Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress.com, a free blog hosting service, has updated the amount of space it allocates to each user to 3 gigabytes: Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you‚Äôll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we‚Äôre always thinking about how the improvements we […]

Here at Podcasting News, we’ve been so preoccupied with local politics (the Iowa Caucuses were last week), and then recovering from same, that we only noticed recently that the weekend is filled with National Football League playoff games. Who knew that Jacksonville had a professional football team? Not me! But apparently they are playing the […]

IT Conversations founder and Conversations Network head Doug Kaye sends word that his latest community project, PodCorps.org, is halfway to its goal of 1,000 volunteer audio “stringers.” PodCorps.org is a team of independent audio/video producers who record and publish important events and interviews anywhere in the world. PodCorps.org is a new project of The Conversations […]

Back in August, we took ReadWriteWeb to task for publishing a gloom and doom take on the state of podcasting. RRW’s article suggested that podcasting was stagnating, that podcasting was losing steam and that it was even going out of fashion. At the time, we said that ReadWriteWeb was clueless about podcasting. We called their […]

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reports that Wizzard Media, the owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007. It’s an impressive number, one that’s sure to generate a lot of buzz for both Wizzard and podcasting. It’s been an interesting ride for Wizzard. […]

Podcast.com announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas its list of the “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” for 2007, in conjunction with media aggregation/distribution company Treedia.com, which created the feed management platform used at Podcast.com. Podcast.com, a podcast directory and feed management site, maintains a list of 43,000 podcast feeds. To […]

Here’s a use for podcasts that we haven’t heard of before – the Pasadena Tournament of Roses is offering an audio tour (iTunes link) of the floats featured in the 119th Rose Parade today. The audio files were created to enhance the viewing experiences of visitors at Post Parade: A Showcase of Floats. The free […]

The New York Times’ “Only In New York” podcast has a fun episode this week, looking at the newspaper’s coverage of the 1907 New Year’s Eve festivities, and predictions for 1908. The famed mirrored ball that drops from the newspaper’s tower every New Year’s Eve at midnight debuted 100 years ago. Predictions that air travel […]

The New York Times has an article today that suggests that “blogging is a low-cost, high return marketing tool”: To its true believers at small businesses, it is a low-cost, high-return tool that can handle marketing and public relations, raise the company profile and build the brand. That tool is blogging, though small businesses with […]

Last Friday, Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central (also Blubrry and Raw Voice) broke new media ground with his 24-Hour Podcast Marathon. The event, which raised awareness and money for the One Laptop Per Child initiative, was an around-the-clock international Internet media event, featuring audio and video interviews with dozens of people in the podcast […]