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• The Acquired podcast filled San Francisco’s Chase Arena with more than 6,000 fans last week. Guests for the show included Mark Zuckerberg, Emily Chang and Daniel Ek. Justin Jackson, co-founder of Transistor (which hosts the show) was there and took a bunch of photographs. If ever you need a concrete example of the power of podcasting, this was it.
• Happy 20 year anniversary to the word “podcast”, which was proposed on Sep 16 2004 by Dannie J Gregoire on a mailing list. (Here’s a full history.)
• Got a diary? Find Sep 24, and mark it “New exciting thing from RØDE to be released”. Shhh.

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