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The decline of Shifty Jelly (Pocket Casts going offshore to a boring anonymous US outfit, then Pocket Weather being dumped) is one of the sadder little stories on the Aus tech scene. I'm not blaming them for moving on -- nothing stays the same and there's no reason why it should -- but it's still a bit sad. Everything about Shifty Jelly used to be great.

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> Pocket Casts going offshore to a boring anonymous US outfit

Uh? NPR? WNYC Studios? This American Life? Not really a "boring anonymous US outfit".

To be fair, most of the NPR content is somewhat US specific. I have no idea what the Australian equivalent might be, but I do know the BBC is not a match (eg NPR gets basically no money from the US government except in being a nonprofit).

NPR does for the most part strike me as boring and anonymous. It's a very pale shadow of the UK's BBC Radio 4 or Australia's RN (its nominal equivalents).

Fair point on This American Life though.

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