It looks like Microsoft is joining the Flash Is Dead bandwagon, announcing that its new direction for video in Internet Explorer is to focus on HTML5 + H.264…..

The Apple iPad is already the most popular eReader platform, according to new stats from comScore.

According to comScore’s research, the iPad rated highest in terms of consumers seriously considering purchase over the next three months at 15 percent of Internet users, with the Kindle at 14 percent.

Here’s how they plan to use the iPad.

We get that Apple thinks the iPad is “magical and revolutionary”.

But what’s really magical and revolutionary is giving individuals the power to create content that can be shared instantly with people anywhere in the world.

The Apple iPad has the potential to be an interesting new platform for doing that – but where’s the PageMaker of iBooks?

Podcast fans are an ideal audience for advertisers to reach, according to a new report from Edison Research and the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM).

Podcast fans are well off financially, they pay attention to the ads in podcasts, they’re hard to reach with traditional advertising and they are 6 times as likely to “enjoy” the ads in podcasts as consumers of traditional media.

When it comes to podcasting as a medium, I’m a true believer.

No, it never exploded the way microblogging or social networks have, but the number of podcasts, the adoption of podcasting by mainstream media, and the number of listeners continues to grow incrementally, not to mention general public awareness of the medium.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants your help to beat a recently approved patent on podcasting that many feel is bogus.

“I’m certainly not a lawyer or an expert in patent law,” said podcast pioneer Dave Winer upon hearing of Volomedia’s patent announcement, “but it seems the work Adam Curry and I did in creating the format and protocol for podcasting, in 2001, may have inspired their ‘invention’. It certainly predates it.”

Blue Microphones has introduced Blue FiRe, a free, high-fidelity field recording app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Blue FiRe is optimized for use with Blue Microphone’s Mikey microphone, which attaches to the iPhone and iPod touch.

Twaud.io is a free service that’s like Twitpic for audio – it makes it trivially easy to share audio and tweet about it.

What’s more – it makes a podcast feed for you, automatically.

Is time for WordPress-based podcasters to dump the once-pioneering podcasting plugin PodPress?

blubrry has announced that PowerPress 1.0 is now available, and it supports all the key PodPress features……

UK startup Mixcloud has gone live with a new audio sharing site that combines podcasting, social media and Digg-like discovery to create what they are calling “cloud radio”.

Their goal? To be the “Youtube of radio.”

Is this the future of podcasting?