Here’s the link you can use to subscribe in your favorite podcatcher: http://boffosocko.com/kind/listen/feed/
Perhaps one day I’ll do more with feed validation and submit it to various distribution channels to make searching/subscribing easier, but since I’m not really “promoting” it as anything other than a means of discovery (or extreme stalker behavior) I won’t take the time now.
As I think about creating “want” posts in the near term, perhaps I’ll create a feed of want-to-listen-to items as another discovery channel option as well. In some sense, this is how I use my Huffduffer.com account. It has a subscribe-able list of audio items I want to listen to at some point in the future. Since I can add my Huffduffer feed (or those of others) to my podcatcher, it helps enable me to easily get the content to my phone or other devices to listen to a variety of new things. There’s no reason not to do all of this on my own site explicitly.
Now if only podcatchers could support micropub for more easily creating scrobbles or “listens”…
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Favorited Huffduffer by Jeremy Keith (huffduffer.com)
I tell almost everyone I know who’s into web audio and podcasts how much I love Huffduffer.
While the site does a pretty good job of describing itself and the fact that it has a wonderful bookmarklet, I’ll also point out that Ryan Barrett has a video bookmarklet for it that “extracts the audio from videos on YouTube, Vimeo, and many more sites and sends it to Huffduffer.”
If you’re a podcastaphile, it’s a de rigueur tool. While I publish a listen feed on my website, you can also follow me on Huffduffer if you wish. If you’re using it, do let me know so I can add you to my “collective”. This will let me find the great audio you’re discovering.
I should tell Jeremy Keith more often I love that he runs this little service: Thanks for making the world so much brighter!
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It’s like your own last.fm on your own website.
I’ve actually got an experimental site up and running that takes the data from my last.fm account using https://github.com/acegiak/WP_LastFmScrape and posts it to a WordPress install. I still need to work on the UI and add some additional functionality so it doesn’t overwhelm my primary site. As a result I have yet to fold the functionality and the saved data into my primary site.
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Oh wow. I gotta know how you get twitter at-replies to appear as comments. Is this a manual copy-and-paste? Or some sort of system?
Sorry, Matt, I’m just seeing this now. Not sure how I missed it originally unless there was such a huge bunch of responses on the site that your comment got scrolled further back than I managed to catch up with. It’s been a busy month and change.
In any case, replies via Twitter (and similarly Google+, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, and even GitHub) are done courtesy of a lot of the IndieWeb technology underpinning my site. I’ve documented the Twitter specific portion in the past, but the others are done very similarly once you’ve got Twitter working: http://boffosocko.com/2017/04/15/mentions-from-twitter-to-my-website/
If you want to extend the functionality and UI a bit you might also try this on for size: http://boffosocko.com/2017/12/24/adding-simple-twitter-response-buttons-to-wordpress-posts/
Apologies again for not having seen this sooner.
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The iTunes podcast feature has been so buggy for me, I’ve been looking for a new podcast routine. I’ll give Hufferduffer combined with feedly. I’ll subscribe to all my favorite podcasts via feedly. Then every couple days, I’ll go through feedly and select which podcasts I want to add to Hufferduffer–which then will populate my phone with audio with the Downcast app.
I’ve got an experimental site up and running that takes the data from my last.fm account using github.com/acegiak/WP_Las… and posts it to a WordPress install. I still need to work on the UI and add some additional functionality [more…]boffosocko.com/2018/03/08/pod…
Earlier in the week I noticed how well reading.am dovetailed with Huffduffer. Now I’m noticing that my listen posts (aka my faux-cast) also now translate to micro.blog’s podcast discovery page. The secret to this seems to be having an .mp3 file in a post that feeds across. I do notice at least one post without an .mp3, but which includes the word “podcast.” Are there any other criterion for this @manton?
I wonder if there’s a way for more posts to display the inline audio player without being hosted directly by micro.blog?
micro.blog’s podcast discovery page
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Earlier in the week I noticed how well reading.am dovetailed with Huffduffer. Now I’m noticing that my listen posts (aka my faux-cast) also now translate to micro.blog’s podcast discovery page. The secret to this seems to be having an .mp3 file in a post that feeds across. I do notice at least one post without an .mp3, but which includes the word “podcast.” Are there any other criterion for this @manton?
I wonder if there’s a way for more posts to display the inline audio player without being hosted directly by micro.blog?
micro.blog’s podcast discovery page
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Some suggestions for extracting audio only podcast-friendly feeds for one of my favorite shows.
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Episode 3: Syndication
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Summary: Facebook has recently announced it will be shutting off its API access on August 1st for automating posts into its ecosystem. For a large number of users this means it will be much more difficult to crosspost or syndicate their content into the platform. As a result, this week David Shanske and I discuss the good and the bad of this move as well as some general thoughts around the ideas of syndicating content from one site to another.
David also discusses plans he’s got for changes to both the Bridgy Publish Plugin and the Syndication Links Plugin.
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Related Articles and Posts
New Facebook Platform Product Changes and Policy Updates
Bridgy Publish for Facebook shuts down in August by Ryan Barrett (#)
Buffer responds to syndication question, but then checks itself (#)
I’m done with Syndication. Let’s help people be themselves on the web. by Ben Werdmuller (#)
Deprecating and Replacing Bridgy Publish for WordPress by David Shanske (#)
Resources and mentions within the episode
ThinkUp (#) — (my instance is still up,though no longer working!)
BBC Audio Archive (#)
IndieNews a community-curated list of articles relevant to the IndieWeb (#)
WordPress Indienews a plugin to automatically send mentions to IndieNews (#)
Convoy a syndication tool for WithKnown (#)
Faux-casts (#)
Related IndieWeb wiki pages
crossposting
POSSE
PESOS
Manual until it hurts
Brid.gy Publish
Related WordPress Plugins
Bridgy Publish Plugin
SNAP
JetPack
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Replied to Tracking my podcast listening by Henrik Carlsson (Henrik Carlsson’s Blog)
It’s interesting to see someone else tracking what they’re listening to. I try to include the .mp3 or other audio files in my post with proper markup to create a faux-cast of sorts that others can subscribe to. Somewhat like reading.am, I find that discovery of podcasts by seeing what others are actually listening to is far more valuable than what they simply say they’re listening to.
I’m hoping that podcast apps like Overcast by @marco might support technology like webmention and micropub in the future to make some of this stuff a bit easier as well as more valuable.
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Replied to Collaborative resource curation by Jon Udell (Hypothesis)
It isn’t rocket science, but as Jon indicates, it’s *incredibly *powerful.
I use my personal website with several levels of taxonomy for tagging and categorizing a variety of things for later search and research.
Much like the example of the Public Radio International producer, I’ve created what I call a “faux-cast” because I tag everything I listen to online and save it to my website including the appropriate <audio> link to the.mp3 file so that anyone who wants to follow the feed of my listens can have a playlist of all the podcast and internet-related audio I’m listening to.
A visual version of my “listened to” tags can be found at https://boffosocko.com/kind/listen/ with the RSS feed at https://boffosocko.com/kind/listen/feed/
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This is web thinking in action.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2011/01/24/seven-ways-to-think-like-the-web/
Well done!
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As I was reading through some of the subscriptions in Aaron Davis’ well-curated blogroll which I’m subscribed to via OPML Subscription in Inoreader, I was reminded that I should be following my own Huffduffer Collective. This is a feed of audio that comes from all of the accounts I’m following on Jeremy Keith’s awesome Huffduffer audio service. For those looking for a great method for discovering new and interesting audio content and podcasts, this is by far the best discovery service I know.
While finding content which others have bookmarked is an excellent discovery mechanism, I think that finding it by means of things they’ve actually listened to would be even more powerful. By saying you’ve listened to something, it means you’ve put some skin in the game and spent some of your own valuable time actually consuming the content and then separately posting about it. I wonder how Huffduffer might incorporate this sort of “listen” functionality in addition to their bookmarking functionality? I can’t help but thinking that more audio applications should have Micropub functionality for posting listens.
Here I’ll remind people that my website provides just such a feed of my own listens, so if you want to hear exactly what I’ve been listening to, you can have your own feed of it, which I call my faux-cast and you should be able to subscribe to it in most podcatchers. I do roughly the same thing for all the things I read online and off as well. I may bookmark something as interesting, but you know it was even more valuable to me when I’ve spent the time to actually listen to or read it from start to finish.
Do you have a listen feed I could subscribe to? Perhaps a Huffduffer account I should follow? How do you discover audio content online? How could this be used in the education technology space?
@smokey @simonwoods I find that many larger podcasters are using third party platforms for hosting and distributing their podcasts. Many of these often use JavaScript trickery to hide the actual audio file of their episodes. Along with Cory Doctorow, I’ve complained about this before. There’s a link in there with a Cory tweetstorm that has some cluse for how to find mp3 files for podcasts using iTunes.
Others have recommended one of my favorite tools: Huffduffer. It’s got a couple useful bookmarklets that will help to find audio files as well as Ryan Barrett’s Huffduff-Video bookmarklet.
Another service I like is Listen Notes, which has a podcast search functionality and will point you directly to RSS feeds which will also uncover audio files a bit more easily.
I found many of these to help create faux-casts on my own website of things I’ve listened to.
A podcast is an episodic series of audio and/or video posts that can be subscribed to and downloaded for offline listening/viewing.
I usually think not a wit about SEO and web stats/traffic with respect to my personal website, but a recent WordPress notification about an unusual spike in traffic got me thinking.
In the past, I’ve very often posted some social bookmark-type posts of what I read, watch, and listen to online. They’re usually of a very small microblog or linkblog sort of nature and have very little intrinsic value other than to people who may want to closely follow this sort of minutiae to see what I’ve been interested in lately.
Recently I noticed that there’s been a 4-5 fold increase in web traffic to my site, so I thought I’d take a look and it turns out that I’m getting some larger than usual numbers of visitors to my site for an article I bookmarked as having read three years ago.
Here’s a list of the top ten most highly trafficked pages on my website over the past year.
The top post with almost 18,000 views in the last year is essentially a link to an article I read about gaslighting in 2018 which includes a brief reply context (reminder) of what the original post is about. The next two are slightly differently named links to my homepage for a total of 6,500 views followed by an article I wrote about TiddlyWiki (1,500 views). Articles I wrote about commonplace books, my furniture hobby, and my about page are also among my native content in the top ten.
However a watch post about How to Buy a Velomobile (1,310 views), and read posts about configuring an iPhone (I don’t even own one) (654 views) and an article about opinions and fact checking in the Houston Press (619) round out the bottom of the list.
I don’t know what to really think about these short bookmark posts accounting for so many views or that my site ranks so highly in terms of SEO for some of these oddball topics (look at the mnemonics and commonplace aficionado calling the kettle black).
I’m wondering if I should look at my little widget that recommends content and begin to narrow it down to more of my own native content? Should I tamp down on content I was tangentially interested in at some point but don’t really care about or want to rank on? Gaslighting and fact checking are interesting broad topics to me, but velomobiles and iPhones really aren’t. Of the tens of thousands of things I’ve linked to, why should these stick out in particular? I get that there’s probably only a limited number of people writing about velomobiles, but the others?!?
It does make me wonder if other IndieWeb site owners have experienced the same sort of quirky behavior? What implications might this have on SEO if more of the wider web was taken over by personal sites instead of corporately controlled silos like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? I’m sure there are other great questions to be asked here. Brainstorming of ideas, answers, and implications are encouraged below.
A scrobble (AKA a listen) is a passive type of post used to publish a song (music or audio track, including concert recordings or DJ sets) or podcast that you have listened to.