Recently Apple announced that they were revising the podcasting categories at iTunes and asked that podcasters update their RSS feeds “as soon as possible”. If you’re a podcaster and haven’t updated your feed yet, ProfCast has released a free online tool that may help. The converter allows you to enter the URL for a published […]

IBM has introduced the ShortCuts podcast series, a podcast that provides technology tips on current trends and issues such as computer security, instant messaging etiquette, and email management. The four-minute audio shows are intended to give listeners short, practical advice that can be applied at work or at home.The latest episode looks at Beating Spyware […]

iTrain offers downloadable audio workout programs from professional trainers. A variety of workout plans are available, including iTrain, iClimb, iTread, iCycle and iStrength. Pricing ranges from $.99 per session to $49.99 for a year’s worth of downloads. There are already a large variety of health podcasts and fitness podcasts.Podcasters are also creating music podcasts for […]

The Podcast Peer Awards, a community of podcasters organized to recognize quality podcasts, is looking for podcasters to take part in its nomination and voting process.Membership at the site is limited to podcasters who have done at least six shows and who have been podcasting for at least three months. Members have access to a […]

Podcast pioneer Dave Winer, who wrote the RSS 2.0 standard on which podcast distribution is built, has started building what he describes as a “community podcasting directory.” Winer intends to recreate iPodder.org (now IndiePodder.org), one of the earliest podcast directories. iPodder’s architecture was unique, because it was a distributed directory built on Outline Processor Markup […]

WildVoice, a podcast and media sharing community now in beta, has add introduced a new web-based recorder, “Shout.” The application is designed to let anyone with a PC, an Internet connection and a microphone record a podcast or post comments to other podcasts at the site. “Podcasting is about having fun and encouraging free expression […]

Company intranets need to add blogging and podcasting or else become irrelevant, according to a new report from Avenue A | Razorfish, an interactive marketing and technology services firm.”Employees today are expecting, and increasingly demanding, the same compelling web site experiences at work that they receive in their personal time,” said Shiv Singh, national director […]

The New York Times Company’s International Herald Tribune (IHT) is beta-testing a service that lets users select articles to receive and have them automatically translated into a custom podcast. The service uses text-to-speech technology to convert news items into a podcast. “Articles are read by the latest text-to-speech technologies using professional readers whose recordings are […]

A new company promises to be the first podcasting supergroup, bringing together two influential pioneers of podcasting, Doug Kaye (IT Conversations, The Conversations Network) and Michael Geoghegan, right, (Reel Reviews, Grape Radio, and the DisneyLand Podcast).During the Gnomedex 6.0 conference last weekend, Kaye announced the launch of GigaVox Media, Inc., a for-profit partner company of […]

A new site, Okay to Play, has launched that features “comparison charts which help podcasters make educated decisions regarding audio advertising sales companies, podsafe music, recording hardware, and more.”Currently, the site offers charts on podcast flash players, portable audio recorders, podcast advertising companies, and music providors. The site plans to add listener submitted reviews, editorial, […]