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Amazon takes on podcasting with Audible Channels, featuring original audio content
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FreeMix: Music. Liberated. For the open web.
For producers, DJs, and artists across every genre. Upload, share, and remix with purpose-built music licenses. No ads, no algorithm. Free to join.
Cory Doctorow: IP
You’ve probably heard of “open source software.” If you pay attention to the politics of this stuff, you might have heard of “free software” and even know a little ab…
VoxPort (@voxport.bsky.social)
-Working on VoxPort: ATProtocol–driven platform where podcasters truly own their voices. -Building for independence, discovery, and community. -If you’re a podcaster, dev, or just curious about open media - let’s connect.
On open-science research labs on discord, and getting more people.
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On the BBC Annotatable Audio project… – plasticbag.org
This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. It was developed by the BBC Radio & Music Interactive R&D team – for this project consisting of myself, Tristan Ferne, Chris Bowley, Helen Crowe, Paul Clifford and Bronwyn Van Der Merwe. Although the project is a BBC project, all the speculation and theorising around the edges is my own and does not necessarily represent the opinion of my department or the BBC in general.
A pocket full of personal software - Bailey's Retrospective
A year-ish spent building software I want, the way I want with *in a low voice* llms
Charlie Deist on Twitter / X
My hobby: scraping entire podcasts into open source wikis.Then decomposing them into skill.md files, articles, and short books for my personal consumption only.https://t.co/1hKjJICJ16Then rebundling the skills into topic-specific pluginsSo much gold to mine. pic.twitter.com/T2h8DYIcEj— Charlie Deist (@chdeist) April 3, 2026
Bad Gear - I tried my best to HATE IT