Former Senator John Breaux today announced the launch of a Ceasefire on Health Care podcast, designed to further spread the results of the Ceasefire on Health Care campaign. “Health care will be a pivotal issue in the 2006 midterm and 2008 presidential elections,” said Senator Breaux. “We want the podcast to avoid the partisanship and […]

Nielsen//NetRatings announced today that 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast. 4.0 percent, or 5.6 million Web users, have recently downloaded a video podcast. These figures put the podcasting population on a par with those who publish blogs, 4.8 percent, and online daters, […]

While it may not qualify as a milestone for podcasting, podcasts made the comics this week. The Non Sequitor comic for July 19th features podcasts…..as the punchline.

The seminar schedule for the online Women’s Podcasting Expo, being held July 14-16, 2006, has been announced. Over 25 experts in women’s issues, business and online media will present over 30 seminars and podcasts. Three (3) seminars are open to the public, including: “How To Create A Powerful Platform – Learn How To Consistently Out-Compete […]

Beset by bad press in the blogosphere about this past week’s launch of PodShow + and its apparent hijacking of podcasters’ RSS feeds, PodShow founder Adam Curry addresses the issue in Saturday’s episode of his podcast, Daily Source Code.He talked about being away, attending the memorial service for his mother, who passed away last weekend, […]

The Podcast Satellite Network (PSN) is offering podcasters the opportunity to purchase air time on an all-podcast satellite radio broadcast. The company plans to launch the Network in August, 2006. According to PSN, “the Network has been created to uniquely serve the needs of podcasters looking for exposure to a significant second audience. PSN plans […]

People planning on travelling to Austin for NAMM Summer Session 2006, a music and recording industry convention being held July 14-16, should check out the Austin Connection podcast. In the podcast, host Jeffrye Glenn Tveraas talks to some of the best songwriters and musicians in the Austin area, and captures them performing their tunes and […]

Some podcasters are concerned that PodShow’s updated site may still be “hijacking” podcaster’s feeds.In a post to the Podcasting News forum, David Shapiro (of the Next Big Hit) writes that “Popular non podshow podcasts have rewritten feed links for WMP, Winamp and Realplayer.” “We never asked for these feeds to be created for Next Big […]

PodShow, which has come under heated criticism because the updated PodShow site hijacked podcasters feeds, has quickly updated their site to fix the problem.Instead of linking to podcasters’ original podcast feeds, PodShow was rewriting feeds, removing podcasters’ copyright notices and republishing them under PodShow URLs. PodShow was quick to respond to the firestorm that erupted […]

Some podcasters are “pissed” at PodShow, a podcast portal founded by podcasting pioneer Adam Curry. The site appears to be republishing podcaster’s podcast feeds, with changes, under PodShow URLs.”What was Podshow thinking?” asks Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane. “Podshow has hijacked every listed podcasters RSS Feed, stripped out data and inserted their own info.” The […]