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EPISODE 157-Podcasting Lessons Learned

https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2020/02/14/the-privacy-security-osint-show-episode-157/

[23:18.20] Let's talk about services,

[23:19.40] and this is where we can get into some anonymity things.

[23:21.92] There are a bunch of new companies

[23:23.76] that will allow you to host your podcast on their platform

[23:27.40] and then they will distribute your files for you.

[23:30.12] I have always used SoundCloud,

[23:32.16] but there are many others like Libson and Podbean,

[23:35.20] and there's all kinds.

[23:36.24] Do your research and see what you like.

[23:38.80] Let's first have a conversation about self-hosting.

[23:41.64] Yes, you could self-host your MP3 podcast files

[23:46.64] and you could create an RSS feed,

[23:51.04] self-hosted on your domain,

[23:52.56] which you could then send to Apple and Google

[23:54.64] and all the other players,

[23:55.72] and then they would add your feed to their platform.

[23:59.56] I don't recommend this unless all of the following apply.

[24:04.64] One, you are comfortable manually creating RSS feeds

[24:08.40] for podcasts.

[24:09.40] If you know how to do that, okay,

[24:10.76] you're already, you know what you're doing anyway.

[24:13.84] Two, you have a dedicated server,

[24:15.88] a shared hosting account through Namecheap

[24:18.32] or GoDaddy or something like that,

[24:19.92] will work fine for your podcast

[24:22.16] until you get several hundred listeners

[24:24.24] and then you might run out of resources

[24:25.92] and now no one can get your podcast.

[24:27.64] Personally, I would never consider self-hosting my own podcast.

[24:32.00] Half of that is because I don't want the responsibility

[24:34.84] of creating these RSS feeds.

[24:36.60] The other half is I would rather let a platform

[24:41.32] meant to host these files do the hosting for me.

[24:44.68] Again, I'm using SoundCloud,

[24:45.88] I think it's about 130 bucks a year,

[24:47.84] but SoundCloud's one of the very few

[24:51.56] that have a free tier.

[24:54.00] Most podcast hosts only have paid plans

[24:57.40] and you have to choose which level you want.

[24:59.24] With SoundCloud, your basic plan is free.

[25:02.00] It's very limited.

[25:02.96] You get three hours total of upload time,

[25:06.28] very basic controls, but you could do it.

[25:10.12] What I like is if you are considering trying out a podcast

[25:14.56] but you're not ready to commit,

[25:15.84] then SoundCloud would let you create it.

[25:18.32] You have up to three hours of shows

[25:20.52] you can upload with no cost, no commitment

[25:24.04] and you could use an alias name

[25:25.32] because there's no payment involved.

[25:27.24] That's one of the big benefits.

[25:28.68] From there, you would have to go to a pro-type plan.

[25:33.08] Again, I think it's a little over a hundred bucks a year.

[25:34.76] It's not crazy expensive,

[25:36.36] but it's all those expenses, of course,

[25:38.28] add up when you're trying to do these things.

[25:40.92] I've heard good things about Libson, L-I-B-S-Y-M.

[25:44.52] What I don't like about their pricing plans is

[25:46.40] it's based on total storage.

[25:49.24] So if I'm going to upload multiple hours a month,

[25:52.56] I might have to pay more than if I only upload an hour a month.

[25:56.20] That might actually be well for you,

[25:57.92] that all a cart type thing might be better.

[26:00.32] With Libson, you have to kind of decide

[26:02.52] how much am I going to upload, pick the appropriate plan.

[26:05.32] You can always upgrade if you need to,

[26:07.00] but that's kind of a pain.

[26:08.68] My concerns about SoundCloud,

[26:11.48] I've had two outages where I couldn't upload,

[26:13.84] I wouldn't process, it was errors on their end.

[26:16.12] And at the time when that was happening,

[26:18.12] I was very frustrated and I was looking for other providers.

[26:20.80] In hindsight, it was only down for a few days each time.

[26:23.72] It's not a huge deal.

[26:25.56] I guess it could be a huge deal if you have sponsors saying,

[26:27.80] "Hey, why is this show not out?"

[26:29.60] But for me, it didn't really matter that much.

[26:32.20] My bigger concern with SoundCloud is they've been saying

[26:35.24] for years that they're not making money

[26:37.04] and they're laying off people.

[26:38.32] And that gives me concern, however,

[26:41.12] being that we haven't seen it shut down

[26:43.56] or talk about shutting down,

[26:45.00] maybe they have their act together.

[26:46.96] I would do your research though,

[26:50.28] look into longevity, that's very important,

[26:53.92] because if I set up the podcast and Apple accepts it

[26:58.00] and I have the RSS feed entered

[26:59.68] and everyone's listening to it,

[27:01.32] but then SoundCloud shuts down tomorrow

[27:03.52] or whoever you're using shuts down,

[27:05.48] you now have to create a new RSS feed

[27:08.08] and resubmit that it can be done.

[27:10.32] It's just kind of a pain

[27:11.36] and you might lose some listeners that way.

[27:14.44] Not a huge deal, it can be fixed,

[27:16.64] but just things to consider.

[27:18.32] Overall, I'm happy now with SoundCloud

[27:22.92] and even with the large spikes of listeners I've seen,

[27:27.00] I've never noticed an outage or throttling of any sort.

[27:31.20] So I know they can take the load, if that makes sense.

[27:35.40] You can put show notes in your podcast feed

[27:39.56] through SoundCloud or wherever,

[27:41.20] but you should also have some type of website or blog.

[27:44.48] Personally, I would prefer something on your own domain,

[27:47.88] something you control,

[27:49.16] and I believe that you should replicate all your show notes

[27:51.32] on some type of web site,

[27:53.24] not just on the show notes portion of a sound file

[27:57.32] in an RSS feed.

[27:59.64] This could be a WordPress blog,

[28:01.84] it could be your own website.

[28:04.00] Sky's the limit here,

[28:04.96] I just think you should have that separate area.

[28:06.76] I have the blog section on my website,

[28:08.80] Intel Techniques.com,

[28:09.88] all of my podcasts are posted there as well as everywhere else

[28:13.00] and all the show notes are there as well.

[28:15.24] That allows it to be indexed by Google and everyone else

[28:17.84] and it allows people to have a search function on your site.

Reasoning as to why they prune old shows

EPISODE 287-Listener Questions, UNREDACTED 5, & OSINT 10

https://inteltechniques.com/blog/2023/01/06/the-privacy-security-osint-show-episode-287/

[20:22.30] - The most asked question, we'll start with that.
[20:25.02] And this is a question that is dear to my heart.
[20:27.74] Where are all the old podcast episodes?
[20:30.58] I actually emailed you about this when they disappeared.
[20:33.70] Where are they?
[20:34.82] - Are there some missing?
[20:36.66] - There are all of them missing.
[20:38.54] There are all of them missing.
[20:39.94] About from about a year ago onwards.
[20:42.74] - Yeah, we've been purging old episodes
[20:46.14] for a couple of years now.
[20:48.10] Typically what we do is once or twice a year we go in
[20:51.06] and purge everything over one year old.
[20:54.10] And the reason for that is twofold.
[20:55.90] First, we wanna be responsible.
[20:57.90] We don't want to have bad information out there.
[20:59.58] And there was some bad information.
[21:01.66] We've been doing the show for many years.
[21:02.94] So things that we've talked about in 2016, 2017,
[21:06.26] they not only might not apply to today, they might be wrong.
[21:09.30] And what was happening was,
[21:10.70] and this is the second part of that,
[21:11.74] we were getting a lot of complaints from people saying,
[21:13.50] "Hey, I listened to your show episode 14," whatever,
[21:16.46] from 2017.
[21:18.34] I did the thing you said,
[21:19.66] and then two years later I listened to another show
[21:21.62] or I listened to the show from two years later after that.
[21:23.70] You said that you shouldn't do that anymore
[21:26.02] and basically you gave me bad advice, I'm mad.
[21:28.90] So what we found was easiest was,
[21:32.46] let's just prune old shows
[21:34.38] because a lot of people are,
[21:36.22] they're taking old advice, which is not bad advice.
[21:38.42] It might have been good advice at the time,
[21:39.54] but now it's bad advice.
[21:40.58] Now they're applying these techniques,
[21:41.98] which I shouldn't be applying.
[21:42.98] And we just want to be responsible and say,
[21:44.82] "Let's don't allow bad information to be out there
[21:46.78] because a lot of people are following old stuff
[21:50.14] thinking that it should still apply."
[21:51.98] Now I think most people listening to the show
[21:53.58] know that if you listen to a tech podcast
[21:55.66] from five or six years ago,
[21:57.14] you don't put faith in everything you hear,
[22:00.66] but a lot of people were doing that.
[22:02.02] So we pruned them and we will continue to prune them.
[22:05.06] So I think right now the oldest show is October of 2021.
[22:07.86] I would anticipate by spring,
[22:09.54] we will probably go in again
[22:11.14] and we basically prune everything over a year old.
[22:13.94] I realized people don't like that,
[22:15.82] but we felt like it was the right thing to do.
[22:18.42] - So I understand the reasoning and it still breaks my heart,
[22:21.78] but we'll go on to question number two.

Sadly no. All platforms seem to be wiped of all episodes too.

Yeah it can be annoying, but they have bills to pay as well. Maybe you can bum a copy off someone or somewhere when it pops up.

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The invite link should be able to be used multiple times instead of only once.

Should be able to use the invite link below:

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