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Continue reading →: It’s Literally In 7/4The chorus is in 4/4 but even that has crazy shit going on, like Hello??? I need you to freak out with me: Willow Smith, performing under the stylization WILLOW, just dropped a pop song with verses in 7/4 and a 4/4 chorus with weird syncopated accents. Go listen to…
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Continue reading →: Your Podcast Needs Better MetadataHow to make sure the big-picture information is giving you a leg up In the excitement of starting a new podcast, there are some things that are high-priority and fun—like recording the actual episodes—and some things that just need to get done. Metadata is usually on that second list, and…
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Continue reading →: Your Podcast Needs Better Show NotesUse them as a resource where you share credit and information your listeners want. Podcasters love getting great audio, but what about great written materials for their podcasts? One oversight in many podcast workflows is making sure your show notes are helping you as much as possible. Uploaded to your…
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Continue reading →: My Current Podcast Subscriptions (Updated 3/25/2024)Hello again from a refresh six years after I last updated this list. I cannot believe I have been doing this for this long! So, let’s talk about what this list is and is not. Last updated: 3/25/2024Previous update: 5/31/18 If you’re curious about a specific podcast, I recommend typing CTRL+F…
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Continue reading →: Your Podcast Needs PaperworkProtect yourself first so you can rest easy while you’re creating. Podcasting may be a great way for creative types to scratch their itch—but like all artistic endeavors, it still requires paperwork. We know. It doesn’t sound fun. It doesn’t sound exciting. But we promise that in the long run,…
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Continue reading →: How I Know So Much ShitIt is 2023, and we are seeing the fallout of Google’s enshittification. If you have turned to Google hoping to find any useful information and come up short recently, you’re not just bad at Google. Anymore, Google is bad at Google: Google the service is no longer providing Google the…
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Continue reading →: Discover Daft Punk with Switched On PopIn 2022, Vulture‘s Switched On Pop delved into the discography of our queen Britney Spears, hot-ish off the heels of the 2021 #FreeBritney movement. In their “Listening 2 Britney” series, they took one album each episode and dissected its roots and impact. Its thesis was focused on Britney’s importance to…
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Continue reading →: Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching” and the Point of No ReturnEvery single review seems to get this movie so wrong that I wrote this in an hour, furiously. Watch movies better, you fucking fucks.
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Continue reading →: The “You’re Wrong About” Extended UniverseIn 2020, I fell in love with You’re Wrong About. The podcast, as one of their taglines suggests, gives a good name to saying, “Well, actually . . .” with its fact-based unpacking of American moral panics and misunderstood historical figures. Amidst constant disinformation and misinformation campaigns, the show felt…
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Continue reading →: The Binder: The Writings That Shaped MeSince I could access the internet, I’ve been a voracious reader of blogs and other digital journalism publications. I come from the heyday of sites like Cracked and the birth of sites like io9, a time before the catastrophic pivot to video or the Hulk Hogan lawsuit, a time before…
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I’m Wil Williams.
Former writer for Polygon, Discover Pods, The Takeout, and more; now a writer for myself.
I do not accept review requests. I do accept press releases.
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