Jason Calacanis, CEO of the blogging network Weblogs, Inc., thinks that Podshow raising another $15 million in venture capital means that the podcast bubble is here: Lest there be no question, we are now in a full-blown bubble. What on earth Podshow is going to do with almost $25M in funding is anyones guess, but […]

At the second annual Podcast and Portable Media Expo, being held at the Ontario Convention Center (above) Sept 29-30, Ron Moore, head writer and show runner for Battlestar Galactica, and creator of Battlestar Galactica podcast, gave the second keynote speech. Here are some highlights from his discussion: Galactica’s podcast pilot project was initially referred to […]

The second annual Podcast and Portable Media Expo, being held at the Ontario Convention Center (above) Sept 29-30, is getting underway with keynotes by podcaster and author Leo Laporte, host of TWiT.tv, and Ron Moore, Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica. Leo Laporte is kicking things off with a discussion of important issues facing podcasting as […]

Digg dudes Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose, along with David Prager (TechTV, G4), Dan Huard, and Ron Gorodetzky, dig doing downloadable video so much that they’ve created a new media company, Revision3, to do it. According to the company, “Revision3 is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike […]

Akamai, the leading Web content delivery network, today announced that Kiptronic, an ad marketplace for the podcasting industry, will use the Akamai global EdgePlatform to accelerate its customer’s distribution of audio and video podcasts over the Internet. Kiptronic’s multimedia ad insertion technology lets audio and video podcast publishers select targeted advertisements and sponsorships to run […]

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 […]

Starbucks is the latest company to misstep with their initial attempt at corporate podcasting. Their podcast, Starbucks Coffee Conversations, is striking many as hard to swallow. The first episode, Coffee 101 (MP3), features a discussion with coffee farmers and a taste-testing expert. “All the things that give podcasting flavor — natural tone, passion, spontaneity, good […]

BT today announced it has teamed up with PodShow, a US podcasting network, to launch BT PodShow, a branded version of the PodShow Network produced for the UK market. BT PodShow will provide users with their own personal online media centres where they can post their own content and interact with others locally and across […]