Corporate social media use grew 14% in 2009, according to The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Their latest study compares adoption of social media over three years (2007, 2008 and 2009) by the Inc. 500. Highlights of the report: Social networking continues to lead the way. The technology that continues […]

Radio industry news blog Radio Survivor is calling podcasting one of the most important radio trends of the last ten years: It’s fair to say that the emergence of podcasting revitalized online radio, and even audio programs in general In the same way that TiVo and PVRs breathed new life into television, podcasting suddenly gave […]

Barney Jameson at DV247 thinks that podcasting is the new punk: The sad truth is that these days if someone snatched my iPhone from my fingers to see what I was listening to they would be less likely to find a demo by a new breaking band than an episode of Movies You Should See. […]

Get a new iPod or iPhone for Christmas? If so, you’ll want to start checking out the world of audio and video podcasts. Podcasting offers you a range of audio and video shows that you can listen to online or download and listen to whenever you like on your iPod (or other portable media player). […]

Blubrry has announced an update to its free PowerPress WordPress podcast plugin. This latest version has been updated for compatibility with WordPress 2.9 and has these new features: Support for Plugin ‘Podcasting’ – PowerPress now includes support for episodes created in Podcasting. Find and Replace for Episode URLs – Blubrry PowerPress now includes a tool […]

Nonprofit storytelling organization The Moth has a simple little podcast story for Halloween that, while not in the slightest bit explicitly violent or gory, manages to be scary. Scary in that way that makes the little hairs on the back of the neck stand up, you know? Writer and performer Joan Juliet Buck tells the […]

Is time for WordPress-based podcasters to dump the once-pioneering podcasting plugin PodPress?

blubrry has announced that PowerPress 1.0 is now available, and it supports all the key PodPress features……

Want to know how to make money podcasting? You could do worse than to look at the example of Leo Laporte, the creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT podcast network. He spoke before the Online News Association this week and discussed his experiences with making money with podcasting and new media. According […]

CollegeCrunch has put together a great list of 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter: One of the more underrated benefits of the internet era has been access to quality radio style programming at any time of the day or night. Just like DVRs have freed us from having to adhere to rigid television program […]

Podcasts may not make you rich, but they may make you skinny. In a recent study, researchers found that people that listened to a diet podcast based on social cognitive science lost 9 times as much weight as people listened to a regular diet podcast. The study, Pounds Off Digitally (POD) Study: A Randomized Podcasting […]