The Miami Herald has an article on Weina Scott, a tech-savvy teen that just happens to be the CEO of $200k podcasting website. Weina Scott answers about 100 tech support e-mails a day. The website must be perfect — one glitch, and 6,000 irate customers will bombard her inbox. But first, she has to study […]

Added to Podcast Directory List: PersianCast is described as “The First Iranian Podcast Provider”. The site debuted Sept 20th, and is a free service. According to the site, “all Persian language people can send their podcasts to the site.”

A new series of free, dynamically mapped and customizable sound-seeing tours of Philadelphia debuted today at SoundAboutPhilly.com. The SoundAboutPhilly tours concentrate on lesser-known city experiences and combine interesting tales, fun facts and lively music to tell the area’s story. The tours feature distinctive and varied voices of experts, boutique owners, chefs, musicians and everyday, in- […]

Bamboo MediaCasting has partnered with Britcaster.com, a UK podcast community, to deliver MobiPod, a service they describe as “the most advanced mobile podcasting service in the market today.” MobiPod lets users subscribe once to their favorite podcasts, then receive their personal selection of podcasts automatically. Full track, 30-40 minute podcast updates are delivered off-peak or […]

Bridge Ratings, a research firm specializing in radio, has updated its growth projections for radio an various alternatives as part of on-going study of audience attrition of traditional radio and subscriber and user growth of alternative digital media. The company positions podcasting as less of an immediate threat to radio than previously projected: “Podcasting is […]

A new Bridge Ratings consumer study of current terrestrial radio listeners finds that radio stations that aggressively embrace, utilize and market new digital technologies enhance their competitive position against other terrestrial radio stations as well as against the stand-along digital technologies. “Its is clear to us that this sample of radio listeners gravitated more positively […]

Next weekend’s Podcast and Portable Media Expo is all set and ready to go, event organizer Tim Bourquin says. “We’ve been planning this event for nearly a year. It’s like a bobsled – you start pushing it downhill, and, after awhile, it picks up momentum and speeds on its own.” In an interview with Podcasting […]

The Corporate Podcasting Summit has announced that it is coming to London on 19 – 20 March 2007. Hot on the heels of the inaugural summit that took place in San Francisco, June 2006, the European summit will explore how podcasting and social media can help companies create dialogue with their customers, engage with employees […]

A new podcast, Talking Robots, features interviews with high-profile professionals in robotics and artificial intelligence for an inside view on the science, technology, and business of intelligent robotics. The podcast is created by the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, EPFL, Switzerland. The initial episode (MP3) features an interview with Dario Floreano, a professor at the Ecole […]

Podcast hosting site CyberEars.com is offering the first 50 new podcasters free hosting for 6 months, including 500mb of storage and unlimited bandwidth as a way of raising awareness and expanding the number of podcasts hosted at the site. Conditions: Podcasts must contain spoken word, original material, and not breach any copyright regulations Podcasts must […]