Special guest Taegan Goddard, longtime writer and founder of <a href="https://politicalwire.com/">Political Wire</a>, joins the show to talk about the past, present, and future of independent media.

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<li><a href="https://politicalwire.com/">Political Wire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greymatter_(software)">Greymatter</a> — open source blogging software by Noah Grey, released in 2000.
<ul><li><a href="http://web.petefinnigan.com/gm_manual.html">Greymatter 1.8.2 User Manual</a>.</li>
<li>Slashdot, 2022: “<a href="https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/05/01/2145217/how-the-internet-saved-the-home-of-blogging-pioneer-noah-grey">How The Internet Saved the Home of Blogging Pioneer Noah Grey</a>”.</li></ul></li>
<li>Mark Pilgrim, back in 2002: “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110718034619/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/06/history_of_the_rss_fork">History of the RSS Fork</a>”.</li>
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This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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