According to a new new NYU research report – Does Chatter Matter? – user-generated content, including blogs and social networking sites, should be considered an important tool for promoting music and predicting sales. Researchers looked at the usefulness of user-generated content in predicting sales in the music industry. They tracked the changes in online chatter […]

Mark Linder, the creator of the Bedtime Stories My Kids Love podcast, has reached an agreement with the newly formed PodShow Press to publish in both audio and print form his first book of bedtime stories, The Adventures of the Man in the Can. The new work is a collection of stories about a character […]

Utterz, a service that lets you post multimedia to blogs and social networks from your mobile phone, has expanded its service to 17 new countries. The company has also introduced new online video and audio capture, and ‚Äúconversational threading‚Äù capabilities to help users engage and connect with friends, followers and social groups, both online and […]

We’ve been fans of SkinnyCorp for several years now. We saw their founders on a panel at South by Southwest in 2006, and they wowed us with their corporate philosophy. We were already fans of the funky t-shirts they sell at Threadless (the punny “communist party” and “hypotamoose” t-shirts are in heavy rotation in the […]

The US audience for podcasts will more than double in the next two years, growing from 6.5 million (active weekly downloaders) in 2007 to 14 million in 2009. According to a new report by eMarketer The total US podcast audience reached 18.5 million in 2007; The total audience will increase by 251% to 65 million […]

It looks like podcasting pioneer Dave Winer took issue with Mashable’s rant about their inability to get advertisers interested in their podcast ideas. Winer also took issue with our response. We said that if you want to podcast professionally, you have to start thinking like a professional podcaster. “Both sides of this argument are full […]

Here’s a use for podcasts that we haven’t heard of before – the Pasadena Tournament of Roses is offering an audio tour (iTunes link) of the floats featured in the 119th Rose Parade today. The audio files were created to enhance the viewing experiences of visitors at Post Parade: A Showcase of Floats. The free […]

Paul Figgiani and Doug Kaye have made a great how-to video that shows how to use Skype to get broadcast-quality recordings:

This video offers a short tutorial on using the free Audacity audio editor for creating audio 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.