Social media guru JD Lasica interviewed Hayden Black, the creator and star of the Internet video hits Goodnight Burbank and Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary, at the recent Digital Hollywood conference. Black offers some background on his shows, but also touches on things anyone should consider when creating an Internet video series. It seems that Hayden […]

Microsoft today announced the release of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), a free, open source podcasting kit that offers organizations a centralized solution to create, manage and distribute podcasts. Built on the SharePoint Server and Microsoft Silverlight platforms, and compatible with the Zune, PCs and other devices that play podcasts (ie., iPods & iPhones), […]

Videographer is a free WordPress theme for creating video sites. “It’s a great way to build content-rich niche sites, and use the power of YouTube at the same time,” says creator Shane Navratil. To use it, you’ll need to know WordPress, some HTML and possibly some php. No support is provided for the theme.

Podcast pioneer and former MTV VJ Adam Curry shared this image of his podcasting setup on Flickr. This is his rig for recording Daily Source Code. It shows how you can get a professional podcast from a relatively modest setup. (It helps to have Curry’s 20+ years of media experience, obviously!) I spy what looks […]

Edison Research’s Tom Webster, who has been researching and reporting on podcasting for years now, has some interesting thoughts on promoting your podcast through social networking sites like MySpace and Twitter: Change occurs at the margin, and it would be unwise to ignore the increasing popularity and utility of the various social networking sites. However, […]

Common Craft put together this fun and simple intro to podcasting. The video is licensed with a Creative Commons license, so you can copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes.

The Association for Downloadable Media, an industry group focusing on podcasting and new media, today unveiled proposed advertising standards for use with downloadable media. The proposed ad units are offered with an eye toward making negotiations smoother between content creators and advertisers. The proposed standards were presented Wednesday morning in an ADM forum at the […]

Kids just got a great justification for getting bigger iPods – PBS & Apple have added a large variety of educational programming to iTunes U: From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with […]

Call Graph is a “simple and good” plugin for Skype for recording calls. Features: Call Recording: record your calls in an mp3 file, automatically. Full Skype Support: record Skype to Skype, SkypeIn, SkypeOut calls. Completely Free: no limits or restrictions of any kind. Manage Records: use tags to mark your records. Integrated Search: use tags […]

PodCamp, the free podcasting unconference, is coming to Ohio, on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at the ITT Technical Institute in Hilliard. PodCamp Ohio offers an opportunity for attendees to learn, share or grow their new media skills. They can attend informal sessions, created and driven by participants, about podcasts, blogs, digital music, web video and […]