Marco Arment

Marco tells the story of how he became a Mac enthusiast, indie app developer and tech podcaster, covering his work on Tumblr, Instapaper, Overcast and Accidental Tech Podcast, among other projects. He also explains why he thinks it's so important to maintain the open Web and podcasting through RSS, in the face of more exclusive publishing platforms and audio hosts. Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (producer) Find Marco at marco.org. Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text. Links and Show Notes The Stronghold of Podcasting 00:00:00 This Week in Tech (TWiT) This Week in Tech (podcast) MacBreak Weekly The Word Nerds (Archive) Tumblr You Look Nice Today Ricky Gervais The Ricky Gervais Show Stack Overflow The Stack Overflow Podcast Joel Spolsky Jeff Atwood Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) CD-R MP3 CD player iPod The iPod Video was the fifth generation of a product line that is now collectively referred to as the iPod Classic. iPhone This American Life COVID-19 pandemic Audiobook Cable television Leo Laporte AM broadcasting Talk radio Self-taught 00:09:11 Videocassette recorder (VCR) Microsoft Paint BASIC 3-2-1 Contact Magazine was an American educational television show about science that aired on PBS from 1980 to 1988, with an adjoining children's magazine, and which can now be found in the Internet Archive. Windows 3.1 Disk operating system (DOS) MS-DOS QBasic Visual Basic (classic) C (programming language) Unix Solution stack Sun Microsystems Scalable Processor Architecture (SPARC) SPARCstation Solaris Segmentation fault Mac (computer) IBM PC compatible (now more of a historical term that relates to our current usage of the term ‘Windows PC’) Vivísimo Yippy (originally developed and released as ‘Clusty’) Computer memory Version control Software bug Tumblr 00:20:24 Craigslist Tumblr Software development Indie (disambiguation) West Coast of the United States Amazon (company) Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg Technology Davidville David Karp PHP Shard (database architecture) Twitter Content management system (CMS) Microblogging (The first micro-blogs were known as ‘tumblelogs’.) Myspace (formerly known as MySpace) Facebook LiveJournal WordPress (content management system) A Great Time to Be a Mac User 00:33:02 Apple, Inc. Desktop computer Windows Update Digital Visual Interface (DVI) Vim (text editor) Terminal emulator Linux Server (computing) Ruby on Rails TextMate MacBook (2006–2012) PowerBook G4 A Better Audience 00:38:13 Web development 5by5 Weblogs, Inc. Engadget Gizmodo Lifehacker RSS News aggregator (or in certain cases or implementations, RSS reader) Digg Reddit Hacker News Dan Benjamin Instapaper iPad Build and Analyze was a weekly news and discussion show about technology by Marco Arment and Dan Benjamin, which can now be found in the Internet Archive. YouTube Overcast (app) Merlin Mann John Siracusa Accidental Tech Podcast 00:49:43 Neutral Casey Liss Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) Membership program Relay FM John Roderick (musician) Overcast 00:58:16 Overcast Overcast (app) (further information) Music (software) (The app to which Marco refers was originally known as the iPod app on iPhones.) Downcast (app) Android (operating system) Pocket Casts Apple Podcasts Stitcher App store App Store (iOS/iPadOS) TikTok Instagram Proxy server How the Internet Is Supposed to Work 01:05:06 World Wide Web Web standards (redirecting from ‘open Web’) Decentralisation Comcast Verizon Communications, Inc. UUNET Internet Protocol (IP) Walmart Monopsony Google Amazon Kindle Spotify Trade magazine Eddy Cue Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion Contact Website: rsspod.net Email: [email protected] Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld A Special Note Martin is a paid subscriber of Marco Arment’s shared membership program for Accidental Tech Podcast; this did not influence any of the questions that were asked and did not place any expectations on Marco as a participant of this academic podcasting project.