¬† PowWows.com has introduced a new podcast that features Native American music and interviews, IndigiTunes. The first episode featureed Pow Wow music. More recent episodes have featured 49 songs, Fiddle music and music from Kenny Merrick Jr. You can preview the podcast below, or subscribe by adding this feed URL to your podcast client software: […]

Hundreds of U.S. commercial webcasters are going silent today, June 26, to protest to an impending royalty rate increase that could threaten their ability to make money broadcasting mainstream music. Yahoo! is one of the Internet radio broadcasters that has announced that it is going silent: “Apologies to anyone who was hoping to listen to […]

Dave Winer, who developed one of the standards which podcasting is based on, is excited by the idea of combining audio files with Twitter messages. He calls the combination a “TwitterGram”: The other day I was thinking about other kinds of Twitters. The thing we like about Twitter is that you can’t post a book-length […]

Media hosting/publishing service provider Podango has announced that a beta version of its P2 Platform is now available. The P2 platform’s feature set includes publishing tools for audio, video, and blogging, metric monitoring tools, search engine optimization, integrated advertising and the ability to embed the player in other sites. The end-user experience includes easy subscription […]

Thousands of U.S. commercial webcasters plan to go silent Tuesday, June 26, to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that could threaten the viability of stations that broadcast mainstream music. Earlier in the year, the United States Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for webcasting traditionally licensed music, to be effective from […]

Iconic punk rocker/new wave singer/songwriter Elvis Costello has introduced a podcast that offers fans a candid look at the first ten years of his career. The Elvis Costello Podcast will be a ten-part weekly series running through August. The podcast is tied in with a new best of CD release. Costello shares stories with producer […]

Voices.com, an online marketplace for voiceover services, is covering the basics of podcasting this week at their Vox Daily blog. For their “Podcasting Week 2007”, they plan to cover listening to podcasts as well as the business side of podcast production. Details are available at the Vox Daily blog.

The BBC has published an interesting story featuring blogging and podcasting pioneer Dave Winer. In the article, one of the topics that Winer touches on is his vision for a better portable media player for listening to podcasts: In order to really work for podcasting, I think a new kind of player needs to have […]

Media search technology company PodZinger has announced they will re-brand as EveryZing to reflect in its name that its future business operations which will go beyond podcasting. The company also announced a major expansion plan into all forms of online multimedia content. PodZinger’s speech-to-text technology extracts text from audio and video files, offering additional information […]

The Amergence Group announced today that it acquiring SonicMountain, the parent company of podcasting community Odeo.com. Under the terms of the agreement, SonicMountain will become a wholly owned subsidiary of The Amergence Group. According to the Amergence Group: Now, SonicMountain will have the resources to revolutionize Odeo’s environment and add exciting new features to its […]