Zoom is now shipping the Zoom Q3, a $249 pocket-cam that promises to be “the best sounding video camcorder you’ve ever heard.” The Zoom Q3 looks like it should be a great camcorder for “prosumer” level video podcasting and video blogging. The Q3 has two condenser mics on-board, in an X/Y pattern in order to […]

Podcasts just got another dose of mainstream validation. The NYTimes reports that podcasts are now eligible for National Magazine Awards: Podcasters, rejoice, for you are now eligible for a National Magazine Award. The creators of the prestigious awards plan to announce on Wednesday that they are adding 12 new categories covering online media. The categories […]

Is time for WordPress-based podcasters to dump the once-pioneering podcasting plugin PodPress?

blubrry has announced that PowerPress 1.0 is now available, and it supports all the key PodPress features……

Want to know how to make money podcasting? You could do worse than to look at the example of Leo Laporte, the creator of This Week in Tech and the TWiT podcast network. He spoke before the Online News Association this week and discussed his experiences with making money with podcasting and new media. According […]

Mashable has published an interesting post that looks at 9 ways to make money with podcasting. Here are the options they suggest: 9 Ways To Make Money Podcasting Sign up with a podcast network such as Mevio, Podtrac, and Wizzard Media Get your own sponsors Be like public TV and beg for donations Tease people […]

Can you podcast physical things? Most people think of podcasting in a fairly limited sense. – for example, radio shows that you can download automatically. We’ve always had a broader view, that podcasting was the publishing of downloadable files with an RSS 2.0 news feed. With that in mind, you can use podcasting to automatically […]

Good news for new media publishers – Internet media is rapidly becoming the biggest channel for advertising. The Guardian reports that the UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on internet advertising than on television advertising, with a record £1.75bn online spend in the first six months of the year. This […]

CollegeCrunch has put together a great list of 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter: One of the more underrated benefits of the internet era has been access to quality radio style programming at any time of the day or night. Just like DVRs have freed us from having to adhere to rigid television program […]

Dave Winer, the author of the RSS 2.0 specification on which podcast feeds are based, is working on a new project, to bootstrap real-time podcast feeds: We’re trying to bootstrap a network of realtime feeds, and it’s going pretty well so far. Podcasts are implemented with RSS too, and while we have excellent examples of […]

Podcasts may not make you rich, but they may make you skinny. In a recent study, researchers found that people that listened to a diet podcast based on social cognitive science lost 9 times as much weight as people listened to a regular diet podcast. The study, Pounds Off Digitally (POD) Study: A Randomized Podcasting […]