The UK Podcasters Association, a non-profit organization promoting podcasting, has announced that it has come to an agreement with AIM, the UK-based Association of Independent Music, which allows members preferential access to AIM’s podcast license. The AIM podcast license covers over 30,000 tracks licensed by the UK independent music industry and includes labels such as […]

It looks like the good people at Soundtrack.net have figured out one of the tried and true ways to get covered by Podcasting News: do something that involves pirates and podcasting. Their latest podcast looks at the music for Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. In our longest podcast to date, SoundtrackNet talks with […]

VocalBooth.com, a manufacturer of modular sound reduction enclosures, has released their 14 Carat Diamond Series vocal booths. The Diamond Series, named for its shape, is a five-sided booth engineered to utilize the corner of a room. The five sided design also creates non-parallel walls that help to reduce standing waves. The new 14 Carat series […]

PennSound, a project of the University of Pennsylvania, is a Web-based archive for noncommercial distribution of the largest collection of poetry sound files on the Internet. PennSound offers a large variety of digital recordings of poems — currently 1,500 and fast growing — mostly as song-length singles. “This has never been done before,” said Al […]

Google has introduced a new podcast, the Google Developer Podcast. The podcast is hosted by Dick Wall and Carl Quinn, two Googlers that are part of the Java Posse podcast. Topics covered will include: Interviews with Google engineers, discussing areas of their expertise New features, applications, and APIs that matter to developers Open source projects […]

Amazon.com today officially launched the Amazon Podcasts network, an original podcast offering¬†that features four channels of free content: Amazon BookClips, Music You Should Hear, Significant Seven and Amazon Wire. The company expects to offer several additional channels in the coming months to meet its customers‚Äô increasing demand for rich content related to the products they […]

Podcast aggregation site Odeo today announced that its assets have been acquired by SonicMountain, a New York based company focused in the digital media hosting and search marketplace. Odeo was among the first commercial podcasting sites, launched in July 2005, and is designed to make it easy to listen, download and subscribe to podcasts. The […]

Corporate communications consultant SNP Communications has introduced a new training class that is designed to introduce corporate communicators to the process of creating, editing, posting and distributing audio and video podcasts. The SNP Corporate Podcast Class walks participants through the entire production process. The class covers: Creating content: pre-interviews, interviews and writing scripts Setting-up your […]

SplashCast today introduced a new service, MyPodcastNetwork, that lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, though, is that it’s not static audio or video that gets embedded, but a customized channel of podcast content […]

PodShow and Sirius are parting ways. PodShow podcasts will lose their satellite audience as of May 1st, according to reports from affected podcasters. The split is a setback for PodShow podcasters, which include Soccergirl, Dawn & Drew and Scott Sigler. The split is likely to be little more than a speedbump, though, for podcasting as […]