Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane has announced the tentative schedule for the 24 Hour Podcast, a marathon celebration of indie media scheduled for December 20-21st. Here’s what Todd has to say about the event: I kick off the event at 6am HST / 8am PST / 11am EST and go for 24 hours straight. We […]

The news was not unexpected, yet somehow was still surprising when it came today. The two big (for-profit) new media conferences, Blog World Expo and the New Media Expo are combining into a new annual event, The Blog World & New Media Expo. The hybrid conference inaugural run will be at the Las Vegas Convention […]

Podcasters Across Borders co-founder and organizer Mark Blevis sent word that registration for PAB2009 is opening today (December 1, 2008) at midnight Eastern Time. The three-day podcasting and new media conference is scheduled for June 19/20/21, 2009, in Kingston, Ontario (Canada). This is the fourth year of the event, which focuses on not just podcast […]

PodCamp co-founder Chris Penn has posted his thoughts on the future of PodCamps, a series of user-organized podcasting conferences. Penn offers six suggestions for 2009 PodCamp organizers: Use the tools! 2008 showed rapid growth in every social network of note, and as organizers, the more you can help people meet and greet prior to the […]

A note on Mark Blevis’ blog tipped us off that PodCamp Ottawa is happening this Sunday at the National Arts Centre from 9:45 am to 4 pm. The un-conference theme is “Fresh Thinking and Approaches.” One of the freshest things I noticed on the event main page is the advice to bring a floor pillow […]

For the second year in a row, Blubrry’s Todd Cochrane plans to abuse his body in the name of podcasting by hosting a 24-Hour Podcast Marathon – a non stop, 24-hour live streaming event that will cover podcasting, technology, new media, podcast advertising and a host of other topics. This year’s 24hr Podcast event kicks […]

Barack Obama has soundly beaten John McCain and it’s clear that Obama’s new media strategy played a big part in this win.

While McCain pulled back from new media and focused his attention on core supporters via old media, Obama got his message out anywhere people were listening.

PodcampAZ Day 1 from Clintus McGintus on Vimeo. Clintus McGintus offers his take on PodCamp AZ, Day 1.

Professional podcast training event company and publisher The Podcast Academy is “opening the vault” for a week, offering for sale a set of audio recordings of all the sessions, panels, and keynote addresses from the 2006, 2007, and 2008 New Media Expo. “I decided to offer a historical look at podcasting,” said Podcast Academy editor-in-chief […]

The Podcast Awards has announced its slate of nominees for the 2008 Podcast Awards.  This is the fourth year of the event, which has the goal of recognizing the best podcasters, nominated and chosen by podcast fans. Voting will open on October 23rd with voting closing November 6th, at 2359.