NBC Digital Entertainment and NBC Universal announced today plans to expand their on-demand streaming offerings, mining the wealth of decades of old television programming. Full episode streaming of “classic” series including “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” “Kojak,” “Miami Vice,” the original “Battlestar Galactica,” “A-Team” and “Emergency” (Kevin Tighe and Randolph Mantooth? Squeeeeeee!) will be offered on […]

An Apple patent reveals that the company is working on a podcast aggregator that would dynamically collect the news that you are interested in and deliver a personalized news podcast, according to a report at AppleInsider. In other words – Apple wants to be your news and information station. The system would allow you to: […]

Actor Stephen Fry, beloved at our house for his early 1990’s stint as P.G. Wodehouse‘s butler/hero Jeeves, has turned his creative attention to podcasting. Calling his subscribeable, downloadable audio a “podgram,” the first episode details the story of breaking arm on a movie-making trip to the Amazon. The enhanced podcast is available via his site, […]

Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer is working on a new podcast client as part of his FlickrFan project. FlickrFan is a a platform for uploading and downloading Flickr images and viewing them on an HDTV. Even more important, though, it‚Äôs an attempt to turn your HDTV into a platform that embraces the Internet. Yesterday, he announced […]

The BBC is warning about the rampant new problem of techno addiction – when gadgets get so damn sexy that people become addicted to them. According to the venerable BBC: Techno addiction can become so bad that people wake up several times a night to check their e-mails and text messages; Techno addiction can interfere […]

A new version of HandBrake – the free, open-source DVD to MPEG converter – is now available. HandBrake 0.9.2 incorporates many changes, including full support for the AppleTV Take 2 and the latest iPhone/iPod Touch firmware. Download it now. Features for Apple fans: Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) sound in MP4 files, for a true DVD […]

PodCamp Toronto 2008, a two-day conference exploring the world of “new media community tools,” is coming up this weekend, February 23-24, 2008 at the Rogers Communication Centre at Ryerson University in Toronto. PodCamp Toronto 2008 will bring together professionals and hobbyists from across North America. Over 330 participants are expected at the weekend gathering. Like […]

Rob Walch, co-organizer of PodCamp Midwest, facilitated a group discussion on “Promoting Your Podcast.” About twenty participants discussed inexpensive & effective ideas for self-promotion, including: create a cool podcast name you need good 300 x 300 “album” artwork business cards – with white on back for writing notes drop lifting interview bloggers in your subject […]

Ed Roberts (photo, right), KC Weather Podcast, and music podcast, Looking Out The Window, led a PodCamp Midwest session called “Join the Conversation: (Ed Roberts is not the guy who invented the Altair computer, nor the guy who founded the disability movement and caused wheelchair-accessible parking spaces to be made availalbe) The New Media Triangle […]

While Rob Walch gave a Podcasting 101 session in the big auditorium, at today’s PodCamp Midwest, Brady Goodman (right) presented a session for more seasoned podcasters, “Podcasting Like a Pro.” He has a longtime background in radio, and decided he’d learn about podcasting, and poker, by creating the “Ante Up” podcast three years ago. It […]