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Podcasting 2.0 - Episode 266: Research Velocity
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- WGKM
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- Jul 24, 2026
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- 5629
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Podcasting 2.0 July 24th 2026 Episode 266 - "Research Velocity" Show Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM PREP.md — Adam's PC20 items Pod News — podcast app revenue (source for 'cut the apps into the money') Pod News — the ad-skipping player Board Q (Adam): "If you go to another chapter, is that a new play?" — for the AMP play=30s definition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 00 - DAVE'S WORLD: THE ALTERNATE ENCLOSURE FINALLY GETS PICKED UP + HLS-IN-RSS SURGE Take the lap: Podbean and Buzzsprout are now testing/supporting the alternate enclosure — letting other apps (Pocket Casts, Amazon Music, iHeart, TrueFans) reach the video/alt versions instead of everything vanishing into the Apple-only void. Lead the boardroom with the namespace win. HLS video in RSS is accelerating: @js — "the rate of podcast hosts publishing high-quality video in podcast feeds using HLS has gone up quite a bit, thanks mostly to Transistor and Flightcast." The open path is winning adoption; watch it live. Namespace repo status: attribution bylines merged for the block and alternate enclosure tags (PRs #772/#773). Quiet week on commits — the plumbing is holding. Dave in the wild: on the LLM-vs-tags thread — "A 'weight' is just a form of heuristic. Regression is literally built into the LLM at a fundamental level. Re-weighting a model will always regress other weights." (Continues the on-device-AI vs authored-tags fight from 265.) Also: Hover auto-renews domains 2 days out — @genebean's alert script gets a Dave thumbs-up. HLS-in-RSS tracker (livewire) Dave Winer — distributable is not distribu…