British comedian Ricky Gervais has translated his popular podcast, The Ricky Gervais Show, into an animated series for HBO. The animated series takes the audio of the podcast and puts animation to it, intercutting retro-styled animated scenes with animated versions of Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington. See the HBO site for details.

Google has updated its free podcast client for Android devices, Google Listen. Here’s what’s new in version 1.1: Subscriptions are stored by Google Reader in the “Listen Subscriptions” folder. Subscribed feed items are fresh, no longer limited in size, and are available offline (and more quickly). Screen “My listen items” shows queued and most recently […]

WordPress.com – the popular free blog hosting service – went offline today, taking with it popular sites like TechCrunch, GigaOm and 9.2 million other blogs. The site was down close to two hours. No official announcement has been made on the cause for the outage. WordPress.com is the 19th most popular site in the world, […]

Lead Developer Andy Peatling has announced that BuddyPress 1.2, the latest version of the WordPress social networking add-on, is now available. The release is notable because it works with standard WordPress installs. Previously, it would only work with WordPress MU. This means that bloggers and podcasters using WordPress can now have a self-hosted solution for […]

This video tutorial, by Brent Powell, looks at how to use free software – Audacity – to record, edit and export a podcast. Audacity is available for Mac, Windows and Linux.

CNet’s Veronica Belmont and Tom Merrit offer their take on the basics of podcasting in Podcasting 101. They cover: basic podcasting mics podcasting software podcasting mixers Audacity podcast hosting RSS Feeds OurMedia.org podcast subscription FeedBurner podcast promotion iTunes It’s the 10,000 foot view – but it’s a good basic overview.

Podcast hosting network Wizzard Media today announced the availability of In App Purchasing for its Podcast Apps in the iTunes App store. Wizzard’s iPhone App is designed to be quickly customized for each podcast. It lets podcast publishers offer their own iPhone App. With In App Purchasing capabilities, podcast publishers will be able to offer […]

WordPress.org has announced an update to WordPress for iPhone. The update is focused on improved comment moderation, including: Reply to Comments Edit Comments Highlighting the new items in the comment list Missing in action are the spiffy vlogging features introduced last week in WordPress For BlackBerry. While iPhone users may be envious of the BlackBerry […]

The New York Times has introduced a new Freakonomics podcast: Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, are books that explore “the hidden side of everything.” Now there’s a Freakonomics podcast, hosted by Dubner. Prepare to be enlightened, engaged, perhaps enraged, and definitely surprised. You can subscribe by adding this podcast feed to […]

Bodelin has updated ProPrompter (App Store link), its $9.99 app that turns your iPhone into a teleprompter. ProPrompter can be used in conjunction with an iPhone camera mount to create a cheap teleprompting system. Features: Smooth scrolling teleprompter software Remote Control your scroll pace with a second device installed with the ProPrompter app Create or […]