Daniel J. Lewis

Good news / bad news:

The good news is that my emergency bathroom repair is coming along nicely! (See photo!)

The bad news is that this has kept me from publishing an episode of The Audacity to Podcast this week. 😢

Reflecting on the PRESENT of Podcasting

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Think Outside the Box with the New Image Tag

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But whether you're behind it or in front of it doesn't depend on which way you're facing.

Think carefully about this one:

Should it be "behind the mic," or "in front of the mic"?

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PodChapters - Podcast Chapters with the power of AI The fastest, easiest, and smartest way to add engaging chapters to your podcast in seconds

New feature launched on PodChapters!

Apple Podcasts will support #Podcasting2.0 cloud chapters. But if you want to download the chapters Apple generates for you, you can now upload them into PodChapters to edit, embed in your MP3, and export the updated chapters.

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Beware These 7 Deadly Sins in Podcast-Hosting Providers - The Audacity to Podcast® There are plenty of great podcast-hosting providers, but some of them are committing podcasting sins that could make it harder for you to use them, or impair your podcast's performance.

Some podcast-hosting providers are committing #podcasting sins that could make it harder for you to use them, or impair your #podcast's performance. Beware these 7 deadly sins in podcast-hosting providers!

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PodChapters - Podcast Chapters with the power of AI The fastest, easiest, and smartest way to add engaging chapters to your podcast in seconds

It took me longer to write this thread than it did to transcribe, chapter, and tag my episode!

Try PodChapters yourself on your next episode for $0!

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This episode has 9 chapters, and they were all placed automatically for me from my outline. I briefly pressed Play on each chapter to double-check the timings and tweaked (with millisecond precision) only 2 of them.

Drake would probably want you to chapter your podcast with PodChapters!

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PodChapters™ Launches Modern, AI-Assisted Podcast Chaptering to Boost Engagement and Monetization

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In Soviet Russia, ChatGPT asks YOU how many R’s are in Stawberry!

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"Beware These 7 Deadly Sins in #Podcast-Hosting Providers" coming next week!

Make sure you're following The Audacity to Podcast to get this episode automatically!

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As much as I don't like to publicly call out my #podcasting colleagues for doing bad things with their products and services, I wonder if it might be necessary.

Tonight, my returning frustration is when hosting providers randomize episode URLs—path or filename.

Episode coming about this!

Since I've already downloaded two languages, I can only assumed Siri translated that helpful message from what was being said around me. Cool, right?

Live Translation on iOS 26 with AirPods Pro 2 is awesome! All I have to do is press and hold both earbud stems to get a deafening sound and then have Siri tell me, "To use Live Translation with AirPods, you'll need to download languages to this iPhone."

PodChapters - Podcast Chapters with the power of AI The fastest, easiest, and smartest way to add engaging chapters to your podcast in seconds

This Monday is the official public announcement of my new tool for #podcasters, PodChapters™. It's the fastest and smartest way to add engaging chapters!

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Please let me know if you'd like the press release to add to your #podcasting industry coverage, or to republish.

I'm watching YouTube videos about toilets.

This is what my life has become.

My parents are proud of me.

Due to emergency home repairs, there's no episode of The Audacity to Podcast today.

But in the meantime, hear me talk about audience engagement in this episode of Leverage Your Podcast, with Lyndsay Phillips:

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You ARE chaptering your podcast episodes, right?

Try PodChapters free to make chaptering your #podcast easier, smarter, and faster than ever before!

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ChatGPT and other "AI" / LLM (large language model) tools should end all their free options.

Everyone should either pay to use the tools, or cover the cost to run them on their own hardware.

Prove me wrong. 😃

Which Is Higher Priority: Audio, or Video? - The Audacity to Podcast® In a world that can't correctly define a podcast anymore, there's a new obsession over and pressure to publish video. But if you are able to publish both audio and video, which should actually be your priority?

Whether you're already publishing both audio and video for your #podcast, or you're thinking of making them both part of your #podcasting workflow, which one is actually more important?

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Is it just me, or have Apple's latest OSes made AirPods Pro auto-device-switching even worse?

Which Is Higher Priority: Audio, or Video? - The Audacity to Podcast® In a world that can't correctly define a podcast anymore, there's a new obsession over and pressure to publish video. But if you are able to publish both audio and video, which should actually be your priority?

In a world that can't correctly define a #podcast anymore, there's a new obsession over and pressure to publish video. But if you are able to publish both audio and video, which should actually be your priority?

Find out here!

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PodChapters - Podcast Chapters with the power of AI The fastest, easiest, and smartest way to add engaging chapters to your podcast in seconds

Because of how much faster PodChapters has made my transcription, chaptering, and tagging #podcasting workflow, I often feel like I'm forgetting a step.

Oh yeah, I am! All those multiple steps across multiple apps that I don't have to use anymore!

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Props to Freebird! They responded to my warranty request email blazingly fast and they ordered a replacement for me all within about an hour!

Possible new headshot. What do you think?

It looks like I'll be growing hair again, at least until Freebird replaces my broken head shaver under their 3-year warranty.

Sorry, due to sickness, I couldn't get an episode of The Audacity to Podcast out today. I'll be back next week!

In the meantime, you can hear me on the latest episode (#237) of #Podcasting2.0! podcastindex.org/pod...

I'm live on the #Podcasting2.0 show today to talk about #podcast chapters and PodChapters!

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