Some general stuff.

“Your book changed my life.” I was at a WordPress conference in 2014, about a year after my first “real, live, on the bookshelves” book, Responsive Design with WordPress, came out, when an attendee came up to me and told me this. I had never spoken to them — in-fact, they weren’t even from the……

My latest piece for The Podcast Host is up; I look at Sounds Profitable’s The Creators survey and what it means for the future of podcasting:

Published in late June, The Creators is a research study from Sounds Profitable, in partnership with Edison Research, that sampled data from 617 U.S.-based weekly podcaster listeners who currently produce, or have ever produced, a podcast. They are all age 18 or older and are a subset from Edison Podcast Metrics, which gathers data from 8,000 podcast consumers per year…In other words, it’s the first credible study that gives us a good look at who podcast creators are and how they work.

Read the whole thing here

My new favorite call recording app, Radiant, just published their 12 days of shortcuts, featuring my shortcut on podcast show notes: The shortcut listens to the conversation and generates everything a podcaster needs: a tight summary, timestamped chapters, editing cues, and a polished episode description.  It even pulls out standout quotes worth highlighting. Check out…