Can you podcast physical things? Most people think of podcasting in a fairly limited sense. – for example, radio shows that you can download automatically. We’ve always had a broader view, that podcasting was the publishing of downloadable files with an RSS 2.0 news feed. With that in mind, you can use podcasting to automatically […]

Good news for new media publishers – Internet media is rapidly becoming the biggest channel for advertising. The Guardian reports that the UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising than on television advertising, with a record £1.75bn online spend in the first six months of the year. This […]

Podcasts may not make you rich, but they may make you skinny. In a recent study, researchers found that people that listened to a diet podcast based on social cognitive science lost 9 times as much weight as people listened to a regular diet podcast. The study, Pounds Off Digitally (POD) Study: A Randomized Podcasting […]

This is an edited version of Social Media Revolution, a video that brings to life some amazing facts and statistics about new media and social media. Music by Fat Boy Slim, Right Here, Right Now (1999).

Fast Company has an interesting article that looks at Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twitter. It features the work of Dan Zarella, who analyzed 5 million tweets and 40 million retweets to find out what factors influence your “retweetability”. There are some surprises. For example, newer URL shortners, such as bit.ly, ow.ly, […]

The Emmy Awards were more horrible than ever – with a visit from Neal Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion as Dr Horrible and Captain Hammer. The highlight is Dr. Horrible’s skewering of both the future of television and the current state of Internet video.

WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is throwing itself behind RSS Cloud, a step that could put millions of bloggers and podcasters one step closer to real-time updates: Today we turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com something called RSS Cloud, which is basically a way for people to get […]

This video, via Socialnomics, looks at the social media revolution. Watch it – you’ll find out some facts that will surprise you, no matter how engaged in social media you happen to be.

Marketing guru Mitch Joel addresses radio DJ’s in his latest post, saying that there’s hope for people displaced by turmoil in the radio industry – podcasting: You do not need a radio station or any other mass media channel to give you permission to broadcast your talk-radio show to the world. It is called, “Podcasting” […]

A major WordPress hack has been creating headaches for bloggers, podcasters and anyone else using WordPress for their content management system. If you’re using anything other than the most recent version of WordPress, your site is apparently ripe for the plucking by hackers. If you haven’t already, update to the most recent version now. WordPress […]