Messing About In Ships is a new weekly maritime podcast. The podcast is unique in that it is recorded and published from the high seas. ‚ÄúI was lucky to be assigned a ship with satellite technology that allows me to record our podcast ‘Messing About In Ships’ regardless of my location,‚Äù explains Captain John Konrad. […]

Just a reminder that Todd Cochrane, the man behind Geek News Central, Blubrry, and Raw Voice, is conducting an all-day Podcast Marathon now through 10 am (Central US time) Saturday, Dec. 22. The marathon is a fundraiser for the One Laptop Per Child initiative. The Marathon is being streamed by Ustream.tv and TalkShoe, and listeners/viewers […]

Actor, writer, and former Python John Cleese has published an enhanced podcast, his own unique interpretation (parody, really) of Clement Moore’s famous poem, The Night Before Christmas. Quoth the John Cleese podcast blog: “Assembled around a blazing fire, families eat themselves sick, drink themselves silly, and fight for their entertainment options with unaccustomed ferocity. So, […]

Todd Cochrane, the host of the Geek News Central Podcast, is hosting a live, interactive event that will last 24 hours. During the 24-hour Podcast Marathon, Todd will stream live from his Hawaii-based studio on Ustream.TV and will have interactive talk via TalkShoe.com. The marathon gets underway at 11am EST on Friday. Guests are going […]

Apple has updated the iTunes store with a directory of their top podcasts of 2007. Lots of the usual suspects, including Sesame Street, NPR’s Fresh Air, Ask a Ninja, Grammar Gril Diggnation, Boing Boing TV & Tiki Bar TV. It’s a great starting point, though, for people new to podcasting. Another demonstration of the fact […]

Google has announced a new project, Our Stories, to help people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their stories unfold. The project brings together the efforts of Google, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and UNICEF. Google is providing the infrastructure to let people around the world create and […]

The Association For Downloadable Media (ADM), a newly-formed organization dedicated to “providing standards for advertising and audience measurement for episodic and downloadable media,” announced today the election results for the 20 positions on its board. Podcasting News Publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talked with some of the newly-elected board members and committee heads, asking about what […]

The vloggers at Common Craft have another winner with their Blogs In Plain English: The ideas apply just as well to podcasting & vlogging.

Dave Winer, creator of the RSS 2.0 standard on which podcasting is based, offers some interesting comments on the state of podcasting at his blog: “What if the energy that went into Chumby, for example, went into designing a podcast player? The player might actually look more like Chumby than it does an iPod. The […]

This video offers a short tutorial on using the free Audacity audio editor for creating audio podcasts.