We write protocols, not products, and they can't hinge on one company
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We write specs, we write protocols, we write the things that publish the things that help people do the things we, we value, uh, features and, and new functionality.
Episode 201: Fugue State (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:33:29 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Podcasting 2.0 doesn't create products; it writes specs and protocols. (Dave doesn't even like calling them 'standards.') If something it writes ends up dependent on the good graces of a single company, person or entity, that isn't sustainable long term, which is what happened with Alby on the listener side.
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Episode 68: Mind the Gap! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:07:44 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
anybody can make products, no come and go. But the protocols we can see with local RSS, OPML, all the web, all the open web protocols, activity, pub, they all live forever.
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Episode 201: Fugue State (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:33:49 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
of the things that we write ends up completely dependent upon the good graces of, of a single company or person or entity, that's, that's just not a long-term sustainable thing.
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Episode 201: Fugue State (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:40:05 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
intentions of one single company. The, this, this to me is the way is the way forward, I think.
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