“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash

Dash is right that we should celebrate this statement.

But here's the thing: being able to say, "wherever you get your podcasts" is a radical statement. Because what it represents is the triumph of exactly the kind of technology that's supposed to be impossible: open, empowering tech that's not owned by any one company, that can't be controlled by any one company, and that allows people to have ownership over their work and their relationship with their audience.

The same thing applies for RSS feeds — subscribe in your feed reader. Big difference between feed readers and podcasts though is the value of the ad industry inside it. Maybe we need to get more comfortable not linking directly to things. For example, buy this book at your favorite book seller instead of a direct link to Amazon.