TEH 154: Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda’s.

In This Episode: Spotify tech. Can we balance stories? Censorship, audio quality and payment. Wordle Shoulda’s.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:07 — 51.2MB)

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Top Stories

• 0:17 GR: The Spotify thing… Neil Young vs. Spotify.
  • 3:31 What makes this different: Exclusivity, subscription model,
  • 6:27 Their business model makes it different than Apple Podcasts. Podcasters not tied to each other.
  • 13:00 Censorship misunderstandings.
  • 14:00 Creating balanced stories, can’t balance falsehood with truth.
• 20:15 LN: It’s bigger than vaccines
  • 21:50 Audio quality (compression) lowers quality of audio. Neil Young on the quality.
  • 25:20 Alternatives: Amazon Music Unlimited, but Spotify’s selection is huge. Apple?
  • 26:40 Brene Brown: Pausing podcasts – Spotify response, moderation rules.
  • 29:30 TEH podcast is in numerous places.
• 30:16 LN: Sony picks up Bungie. Gaming is important.
  • 32:20 Metaverse… immersive with VR goggles.
• 33:00 GR: Wordle! Shoulda been me… web based games suddenly come back.
  • 37:00 The keyboard
  • 38:00 How it accidentally(?) positioned itself for virality. (And the New York Times, apparently.)
  • 39:00 Ease of sharing (competitive)
  • Wordle 227 3/6 (Boxes are characters in a string of text)
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    🟨🟨🟩⬜🟩
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  • 41:00 Do a Google search for Wordle… not in app store, be careful.
  • 42:00 Wordle anger from the non-Wordles.
  • 43:00 ONE WORD – ‘initially’ – is pissing people off.
  • The New York Times Buys Wordle – Will NYT put it behind a paywall?
• 44:56 One word a day… how to monitize it.
• 46:00 GR: How to cheat… but why?

Ain’t it Cool

• 47:55 LN: Bobba Fett.
• 49:14 LN: (And, for the geeks, Windows has it’s own SSH server – from Microsoft, no less.)
• 51:00 GR: “Termination Shock” by Neal Stephenson. (Why wasn’t I targeted?)

BSP: Blatant Self-Promotion

• 54:34 LN: How Do I Turn Off BitLocker on a Drive? Surprise encryption!
• 56:10 GR: How To Troubleshoot iPhone Auto-Correct Problems