd never do again.
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We're learning on the job this week as the deadline for our new website is just around the corner. Plus, a dirty little secret that explains why most tech press coverage sucks.
Special Guest: Stefan Schulte-Ortbeck.
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The community is quick at work; we share major updates on our new website project, and chat with the "Official" Podcasting 2.0 consultant to find out what he's developing next for podcast listeners.
Special Guest: Alecks Gates.
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Outdoor networking adventures, new decentralized tools we're building, and a great chat with one of the co-founders of Podverse - an impressive open-source Podcasting 2.0 app.
\n\nPlus, a surprise live unboxing of HP's Dev One Linux laptop.
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We have a laugh at Spotify, then check out a minimum viable project for the new Jupiter Broadcasting website.
Special Guest: Stefan Schulte-Ortbeck.
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We've made some essential decisions for our big projects, what really has us excited about Podcasting 2.0, and the real problem with Boosts.
\n\nPlus Chris figured out one of Brent's secret flaws!
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It's a summer of projects, we get into our plans to totally rebuild our website, some new Podcasting 2.0 features and, Brent takes his first bite of the Raspberry Pi.
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We kick off a new show and chat about the rapid centralization facing the podcast industry. Then we share some secret future Jupiter Broadcasting plans, answer your questions, and more.
\n\nIt's Office Hours with Chris! Join us for a beta run of a new series officially kicking off next Tuesday.
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What is the enthusiast trap, and why does it seem to ensnarl every successful open source project? Also, some excellent listener power user tips for NextCloud.
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