{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Josh Withers, the group chat", "icon": "https://micro.blog/joshua/avatar.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://joshwithers.blog/", "feed_url": "https://joshwithers.blog/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/03/16/palmsy-is-amazing.html", "content_html": "
Palmsy is amazing.
\nA cute little social network just for you with fake likes and notifications from your friends.
\nWe should all tell our parents that this is the new Facebook.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-16T09:22:44+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/16/palmsy-is-amazing.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/03/12/like-many-amateur.html", "content_html": "\nLike many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing. I wanted to express my apologies for any confusion the family photograph we shared yesterday caused. I hope everyone celebrating had a very happy Mother’s Day. J.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-12T09:10:07+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/12/like-many-amateur.html", "tags": ["Interesting","Photography"] }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/03/09/if-this-photo.html", "content_html": "If this photo I made ten minutes ago excites you, you’re going to love this real estate listing for our home.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-09T12:15:05+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/09/if-this-photo.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/03/08/a-lovely-qantas.html", "content_html": "A lovely Qantas flight attendant yesterday asked me if I was Josh Withers, at which point I prepare myself to say yes and have a chat to her about a wedding of mine that she attended or how she saw me on TV, like the D-Grade celebrity fool I am.
\nBut no, she goes on to say how my wife is lovely and amazing. The flight attendant was planning to get married and was considering eloping so she ends up on the phone with Britt talking about eloping with The Elopement Collective.
\nAnyway, Britt really is all that and more, you know.
\nI was planning on singing her praises today anyway but I’ve opened up the old social media today and found it to be International Women’s Day, so it’s an even better reason to scream her name from the rooftops.
\nNot only is she the best person in my world, plus she made me a father of two of my other favourite humans, but Britt also spends countless hours each week counselling the brides and grooms of Australia about getting married, whether they should elope or not and whether or not we’re the best place for them to do that.
\nI’ve always said the thing about being remarkable is that remarkable people are easily remarked on, you are able to remark on them because their talent, beauty, smarts, intelligence is so easily witnessed.
\nYou’re remarkable, Brittany Withers.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-08T22:45:05+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/08/a-lovely-qantas.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/03/04/prediction-wedding-photography.html", "content_html": "Prediction: Wedding photography is about to undergo a massive change.
\nThe people who hold cameras like\nFuji/Sony/Canon/Nikon need to figure out how to get their JPEGs right in camera.
\nThey might still deliver a cull of 30 odd photos a week or three later, but the expectation is moving to fast turnaround.
\nThe lovely iPhone holding kids - content creators - will fade away as professionals figure out how to deliver in minutes instead of months. Or maybe they don’t fade but they take up the bottom end of the marketer.
\nThe added benefit is that because of the increased efficiency, wedding photographers will be able to take on more work. Where a wedding might have been five to ten days work, so you would be limited to maybe 30-40 weddings a year, accounting for seasonal influxes, now that same photographer might take on double the work to achieve same pay, effectively reducing the price of wedding photography because it requires less energy and effort.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-04T21:17:55+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/04/prediction-wedding-photography.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/03/01/im-fast-realising.html", "content_html": "I’m fast realising that my only real talent in this world is being the member of the conversation who can provide the comedic exit of the conversation before we play a guitar riff, the station call sign is aggressively voiced by an older male, then five minutes of ads is played whilst the listener changes radio station.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-01T12:10:18+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/03/01/im-fast-realising.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/29/i-asked-readers.html", "content_html": "I asked readers of my Aisle Authority daily letter to the best celebrants in the world what they thought about the length of the daily email letter … the winner was the third of the Goldilocks bears
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-29T11:47:53+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/29/i-asked-readers.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/27/new-favourite-website.html", "content_html": "New favourite website: fontreviewjournal.com
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-27T14:19:40+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/27/new-favourite-website.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/23/im-thoroughly-convinced.html", "content_html": "I’m thoroughly convinced that email can be a meaningful method of communication, relationship, community, and entertainment in the future. I’ve always been proud of what my friend @james@bne.social is making at @podnews.net so reading this article by Guy Tasaka encourages me in my little prophetic thought.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-23T07:31:49+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/23/im-thoroughly-convinced.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/21/the-ceo-of.html", "content_html": "I have a deep appreciation for newsletters. They say everything old is new again. Today, with an almost overwhelming amount of information we must sift through on news sites, social media and third-party aggregation sites, like Apple and Google News, it’s nice to have information curated and summarized for me and delivered to my inbox. That kind of sounds like a newspaper.
\n
The CEO of the biggest supermarket chain in Australia is stepping down because no other news media dared question an advertiser.
\nThis is the strength and power of listener/reader supported media, and the strength of publicly funded media.
\nYou can’t lose an advertiser because you asked good questions, because you aren’t reliant on, or don’t have, advertisers.
\nOur reluctance to individually fund good journalism are part of the reason our groceries are so expensive, that and because we’re too lazy to shop around, or better, buy local food from local producers.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-21T10:49:54+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/21/the-ceo-of.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/20/matt-ruby-on.html", "content_html": "Matt Ruby on metadata:
\n\n\n“Is metadata really that powerful?”
\n
\n\n“OK, let’s say there’s a guy who texted a girl 5 times without getting a reply. Would you need to actually read the messages to know what’s going on there?”
\n
\n\n“Nah, I 100% get what happened.”
\n
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-20T21:20:22+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/20/matt-ruby-on.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/18/i-find-reading.html", "content_html": "“That’s the power of metadata.”
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I find reading the news depressing but I still want to get an idea of what’s happening in the local news so I made an AI bot that writes the daily Tasmanian news headlines as a poem: tas.lol.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-18T15:06:01+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/18/i-find-reading.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/17/hobart-sunset-high.html", "content_html": "Hobart sunset - high res download for any Apple Vision Pro users, and direct link to the 360 photo on Panoraven and direct link to the 360 JPEG in case it works?
\nIt would be super cool to see how these photos can be interacted with and enjoyed on an Apple Vision Pro.
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-17T21:38:43+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/17/hobart-sunset-high.html", "tags": ["Photography"] }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/15/levelling-up-in.html", "content_html": "Levelling up in nerdom is running your own AI/LLM on your own hardware.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-15T22:22:33+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/15/levelling-up-in.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/15/a-unified-theory.html", "content_html": "\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-15T13:52:08+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/15/a-unified-theory.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/14/ideas-to-build.html", "title": "14 ideas to build and grow a podcast network today", "content_html": "The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give.
\n
I recently had the opportunity to express my interest in a field I’ve never officially worked in, for a company I’d never worked for, in an industry I’ve been out of for over a decade: audio, more specifically, audio on-demand, or as we’ve called it for twenty years, podcasting.
\nI didn’t make it past expressing interest for the position but my application - in the form of audio on demand - was “one of the most creative submissions I’ve seen/heard” said an ABC executive, which I sincerely appreciate, but my fire and passion for podcasting/audio on-demand has now been given oxygen - after over a decade of self-employment I applied for the job intending to get it.
\nSo, I wanted to at least document my thoughts here on my blog, and then open source them, release my thoughts to the greater podcasting public.
\nMay these gathered thoughts help or inspire you to succeed in the field, even if you got the job as Head of Audio on Demand for the ABC ;)
\nSo much credit to friends for hearing me talk about podcasts and this job in particular so much, but also credit to industry leaders I’ve either been lucky enough to call friend, or have watched esnrestly from afar, like Cameron Reilly, James Cridland, and Scotty McDonald, and then Marco Arment with Overcast and ATP, plus Myke and Stephen of Relay FM who have been doing lots of this for a while already.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-14T20:29:00+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/14/ideas-to-build.html", "tags": ["Internetting Better"] }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/14/ive-just-found.html", "content_html": "I’ve just found out - through hearing it - that the Disney cruise ship horn blows the tune “When you wish upon a star” in port and now I feel all magical and whimsical.
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-14T17:01:33+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/14/ive-just-found.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/11/tracy-chapman-luke.html", "content_html": "Tracy Chapman & Luke Combs at the Grammys singing Fast Car
\n", "date_published": "2024-02-11T08:35:23+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/11/tracy-chapman-luke.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/10/issues-into-my.html", "content_html": "10 issues into my new daily letter to the best wedding celebrants in the world, Aisle Authority, and it’s feeling good.
\nShoutout to my Swede and Hong Kong readers!
\naisleauthority.email to subscribe
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-10T08:02:30+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/10/issues-into-my.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/02/08/seriously.html", "content_html": "Seriously
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-02-08T12:14:59+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/02/08/seriously.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/01/31/noone-asked-but.html", "content_html": "No-one asked but if I was a wrestler my walk-out music would be In The Shadows by The Rasmus
\n", "date_published": "2024-01-31T10:38:50+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/31/noone-asked-but.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/01/31/for-those-of.html", "content_html": "For those of us that know Internet Explorer 4.0 was the GOAT, a reflection on the Geocities, marquee rage, dial-up Internet era, the 90s on the web, by Zach Holman
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-31T10:37:59+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/31/for-those-of.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/01/27/ive-written-the.html", "content_html": "Have you ever shoved a
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into a<marquee>
tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. A person capable of great innovation. A human being that all other human beings could aspire to. You were a web developer in the 1990s.
I’ve written the first seven issues of my new daily email letter for wedding celebrants: Aisle Authority.
\nI’m writing for the North American wedding officiants and celebrants that contact me every day, but Aussies and well honestly anyone, is welcome to jump on board.
\nwww.aisleauthority.email is the place to subscribe if you want to be the best damn wedding ceremony creator in the world.
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-27T11:57:46+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/27/ive-written-the.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/01/27/for-those-of.html", "content_html": "For those of us that know Internet Explorer 4.0 was the GOAT, a reflection on the Geocities, marquee rage, dial-up Internet era, the 90s on the web, by Zach Holman
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-01-26T22:19:04+11:00", "url": "https://joshwithers.blog/2024/01/27/for-those-of.html" }, { "id": "http://joshua.micro.blog/2024/01/24/took-a-peek.html", "content_html": "Have you ever shoved a
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tag? Pixar gets all the accolades today, but in the 90s this was a serious feat of computer animation. By combining these two tags, you were a trailblazer. A person capable of great innovation. A human being that all other human beings could aspire to. You were a web developer in the 1990s.
Took a peek at a peak across the Remarkables today
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