<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<opml version="2.0"><head><title>PC20-278-2026-11-13</title><state selectedPath="0/4" scrollY="0" /><expansionState>1,14,16,20,25,31,33,46,53,60,71</expansionState></head><body><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Podcasting 2.0 November 13th 2026 Episode 278 - &quot;1 Billion Tokens!&quot;&lt;/b&gt;" _expanded="true"><outline text="Microsoft 365 went down worldwide this morning, and Dave has questions. Two days after Brave started selling search to robots for USDC on Base, value for value gets a USDC value block: one signed payment pays the whole split, with the boostagram on the chain and no node to keep online. The lookalike report now has its own page in the Index's public data, and James counts five hosts on his code of practice. The apps list grows every day, and the scrapers never sleep." /><outline text="On the docket: the Microsoft outage and the lifeboat, V4V in USDC, the lookalikes and the code of practice, Fountain and the value block shim, the apps flood, the Muse loop, and the API pricing question." /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;The only boardroom that has room in the lifeboat for everyone&lt;/b&gt;" /><outline text="I'm Adam Curry in the Heart of the Texas Hill Country" /><outline text="&lt;i&gt;And in Alabama, the man who blocked the Podigee flood and is still fighting scrapers wearing his own user agent -- Say hello to my Friend on the other End — Dave Jones!&lt;/i&gt;" /><outline text="Download the mp3" type="link" url="https://op3.dev/e/mp3s.nashownotes.com/PC20-278-2026-11-13-Final.mp3" /><outline text="Podcast Feed" type="link" url="http://mp3s.nashownotes.com/pc20rss.xml" /><outline text="PodcastIndex.org" type="link" url="http://PodcastIndex.org" /><outline text="Preservepodcasting.com" type="link" url="http://Preservepodcasting.com" /><outline text="Check out the podcasting 2.0 apps and services newpodcastapps.com" type="link" url="http://newpodcastapps.com" /><outline text="&lt;i&gt;Support us with your Time Talent and Treasure&lt;/i&gt;" type="link" url="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=m0z6N1K047lEsGvPDr3KMumKYHlUHRAdwPNY645UB0LR9fGf_OtpVByzHId7TEFYo9nXNS5aF33Zdjn9&amp;fromUL=true&amp;country.x=US&amp;locale.x=en_US" /></outline><outline text="Positioning"><outline text="The Podcast Index is here to preserve, protect and extend the open, independent podcasting ecosystem." /><outline text="We do this by enabling developers to have access to an open, categorized index that will always be available for free, for any use." /><outline text="Try a new podcast app today and see how much better the experience can be." type="link" url="http://newpodcastapps.com/" /></outline><outline text="&lt;b&gt;ShowNotes&lt;/b&gt;" _expanded="true"><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" /><outline text="00 - 💥 MICROSOFT GOES DOWN — AND THE LIFEBOAT" _expanded="true"><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Adam's prayer:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Today I call on the Holy Spirit to guide the dudes named Ben and the dudettes named Bernadette who are feverishly working to solve the Outlook and Office 365 outages. Also for those who are fielding unhappy calls in companies and enterprises worldwide. Give them strength Lord and let them know that they are valued.&quot;" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave, 13 Nov:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Microsoft has spent 100's of billions of dollars on data center capex the last few years, and &lt;b&gt;it doesn't have enough available capacity to handle its baseline service obligations for something like email&lt;/b&gt;. This company deserves to be asked some tough questions. But we all know that won't happen.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117608859798605434" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave, 13 Nov:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Why did they mention 'defense-in-depth' would be in the post-mortem after saying the outage wasn't caused by malicious activity?&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117609144743128880" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;csb:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Microsoft global outage! Even InTune is down.&quot; JS posted the r/microsoft_365_copilot thread &quot;When will Copilot revive?&quot;" type="link" url="https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft_365_copilot/comments/1xv4fh8/when_will_copilot_revive/" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Adam's lifeboat:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Microsoft outage spurred me on to build a local lifeboat system in case and when Anthropic goes down. Of note is the 'act as' agent function.&quot;" _expanded="true"><outline text="What it is: an emergency agent on Pi, running a local Qwen model on Adam's own servers. No cloud needed. It can check and restart his systems, and &quot;/act as&quot; lets it take over another agent's job." /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;The test:&lt;/b&gt; acting as Showrunner Sam, it pulled the clip embedded in a news page and cut it into two clips with Sam's scripts. Adam: &quot;It did it 95% accurately.&quot;" /></outline><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave, 8 Nov:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Fighting scraper bots the last 2 days. It's endless.&quot; Then: &quot;&lt;b&gt;It's fun to see your own user agent scraping your site from ip addresses you don't own.&lt;/b&gt; [sigh]&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117581391561541601" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave, 12 Nov:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Bots don't fly here&quot;: &lt;b&gt;United Airlines restricts AI agents from booking flights&lt;/b&gt; ahead of holiday travel." type="link" url="https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/article/bots-dont-fly-here-united-airlines-restricts-ai-agents-from-booking-flights-203943442.html" /></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" /><outline text="01 - 💵 VALUE FOR VALUE IN USDC — SAME TAG, NO NODE" _expanded="true"><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Adam, 13 Nov:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Demo of usdc stable coin sent through our normal value block tag as a boostagram, from one app that has no server component, to a podcaster's boost box which also has no server component, just straight value for value transfer with splits and the message carried with the payment. To be discussed in today's board meeting.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@adam/117610176997176852" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;currycaster.com/v4v-usdc — the short version&lt;/b&gt;" type="link" url="https://currycaster.com/v4v-usdc/" _expanded="true"><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Same tag:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;podcast:value type=&quot;usdc&quot; method=&quot;eip3009&quot;&gt; with valueRecipient addresses on Base (eip155:8453:0x...). Same split rules, same fee=&quot;true&quot;, same boostagram fields as the Lightning TLV record." /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;One signature, one transaction:&lt;/b&gt; the listener's phone wallet signs once. The app's fee wallet submits it and pays the network fee, but cannot change it. A public split contract on Base pays everyone, or nobody, and writes the message on the chain." /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Nothing online to receive:&lt;/b&gt; Boost Box is a wallet on the podcaster's phone. It reads boosts from the chain when you open it. &quot;If the podcaster's phone is off for a month, the boosts are waiting.&quot;" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;vs. Lightning:&lt;/b&gt; dollars stay dollars; no failed splits (&quot;one payment per recipient; some fail&quot;); messages are public and permanent, so anyone can count them; cash out by sending to Coinbase. The wallet key is made in Android's hardware key store and never leaves the phone." /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;For apps:&lt;/b&gt; keep your value block parser and split code. Where you sent a keysend per recipient, sign one USDC payment. &lt;b&gt;For podcasters:&lt;/b&gt; add one line with a Base address." /></outline><outline text="🔍 &lt;b&gt;For Dave:&lt;/b&gt; does the Index need anything for type=&quot;usdc&quot; (the value API, the shim, the podcasterwallet)? Who else will read it, Fountain and Helipad?" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Brave, 12 Nov:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;The Brave Search API now accepts agentic payments via the x402 protocol.&quot; No API key: an agent pays per query with a CLI wallet. &lt;b&gt;Brave runs its own facilitator accepting USDC on the Base blockchain&lt;/b&gt;, &quot;with other networks and other stablecoins incoming soon.&quot;" type="link" url="https://brave.com/blog/search-api-agentic-payments/" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;The red split, again:&lt;/b&gt; csb sent $15.23 (20k sats) last week, &quot;but one split is red&quot;. The bitcoin price is down from $80k to $70k. He asks Dave to read last week's unread boost, a promo for the Keeper show: &quot;worth over $15 back then but now 'only' $14.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@csb/117606269706261319" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;merryoscar, 3 Nov (Dave boosted):&lt;/b&gt; &quot;&lt;b&gt;fountain has removed all references to value blocks added via the podcastindex value block shim / podcasterwallet.com&lt;/b&gt;. For a show to be payable from fountain it must have a value block directly in the rss feed.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@merryoscar/117553341142180095" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Helipad (ericpp):&lt;/b&gt; LNClient adds LND and CLN support · issue #168 &quot;Combined splits&quot; · #169 (ChadF) &quot;Fountain's fractional value_msat_total still reads as 0&quot; · #170 &quot;Add boost gifs&quot; · PR #171." type="link" url="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/helipad" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;PNWR, 13 Nov (39:36):&lt;/b&gt; James: &quot;&lt;b&gt;the podcast funding tag is our secret weapon&lt;/b&gt; here... the button can say whatever you want it to say.&quot; Sethi (40:15): &quot;&lt;b&gt;Micropayments 1.0 hasn't succeeded. I think 2.0 will come back into vogue&lt;/b&gt; at some point when the technology is simpler for people.&quot;" type="link" url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/20117890" /></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" /><outline text="02 - 📻 CURRYCASTER — THE CLEAN FEED, AND THE MUSE LOOP" _expanded="true"><outline text="&lt;b&gt;CurryCaster is out, free.&lt;/b&gt; The guest room is $9.99 a month for up to eight guests, with processing for each guest that it remembers by name. Clean Feed's CEO wrote: &quot;for the first time today, I had a customer ask about Currycaster.&quot; About 200 installs so far, and over $2,000 in value for value." type="link" url="https://currycaster.com/" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;aegrumet, 1 Nov (Adam boosted):&lt;/b&gt; &quot;@adam's muse driven recommendation loop is super compelling. But it requires server side data collection... The Wherever-ish way to do it is webhooks: distributed by design.&quot; He drafted a spec. Adam replied: &quot;&lt;b&gt;the reverse is more interesting to me, where my muse managed 'life' determines what it recommends.&lt;/b&gt;&quot;" type="link" url="https://docs.wherever.audio/webhooks/" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave, 13 Nov: &quot;Told you so.&quot;&lt;/b&gt; Overcast adds Smart Skip, which skips ads, for premium users. Adam: &quot;this is what Dave Jones, the pod sage, predicted would happen. And the first one is over the fence.&quot;" type="link" url="https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1xutg5w/smart_skip/" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;csb's interview with Adam&lt;/b&gt; is up (1:15, chapters): &quot;Adam Curry: From Inventing Podcasting to Reinventing It with Agentic AI&quot;. csb: &quot;I thought AC will demonstrate me one AI tool... for 18 minutes... he jibber-jabbered for 1 hour 15 minutes.&quot; Adam: &quot;the most views so far on your channel! Imagine that, from a non-coder no less!!!&quot; He also asks Adam to revive the Daily Source Code." type="link" url="https://youtu.be/h8CFnRtZl6Y" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Sethi on PNWR (16:09):&lt;/b&gt; Meta's Muse now has voice and video chat, and Meta wants it to feel human. &quot;We did not want it to become humanized... &lt;b&gt;Adam calls his robot for the very reason that he does not want it to be anthropomorphized.&lt;/b&gt;&quot;" type="link" url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/20117890" /></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" /><outline text="03 - 👯 THE LOOKALIKES — PUBLIC DATA PAGE AND JAMES'S CODE OF PRACTICE" _expanded="true"><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave, 9 Nov (web-ui):&lt;/b&gt; &quot;add lookalike reports to the public data page&quot; (#636), plus a wording fix (#637)." type="link" url="https://public.podcastindex.org/lookalike_feeds_daily.html" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;PNWR, 13 Nov (10:29):&lt;/b&gt; James: &quot;&lt;b&gt;Spreaker has now made a commitment to put in place a number of changes to fight those unauthorized copies&lt;/b&gt;... by the end of the year and certainly by the beginning of next year at the very latest.&quot; His code of practice is now signed by &lt;b&gt;RSS.com, RedCircle, Transistor, Captivate and Blubrry&lt;/b&gt;. Sethi calls it &quot;COP&quot;. James (11:53): &quot;&lt;b&gt;hurrah for Dave Jones from the podcast index as well&lt;/b&gt;, who actually has been doing some tech work to actually help the industry police how the thing's going.&quot;" type="link" url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/20117890" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;User agents (20:19):&lt;/b&gt; Buzzsprout's Tom Rossi proposes &lt;b&gt;Common Access Tokens&lt;/b&gt;, a streaming standard: the app puts a public key on its domain and signs each media request, so a host can tell real Apple Podcasts from apps that pretend. James: &quot;not blocking... just purely another signal.&quot;" type="link" url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/20117890" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;JS:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;@podcastaddict is this a new user-agent of yours?... doesn't match existing patterns.&quot; Podcast Addict said no. JS: &quot;&lt;b&gt;good to know you are popular enough to have imposters.&lt;/b&gt;&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@js/117587868365405375" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;JS on who owns the data:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;the cool thing about podcasting is that the primary storage is _distributed_. &lt;b&gt;dave (and the world) doesn't own it and can't change it, only index/copy it.&lt;/b&gt; Only the feed owner can make changes.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@js/117583542844295143" /></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" /><outline text="04 - 📱 THE INDEX AND THE APPS FLOOD" _expanded="true"><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave, 30 Oct:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;The number of new podcast apps either being launched or under development right now is crazy. I get emails from devs about their projects multiple times per week.&quot; On 9 Nov: &quot;&lt;b&gt;No slow down.&lt;/b&gt;&quot;" type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@dave/117587399339054776" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;New on the apps list since the last show:&lt;/b&gt; Spool, Alarmcast, FreeRadio, Shuttle Podcasts, Seenr, June, Podcasts Tracker, Wolf Paw TV, Static Radio (merged today); Car Curious adds iOS; Boost Me Bitch gets a new icon plus Boost Me Buddy; Podlink supports the block tag." type="link" url="https://podcastindex.org/apps" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Dave's web-ui fixes:&lt;/b&gt; &quot;Return errors from async handlers instead of crashing the server... &lt;b&gt;On 2026-10-22 production went down for an hour after one 'add feed' request with an invalid URL.&lt;/b&gt;&quot; Also: Node 24, and hardened outbound fetches (Node CVEs)." type="link" url="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/web-ui" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Podlink&lt;/b&gt; (Dave boosted): pulling episode comments from podcast:socialInteract threads and Fountain's Nostr boostagrams, with replies through Mastodon or Bluesky." type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@podlink/117587696056579856" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Podcast Player &amp; Tracker v17&lt;/b&gt; (Jonathan, since 2018): &quot;it transcribes any episode on the phone itself, no server involved. When the feed has &lt;podcast:transcript&gt;, it uses that instead.&quot; &lt;b&gt;Podverse&lt;/b&gt; (mitch): a full rewrite is in alpha, out before year end." type="link" url="https://podcastindex.social/@Jonathan/117599629963788870" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Daniel J. Lewis:&lt;/b&gt; Podgagement now shows download stats (Buzzsprout, Blubrry, Captivate, OP3) and is adopting the person tag. The Audacity to Podcast goes on hiatus until early 2027. Today he thought a feed was hiding tags, then: &quot;Nevermind. I was wrong.&quot;" type="link" url="https://podgagement.com/" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Namespace:&lt;/b&gt; Dave merged JS's #794, a valid UUID in the podcast:guid example. New PR #795." type="link" url="https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/pulls" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;HLS video:&lt;/b&gt; Pocket Casts and MacStories add it (PNWR 49:24). Manton: &quot;a critical part of keeping podcasts open as more and more people look to video.&quot; Sethi's TrueFans adds newsletters and a radio page this week, with memberships and merch next week." type="link" url="https://www.manton.org/2026/11/09/very-cool-to-see-macstories.html" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;JS:&lt;/b&gt; Buzzsprout's October stats are charted · iOS version share across 2026, as seen by OP3." type="link" url="https://livewire.io/buzzsprout-stats-visualized/" /></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" /><outline text="05 - 🎙️ PNWR THIS WEEK — &quot;iHeart: the business deal that doesn't make any sense&quot; (summary, no clips)" _expanded="true"><outline text="Podnews Weekly Review, 13 Nov (James Cridland + Sam Sethi, who has COVID)." type="link" url="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/episodes/20117890" /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;iHeart&lt;/b&gt; is reported (Bloomberg) to be putting its podcast business up for sale. James: it makes no sense to sell. UK RAJAR figures: podcasts are about 10% of all audio, against two-thirds for live radio." /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;AI shows:&lt;/b&gt; James found one man publishing &quot;23 hours of podcasts a day&quot;, all made and hosted on Meta, all &quot;hosted by Alex and Jordan&quot;. ElevenLabs now lets users publish AI music straight to SoundCloud." /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Ad load:&lt;/b&gt; Magellan Q3 says ad spend is up 18% and ad load is up 8.86%, about 20 seconds more ads per hour than last year." /><outline text="&lt;b&gt;Also:&lt;/b&gt; Acast's unified analytics dashboard · Message Heard goes into voluntary liquidation · SiriusXM's new CEO is Anjali Sud (from Tubi) · Fox closes the Roku buy · Castro under Maple Media · Spotify login on United flights · RØDE finally ships Android · Sethi: Rob Walsh and Elsie Escobar's show has no chapters or transcripts: &quot;What the F are you doing over there?&quot;" /></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" /><outline text="06 - 💵 SHOULD THE INDEX CHARGE?"><outline text="Adam: Brave shows that services and data are valuable. The Podcast Index should think about charging for some access, if only to stop the scrapers. Dave: &quot;The index's data has to remain free.&quot; The weekly data download stays free." /><outline text="The Podcast Index robot: about 2,000 people a day, tens of thousands of tool calls. The x402 payment rails are already built into the MCP server; a test there is &quot;months and months away.&quot;" /><outline text="Dave's inbox: a request for a podping token, written by Muse on behalf of a user. Adam's robot already answers feed reset emails, robot to robot. Dave: &quot;I just need to charge a buck for every email that I get.&quot;" /></outline><outline text="-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------" /></outline></body></opml>