Macgasm’s Joshua Schnell has posted his thoughts on using an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad as an iOS podcasting rig. Count him as converted: Today my system consisted of Mic > Mixer > iRig > iPod touch. It worked out a lot better than I thought it would. So well in fact that I might […]

eMusician magazine takes a look at DIY options for music promotion in their latest issue, and recommends using podcasts and new media: New media includes blogs, podcasts, vidcasts (video podcasts), and websites. These outlets vary in audience size, subject, and professionalism, especially because most are run by people who are passionate about the topics they […]

Ambrosia Software has announced the release of WireTap Anywhere 2.0, a major update to the audio routing and mixing software – a popular tool for Mac-based podcasters. WireTap Anywhere can take the audio output from any combination of Mac applications or hardware input devices, and route it into your favorite audio processing applications. The new 2.0 […]

The first Canadian National Day of Podcasting Is December 1st, notes Canadian podcast pioneer Mark Blevis: December 1 has been selected as the one-time, no money down officially unofficial Canadian National Day of Podcasting. The idea is to have every Canadian podcaster, particularly those who have retired or otherwise killed their podcast, from all time dust off […]

Remember when Apple was the king of tools for creating your own media and it was hyping podcasting and user-generated media? When Steve Jobs bragged about the company hitting milestones with its iTunes podcast directory? When it added podcasting support to Mac OS X? And when podcasting was a selling point for Garageband? It looks […]

Audio podcasts now reach about half as many people as Internet radio.

Accoding to a new survey of Internet users, 31% listen to radio via the Internet and 16% listen to podcasts.

Podcasting community blubrry announced a 31 percent ad revenue increase for the second quarter of 2010, reflecting new ad buys on 27% more shows hosted on Blubrry, Tech Podcasts Network and other RawVoice subsidiaries. CEO Todd Cochrane attributes the increase to podcast advertisers seeing a healthy return on their investment and because of their podcasts’ […]

WordPress.com has announced a new feature,  Post by Voice, that lets you audio blog by phone. Here’s what WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg has to say about it: You can now go to your My Blogs tab, enable Post by Voice, and get a special number and code to call your blog. After you’re done, the […]

Podcasts are about to break into some new territory. Commercial Radio Australia and Beijing Jolon Digital Media Broadcasting today announced plans to develop a DAB+ digital radio application that will allow podcasts to be sent via the broadcast band directly to a listener’s radio, without the need to connect to the Internet. The technology, called […]

WordPress quietly added some hosting options to its WordPress.com content platform that could be welcome for podcasters: Based on feedback we received from our users, we decided to add two new space upgrade options: 50GB and 100GB. To access either of these upgrade levels, go to your blog’s dashboard and click on Upgrades. Select the […]