In the latest episode of the Chit Chat Across the Pond podcast, Allison Sheridan quizzed me about what’s happening with Arc, the innovative Web browser from The Browser Company of New York, and its stripped-down successor, the AI-enhanced Dia. As I explained to Allison, Arc has not been discontinued, but it is in a maintenance mode limbo while The Browser Company pivots to Dia. Hearing that their favorite Web browser has no future makes dedicated Arc users very unhappy. Listen in if you want a conversational take on what I wrote in “Dia Browser Debuts with Contextual AI Chat, But Arc Users Feel Left Behind” (20 June 2025).
One quick question: Do you find announcements of my podcast appearances useful so you can listen to them? I ask because I’m unsure if announcing them here is valuable, given that they’re usually triggered by TidBITS articles that you have likely already read. I enjoy exploring or highlighting specific aspects of the topics with the hosts, so the episodes always make for fun conversations, but they still cover the same basic ground.
Do you find TidBITS podcast appearance announcements valuable?
Consider this reply an Other answer for the mini survey: How about adding info at the end of any article to which the podcast is relevant? Maybe there’s already some functionality like this that I don’t know about; these days I’m only an infrequent TidBITS reader.
I agree with others it’s not the binary choice set up in the poll (as quick and clean as it would be to have a definitive answer).
I have listened to a couple of podcasts you’ve mentioned since you’ve started mentioning them. In general I find podcasts a messy and inefficient way to take in information, but sometimes an intriguing way to take in other points of view.
Still, one mention might be the one I needed to see.
I’m not quite sure I understand this suggestion—perhaps you can explain further.
I should note that I have a policy against historical revisionism—once an article has gone out in email, the only changes I’ll make to it are to fix typos or other tiny things, nothing of substance. Very, very infrequently, I’ll add a blue-boxed note to the top or bottom to point people to a newer article.
Thanks for asking about my suggestion, Adam. A hard limit on revising articles makes sense to me.
This doesn’t answer your request for explanation, but the third choice I’d have added to your survey would have been “I like having information about the podcast, but I don’t often take the link.” So, that may mean that it’s valuable to include announcements in TidBITS.
Maybe I’m getting closer to explaining myself by noting that at the bottom this article there is a “podcast appearance” categorization. I feel like some indication that you talked about an article on a podcast is useful, and it could be one of those categories.
So, I think I expected the survey to be about whether you feel your efforts to get the word out about the podcast are sufficient. But you’re really asking a different question—and I have a ton of respect for short surveys!
I think I see where you’re going now, but I’ve gotten almost no indication that anyone uses those category and tag boxes at the bottom of articles, and adding such a tag weeks after the fact would be even less noticeable.
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