The entire podcast industry runs on one tiny XML tag that nobody owns. The enclosure tag is why podcasting stayed open when everything else got platformed, and it's also why measuring an audience is so much messier than anyone admits. I cover where RSS and the enclosure tag came from, how Spotify…
You asked for a library and got a shopping mall. This episode digs into why search results slid downhill: crowded ad units, affiliate-heavy pages, and AI summaries that sound confident while averaging mediocre sources. I walk through the mechanics in plain English. Monetization reshaped the first…
Ever scroll past the same joke, the same cropped video, and replies that don't quite sound human? This episode digs into why the web feels hollow without buying the doomsday version. I frame dead internet theory like a signal problem: automation raised the noise floor, ranking systems amplified…
