Question, best-practice #ux #webdev #seo people.
A job ad that has closed. It's no longer linked from anywhere. The page still exists. I currently return the full text with an "HTTP 410 Gone" header, and an error that you can't apply any more.
Should this be an HTTP 200 OK response, rather than a 410 Gone? The page exists, after all. Wondering if too many 40x results is a bad thing.
Tried to open a Lightning channel two months ago, using Lightning Terminal (which doesn’t give you any control over the sat/vB fee).
Here it is, stuck in the backlog of more than a quarter of a million transactions; and at just 20.1 sat/vB, it seems unlikely to ever get to the front of the queue.
Bitcoin’s the future, let’s not forget.
https://mempool.space/tx/59d695758ac821bc40a396f61da0483126e8f1ffe60e4b64c228dc8086bf1d21
@5ae428fe Bonjour! For caniemail.com I am successfully using the AUDIO tag in email. https://podnews.net/article/html5-audio-tag-in-email is a full write-up of the feature.
Since it (can be) entirely backwards-compatible, either disappearing altogether or with an alternative offering, I wonder how I might update https://www.caniemail.com/search/?s=AUDIO with a little more detail? At the very least, is it worth adding a "resources" link, is there a way to add more detail?
@a9800be2 I think it’s there so that they can offer CNN’s on-demand programming within Binge. I suspect that you have to have the live channel in your product to be able to offer on-demand programming, for rights reasons. There is no EPG and logos are deliberately black/white, so as to not be a direct replacement for Foxtel.
I have a Fetch box (I upgraded it yesterday to a newer unit) for live TV. For $6 a month, for the channels I want, it’s pretty good value; and lots of on demand too.
If you have access to Binge, they have added CNN, Bloomberg and MSNBC to it as of today (live). Useful to know, given the US elections are coming up (and Foxtel, who own Binge, have exclusive access to CNN in Australia). As with all these things, the existence of live channels in Binge is relatively hidden, and it’s there for rights reasons, to allow them to offer on-demand shows. /1
@6211bb94 Algorithms like engagement, so this will ensure this Xitter account appears in more feeds next time they post something.
Particularly endemic in the podcast world, where there are about three or four large organisations forever posting "What's your favourite show?" or "When did you start listening?" to drum up some form of algorithmic goodness.
Note: Mastodon is free of such nonsense.
Question - for @b92dcc07 or anyone. I'm told that Google Search is very bad now and I shouldn't be using it. What should I be using, then? Is there a "good" search engine? I've not been too impressed with any I've seen really, but what should I be trying?
Hmph. This week has seen changes for my desktop with a new Mac OS Sonoma, and for my phone this morning with a new Android 14. Quite a lot of things not quite where I left them; the cognitive load is quite a lot.
Today - Podnews on a plane (if you're getting the audio version). It'll be available in the next fifteen minutes; I can't upload it from the inflight wifi, it turns out - that bit is very bandwidth-constrained. As you'd expect, really.
The right choice to leave the quite dull airport hotel and go for a walk. This is The White Hart in Harlington (a place I've never heard of before without the addition of "Hayes &" in front of it). It serves a very good fish and chips, and London Pride. Thanks to Qantas for my meal tonight. #travel #delay #compensation
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/111/161/457/166/269/522/original/365bb94f7e900ce9.jpg
Listening to a podcast on a plane between Greece and the UK. The ad breaks are all in German.
The wifi is run by T-Mobile and is presumably tunneled via there.
@Terence Eden’s Blog I do like this philosophy. It's something I've tried to do for @6f677cee - still work in progress. I'm especially fond of the `<time>` elements, which have little JavaScript code to display the date the culturally-correct way for the reader (and the correct time for them). Moving to Australia sure has taught me about timezones!
There are benefits you've not mentioned - not least, speed of pageload, and also Google SEO benefits (it loves semantic code).
@2b3df152 It does. They need to repeal every law. And they've not repealed this one.
(Thankfully, the Qantas rules on the website say "EU and the UK").
@fce803cc@17d1d904 Similar to what I'm being asked to pay for reproducing some shitty Anchor podcast's thumbnail. They've gone very quiet. I hope I've managed to convince them to go away.
@4e7c3231@8714de25 I see about five websites who use my (full-feed) RSS feed to copy my stuff, cover it with ads, and reproduce it on their shitty website.
Sometimes I put Easter eggs in the RSS feed to learn the IP address of the scraper, so I can feed that website different content. Relatively simple to do, and easy to put most undesirable content on their website.
@a9800be2@fce803cc YouTube *will* ingest the RSS feed - but as far as I understand it, won't take any video in your RSS feed, just the audio.
You *can* host video podcasts on PodToo, and then have them show on Spotify. But you need to upload the video tracks manually in Spotify.
Big gamble for #Brisbane-based 4BC #radio - no more Ray Hadley. And, Ray doesn't even get to say goodbye.
Ray is #1 in his slot, so I wonder how much of this is a vanity "live and local" play - it clearly isn't driven by audience figures, unless, of course, Ray's demographics are out of kilter of the station's.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/111/083/079/108/307/609/original/69d5e8bcaf2a589c.png
I learn that this also replaces all of Ray Hadley across Queensland; across the many stations that take it. Big news for Brisbane radio, at a time when consolidation is the thing, rather than localisation.
Big gamble for #Brisbane-based 4BC #radio - no more Ray Hadley. And, Ray doesn't even get to say goodbye.
Ray is #1 in his slot, so I wonder how much of this is a vanity "live and local" play - it clearly isn't driven by audience figures, unless, of course, Ray's demographics are out of kilter of the station's.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/111/083/056/243/271/437/original/4ac4a2cf08f5a1ee.png
@7dfc084c My goodness, yes. A 7° winter here in Brisbane sounds like bliss, until people realise that our houses are made of cardboard and it means 7° inside. Never been so cold!
@4d809b9a@2fd7551e Podnews posts new things to @6f677cee here. That's not a WordPress plugin (more custom code), but I *think* it does the same kind of thing?
@4d809b9a@2fd7551e Podnews posts new things to @6f677cee here. That's not a WordPress plugin (more custom code), but I *think* it does the same kind of thing?
@fce803cc in the Podcasting 2.0 podcast you mentioned that you thought I run a "all remoteItem playlist" podcast. I do - it's https://podnews.net/sitemap/trailers-ri.xml which is a remote-item version of Podnews's podcast trailers feed.
Hey @fce803cc and @6a75920f - I've just done another random music show thing (from the chart!) It turns out that Hindenburg's "music report" gave me the timings I needed to make the manual XML much simpler to create (but I've no chapters though).
Of potential note - the remote items sometimes overlap. That should be valid, since sometimes you can play more than one track at the same time...
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6558785
For some reason, we have the BBC Earth channel free at the moment (on Fetch). Watching a documentary about the sun. Couldn’t quite work out what’s different about it, but have dimly realised that it’s a science documentary being presented by two women, and almost all the specialists they interview are women, and that’s a bit different to the BBC documentaries of old.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3402322/
@1ecb9e32@d050de92 It doesn't really work that way.
If you spend $2mn to advertise a service and you get 50,000 subscribers, then you've spent $40 to get each customer.
Excluding marketing, if you normally make $50 profit per year from a customer, then you make $10 profit in the first year after acquisition costs - but $50 profit in the second year.
So you can drop your charges $20 for the customer in year 2, and *still* earn more profit than a new customer.
@6a75920f@fce803cc@916a3200@a1e52b69 It's the hierarchy for all podcast apps (or should be)
1. Respect the user
2. Respect the creator
3. Respect those who pay for it (if not #1 or #2)
4. Respect the network (the pipes/tubes/services/directories)
The creator's wishes should come second to the user's wishes in an ideal world.
@a1e52b69@916a3200 I bet a sensible app could spot the presence of a timed value split, see that the original remote item is music, and drop the speed down to x1. Seems a programmable setting, and not a thing that needs a new field in the RSS.
@d050de92 Boringly, what it really means is that they've made enough money from you to cover the cost of customer acquisition, so they actually earn *more* profit from you than other subscribers from hereon in, even if they drop the cost.
Finding customers like you costs money; but it's cheaper to retain you as a customer than to replace you with a new customer.
@27e07846 I was trying to keep my voice down. But yes, that's "been in the air for over 24 hours, with only two layovers of less than 45 minutes" voice.
@2fd7551e Nice! Insulation tape appears to do much the same thing. My Philips television allows me to turn the LED off in the settings, but it's otherwise an appallingly bad television so don't take that as a recommendation.
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