Scott Willsey

Really Specific Stories

Scott discusses his long history of listening to Apple-centric podcasts and what it has been like to co-host and produce his own podcasts. He also asserts the importance of accessibility and the benefits of listening to (and even being part of) a minority, citing lessons from the podcast Parallel and his childhood experience as an American living in Japan. Last, but not least, he asks us all to be more intentional in our media consumption and turns the tables in this very podcast.

This is the final episode of Really Specific Stories to be tied formally to a podcast case study in the PhD project.

Podcast case study: Parallel (listener)

Find Scott at scottwillsey.com.

Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.

Links and Show Notes

Podcast Voice 00:00:00

• Hemispheric Views
  • Jason Burk
  • Andrew Canion
• Mac Geek Gab
  • Dave Hamilton
  • Pilot Pete
  • Adam Christianson
  • John F. Braun (former co-host)
• iPod 5th Generation (with Video)
  • The iPod Video was the fifth generation of a product line that is now collectively referred to as the iPod Classic.
• MacCast
• Mac (computer)
• Compact disc (CD)
• Daily Source Code was a podcast by Adam Curry, which can now be found in the Internet Archive.
• Podcast Pickle
• Friends with Brews is the podcast that Scott mentions producing with Peter Nikolaidis.
• This Week in Tech (TWiT)
• Grammar Girl
• Mur Lafferty
• GarageBand
• Gaijin
• Audio Gaijin
• Kagoshima

What the Listener Wants to Hear 00:14:35

• Apple Inc.
• Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP)
  • The ‘ATP guys’ are Marco Arment, John Siracusa and Casey Liss.
• Vermont
• Boston

This Stuff Does Matter to People 00:23:01

• Artificial intelligence (AI)
• Mastodon (social network)
• Parallel
• Shelly Brisbin
• Accessibility and more specifically, computer accessibility and Web accessibility
• Imposter syndrome
• Visual impairment (including more precise references to blindness and low vision)

Enjoy the Learning Process 00:30:49

• Fear of missing out (FOMO)

Be Intentional 00:37:24

• The ‘1x train’ to which Scott refers is the shared preference of many podcast listeners to listen to audio at its original speed, rather than accelerating it or relying on algorithmic features to save time.
• AirPods
• YouTube

Turning the Tables 00:45:05

• Micro.blog
• 000: International Mac Nerds is the pilot episode of Hemispheric Views and was originally featured in episode 39 of Lounge Ruminator.
  • Andrew Canion’s guest appearance in episode 28 of Lounge Ruminator, which led to discussions of doing a podcast together
  • Announcing Hemispheric Views on Feld Notes through Micro.blog

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: [e-mail]
• Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld
• Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld