BCS, the 58,000-member “professional body for those working in IT,” today announced the debut of its podcast, the charmingly titled oddIT. The weekly podcast discusses interesting, funny, and strange IT stories from recent headlines. “Listen to the podcast in its pre-award winning days,” quipped managing editor Brian Runciman. “The idea is to show that IT […]

College admissions testing concern ACT has recently debuted a podcast for high school students and their families. The Prep Talk podcast section of the “ACT Student Blog” covers a variety of college planning topics. The latest podcast, about financial aid, features Cathy Wilcox, Senior Associate Director in the Office of Student Financial Aid at the […]

Gizmodo is calling for a boycott on the RIAA in March: Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label. […]

Radio industry website FMQB.com reports that public radio station KCRW/Santa Monica has been awarded a $600,000, three-year grant from the Annenberg Foundation, which the public radio station plans to use for “Web initiatives and podcasting.” paidContent.org elaborates that as part of “public media‚Äôs push into online media,” KCRW, the NPR flagship station for Southern California, […]

The Valley Forge National Historical Park and energy utility PECO this week have announced the creation of the PECO Podcast Through History. The Southeast Pennsylvania gas and electric utility has given a $20,000 donation which will fund the creation of a podcast series that can be accessed at the park or from home, that will […]

Actor’s union Equity purports to have achieved a world first, after agreeing a rights deal with the producer of an updated audio podcast of 70s cult sci-fi show Blake’s 7. Equity said its ground-breaking agreement with B7 Productions would guarantee performers a share of net revenues generated from podcast downloads as well as from audio […]

Odeo, a podcasting community that was one of the darlings of early podcasting coverage in the mainstream media, is looking for a buyer: In the last few months, we here at Obvious have been increasingly focused on Twitter. As a result, our original product, Odeo, has not gotten the attention it deserves. It does not […]

Forum Communications has added podcasting capabilities to its Consortium line of enterprise voice conferencing systems. Users have one-touch access and can download conferences as podcasts, letting users to conferences at their leisure. Both Consortium II and Consortium VIP now let users capture calls as podcasts for automatic download via their choice of software such as […]

RealTraps has introduced the Portable Vocal Booth, a device that mounts on any microphone stand to create a highly controlled environment for recording vocals and spoken narration in acoustically hostile spaces. The RealTraps Portable Vocal Booth is larger than competive products, comprising a pair of 2 by 2 foot absorbing panels in a fully adjustable […]

Audiofile Engineering has introduced voXover, a new voice-over automation tool and batch recorder for Mac OS X. voXover is a voice-over automation utility and batch-recorder for multimedia projects that require large numbers of individual audio files to be recorded where a typical multi-track recorder is not feasible. Examples range from video game development and broadcast […]