Blubrry has announced that it now has 1,000 podcasters partcipating in its podcasting community. Blubrry combines standard podcast directory features with community-building and podcasting advertising options. “In creating Blubrry, we all thought about our previous bad experiences with directories and podcast listing sites,” said Blubrry founder Todd Cochrane. “So Blubrry’s monetization options, the lack of […]

Business Week is hyping the advertising potential of podcasts, calling them The Next Big Ad Medium. According to their analysis, podcasts are poised to grab a larger slice of the multibillion-dollar online advertising pie. They highlight research from eMarketer expects that advertisers will spend more than $400 million on podcasting by 2011, up from $80 […]

The Star-Telegram has an interesting article that looks at the growing use of podcasts for distance learning: Distance learning has been around for decades, but thanks to the iPod and other digital music players, higher education is becoming as portable as a pop song. “I do testing for offshore rigs,” said Melvin Robinson, a Sugar […]

iPod Mondays are a thing of the past at Des Moines, Iowa’s The Lift bar. Apple asked The Lift’s iPod Mondays organizer Clint Curtus to stop using the name ‚ÄúiPod Monday‚Äù. For two years, Curtis has organized the weekly event, where iPod fans can get together and be share their music favorites. Curtis also created […]

PodCamps in Toronto, Atlanta & NYC will offer podcasters and people interested in podcasting a chance to meet, learn and share about podcasting. PodCamp Toronto, scheduled for February 24-25, 2007, will be held Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson University. PodCamp Atlanta is scheduled for March 16-18, 2007 at Emory University. PodCamp NYC is scheduled for […]

PBS has introduced a new podcast, the Take One Step podcast, as part of a new health campaign launched to raise awareness of heart disease. The campaign features a wide variety of resources to help inform people about the number one killer in the US. To accompany the premiere of The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease […]

Irreverent director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma) is podcasting. The Smodcast is described as “the meandering palaver of a pair of dudes whose voices are so dull, they don’t deserve to be on the radio (and, hence, aren’). Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier are SModcast.” SModcast features harsh language and even harsher notions of propriety. […]

A vulnerability in Microsoft’s recently released operating system appears to let an audio¬†podcast hack Windows Vista. Vista’s speech recognition feature can let attackers run malicious programs using recorded audio commands. Microsoft has confirmed the vulnerability: Microsoft‚Äôs initial investigation reveals that this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use the speech recognition feature in Windows Vista […]

Yodio unveiled its new audio publishing service and online marketplace, described as the Blogger of podcasting, at the DEMO 07 conference today. Yodio hopes to define a new category of site, a Web community for anyone to create, publish, and buy/sell personal audio recordings. Yodio lets users record by phone using Yodio’s toll-free service or […]

TNC New Media, creator of the EndurancePlanet.com podcast, announced today that they have sold the online media property and its archive of endurance athlete interviews. The buyer, Kevin Patrick, is an accomplished broadcaster and multisport athlete already producing podcasts for clients. “We‚Äôve sold the EndurancePlanet.com podcast,” Tim Bourquin, CEO of TNC New Media, told Podcasting […]