We Made It Weird #57

#783: The end of spoken conversation

Plus: Pandora Radio, birthday mania and the “perimenopause industrial complex”

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts

WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

Stream: Private Voice Ring — Notes, Chat, Dictation

Experience Stream — the private voice ring for everything on your mind. Pre-order today

Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...

Everyone knows your location

How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

If you work in or around the film industry, there is a decent chance you have used the work of The Numbers this month, whether you realise it or not.

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What started as a post-retirement hobby has led The Last DJ to runaway success and his first gig in 40 years. Now he's on a mission to inspire others to do the same

The $2.43 Billion Question: Podcast Advertising in 2024

An immersive data story exploring podcast advertising trends and the breaking point where ads drive audiences away.

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The Music Discovery Problem – The Frugal Blog

I’ve been chatting with a good number of folks who are turning down streaming services lately for various reasons. I’ve blogged about this before, and if you’re looking for advice on how to make the switch, I and a lot of others have said things about it in the past.