7 entries
Podcasting
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Trevor L Taylor hosts the podcast Hard Truths for a Soft World, and the entries in this cluster explain the medium his show belongs to: how podcasting began, how RSS feeds carry episodes, why long interviews hold audiences, how video changed the form, how listening is measured and where shows are found. The name itself was floated in a newspaper report on cheap audio tools and portable players, in The Guardian. A single serialized show later proved the medium could reach millions, The New York Times reported, and many hosts have since moved toward conversations that run for hours, Bloomberg noted.