2023 Year-End Wrapped from The Ride Home Podcast

A year in tech news, curated daily by The Ride Home podcast

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📅 Episodes & Coverage

Metric Count
Daily Show Episodes 244 days
Friday Longreads Episodes 47 Fridays
Total Episodes 291 episodes
Year Coverage 66.8% of 2023

Category Links Average per Episode
Daily Show Links 1,534 6.3 links/episode
Weekend Longreads 174 3.7 links/episode
TOTAL 1,708 -

Rank Source Links
🥇 The Verge 252
🥈 Bloomberg 211
🥉 TechCrunch 146
4 WSJ 105
5 FT 62
6 CNBC 62
7 NYTimes 61
8 Reuters 51
9 The Information 40
10 Ars Technica 26

📚 Top 10 Sources - Weekend Longreads

Rank Source Articles
🥇 Bloomberg 18
🥈 NYTimes 17
🥉 The Verge 13
4 Wired 9
5 WSJ 7
6 The Atlantic 6
7 Vulture 6
8 Fast Company 5
9 Washington Post 5
10 Vox 5

🎯 Top Topics (AI Categorization)

Topics covered across 1,708 categorized links:

Rank Topic Links Percentage
🥇 AI/Machine Learning 398 23.3%
🥈 Hardware/Chips 273 16.0%
🥉 Other Tech News 194 11.4%
4 Social Media 172 10.1%
5 Regulation/Policy 160 9.4%
6 Security/Privacy 100 5.9%
7 Crypto/Blockchain 99 5.8%
8 Streaming/Entertainment 93 5.4%
9 Gaming 76 4.4%
10 Cloud/Enterprise 50 2.9%

🏢 Big Tech Company Mentions

The tech companies that dominated headlines in 2023:

Company Mentions Chart
🏆 Apple 374 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
🔍 Google 287 █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
💼 Microsoft 249 █████████████████████████████████████████████████
👤 Meta 163 ████████████████████████████████
🤖 OpenAI 163 ████████████████████████████████
📦 Amazon 132 ██████████████████████████
🎬 Netflix 49 █████████
🎮 Nvidia 32 ██████
🤖 Anthropic 24 ████
🚗 Tesla 12 ██

💡 Fun Facts

  • 🏆 Most Mentioned Company: Apple dominated with 374 mentions
  • 📰 Top Daily News Source: The Verge with 252 links
  • 📖 Top Longreads Source: Bloomberg (18 articles)
  • 📊 Links Per Episode: An average of 6.3 daily links kept listeners informed
  • 📅 Consistency: 244 daily episodes means coverage on most weekdays throughout the year
  • 🎯 Quality Curation: 1,708 total links from premium sources

📈 Key Takeaways

2023 was characterized by The Verge leading coverage with diverse tech stories, while traditional tech giants maintained strong presence in the news cycle.

The Ride Home covered 66.8% of 2023, bringing tech news to thousands of listeners.


Generated 01/14/26 Data source: docs/all-links-2023.md and docs/longreads-2023.md