Having alternately enjoyed and scoffed at my early ‘00s online mania, Stylus magazine editor Todd Burns came to my apartment in 2006 for a “Stycast.” Thirteen years later, people may not realize that podcasts were a feverish commercial concern all those years ago, but there were hundreds of RSS-fed podcasts fighting for coverage, and making money. Todd would shortly hereafter pivot, and shepherd the ascent of Resident Advisor.

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