KCRW, a Santa Monica, CA public radio station, has doubled its audience using podcasting and other Internet audio technologies. KCRW is aggressively pushing live streaming of programs, podcasting and other Internet audio technologies, and in the process, demonstrating the potential the Internet may hold for all radio stations, public or commercial. KCRW online had 760,000 […]

Focus on the Family has launched a new podcast, The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast. While the organization publishes several other podcasts, this is the first one featuring content developed specifically for podcasting. The podcast will feature interviews with actors and producers from Adventures in Odyssey and previews of upcoming shows. ‚ÄúWe‚Äôve always tried to […]

One more sign that YouTube as you know it is dead: the site has quietly purged over 30,000 videos after receiving complaints of copyright infringement. According to a report in the New York Times, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were taken down after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, […]

Warner Brothers has introduced a Justice League Heroes podcast and video podcast. the podcasts feature the prequel story to a Justice League Heroes videogame that is available on the PlayStation2 and Xbox game systems. The game features features an original story from award-winning comic book and animation writer Dwayne McDuffie (Static Shock, Justice League, Teen […]

The BBC’s Chris Vallance is looking for podcasters to help provide comprehensive coverage of the US mid-term elections. “We’ll be visiting Connecticut and Pennsylvania and on election night (Nov 7th) in Washington DC – but we can’t be everywhere and there many fascinating races we’d like to cover,” said Vallance. “So we’d like your help […]

A large survey of web professionals has found that many are planning to use podcasting, blogs and wikis in the next 12 months to help build communities. Highlights: 38 percent of developers intend to use blogs in their development projects 25 percent aim to use podcasting 20 percent mean to use wikis Syndication will also […]

Jack Black, international sensation, has created a special infomercial on the subject of music piracy. “Look, super mega rock and roll gods and superstars are just regular dudes like you guys. We punch the clock, we put on the pants and we then we blow people’s minds,” according to Black. “And then these pirates come, […]

Denver Pediatric specialist Dr. Steven Rothenberg is taking his surgical techniques and sharing them with other doctors around the world, via medical video podcasts. The surgeon says this makes “the surgical world a lot smaller and more capable of saving babies worldwide.” For example, Chloe Faith Smith was born prematurely, and suffers from a severe […]

Podcast Solutions, by Michael Geoghegan and Dan Klass, is a comprehensive introduction to podcasting. The book is bylined “The Complete Guide to Podcasting,” and does a good job of delivering on this promise. A powerhouse of podcasting talent is behind the book. The authors, Geoghegan and Klass, are podcasters that pioneered the production of podcasts […]

The latest episode of Perot Systems’ Healthcare Tech and The World podcast looks into the advantages and drawbacks of the use of robotics in health care delivery. Robotics in Health Care (MP3) explores how robotics give doctors the ability to provide care to hospital-based patients, anytime and anywhere. Host Kevin Fickenscher is joined by Dr. […]