At the recent Podcast and Portable Media Expo, I had a chance to talk with Douglas Sarine (L) and Kent Nichols (R), the guys behind the viral video podcast hit Ask A Ninja. I was suffering from laryngitis at the time – which meant that I spent most of the interview listening. It’s just as […]

Podcaster, mobilecasting guru and Zune Podcast Programming Manager Rob Greenlee has announced 1-click podcast subscriptions for the Zune portable media player. The 1-click process will launch the Zune Marketplace software and add the podcast subscription to the user’s collection. The process will work best if the Zune user already has the new Zune Marketplace software […]

Podcast411’s Rob Walch has suggested a standard button for one-click subscriptions for the Zune portable media player: This is a variation on the iTunes 1-click chicklet: Both are released under a Creative Commons license. Microsoft hasn’t yet released details on their implementation of podcasting or their one-click support. Ideally, they’d help move the podcasting world […]

Podcast hosting provider Podango has announced integration with PodPress and WordPress, making it possible to seamlessly use the popular podcast publishing tools while taking advantage of Podango’s unlimited free hosting. How it works: Set up a Podango account. Once your account is set up, you will get an API Key and a podcast ID. Add […]

The Podcast and New Media Expo, taking place September 28-30 in Ontario, California, kicks off this morning. The Expo brings together digital media creators, podcasters and content developers from around the world for three days focused on content creation, the new media business, discussing trends and networking. You can get a preview of the show […]

Podcast network Podango today announced the twenty-one podcasting and new media speakers staged for its “Unconference” at the Podcast and New Media Expo (PNME), taking place September 28-30, at the Ontario Convention Center. “We’re featuring an open discussion and practical, how-to exchanges of information,” said Lee Gibbons, CEO of Podango. Podango has organized an outstanding […]

A new book, The Business Podcasting Book (Amazon listing), has been published that features a supergroup of podcasting experts, including Michael Geoghegan, Greg Cangialosi, Ryan Irelan, Tim Bourquin & Colette Vogele. The book is intended to offer practical experience that you can apply to your own business podcast. It covers planning, content creation, legal considerations, […]

The Financial Aid Podcast’s Christopher Penn has released a free .php script, the Podcaster iPhone Kit, that can be used to generate an iPhone-friendly page for your podcast. Here’s how Penn describes the script: This simple little web page parses your podcast’s XML feed and slaps it into a nice page designed to render well […]

Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane, a long-time podcaster and the author of a book on podcasting, has taken a look at the state of podcast sites and podcast feeds and found widespread quality problems. “The amount of garbage sites out there astounded me,” said Cochrane. Cochrane looked at the podcast feeds and sites of podcasts […]

Colette Cassinelli covers the basics of educational podcasting. See our How To Podcast category for more podcasting tutorials and our Educational Podcasts category for more info on podcasting in education.