This tutorial takes a look at how to make enhanced podcasts with GarageBand. An ‘enhanced podcast’ is an audio podcast that can also contain images, chapter markers, hyperlinks, and artwork, synced to the audio. When an enhanced podcast is played on a compatible device, the additional information will be displayed in time with the audio podcast.

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.

Warren Ellis is probably best known as a graphic novelist.  He has worked over the past 16 years at both DC and Marvel Comics, as well as Caliber Comics, Image Comics, and Avatar [under the “imaginary” imprint Apparat], and is author of the prose novel Crooked Little Vein. He has created stories about such comic […]

The New York Times has introduced a new Freakonomics podcast: Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, are books that explore “the hidden side of everything.” Now there’s a Freakonomics podcast, hosted by Dubner. Prepare to be enlightened, engaged, perhaps enraged, and definitely surprised. You can subscribe by adding this podcast feed to […]

Apple has announced its picks (iTunes link) for the best podcasts of 2009, breaking them out into four categories: This Year’s Audio Podcasts – The Adam Carolla Podcast topped the list. Other noted include Robert Ashley’s A Live Well Wasted, WTF with Marc Maron, The Memory Palace and Norman Centuries. This Year’s Video Podcasts – […]

Nonprofit storytelling organization The Moth has a simple little podcast story for Halloween that, while not in the slightest bit explicitly violent or gory, manages to be scary. Scary in that way that makes the little hairs on the back of the neck stand up, you know? Writer and performer Joan Juliet Buck tells the […]

CollegeCrunch has put together a great list of 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter: One of the more underrated benefits of the internet era has been access to quality radio style programming at any time of the day or night. Just like DVRs have freed us from having to adhere to rigid television program […]

Podcasts may not make you rich, but they may make you skinny. In a recent study, researchers found that people that listened to a diet podcast based on social cognitive science lost 9 times as much weight as people listened to a regular diet podcast. The study, Pounds Off Digitally (POD) Study: A Randomized Podcasting […]

A prelaunch webcast, live blogs, podcast, pictures and videos will highlight NASA’s Web coverage of space shuttle Endeavour’s STS-127 mission to the International Space Station. Endeavour is scheduled to lift off this Saturday, June 13, at 7:17 a.m. Eastern (US) time, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mission coverage will begin with a webcast […]

New York-based Innovative Language Learning Company today announced the launch of Chineseclass101.com, an “online learning system” that makes use of audio and video podcasts, mobile applications, and other digital tools for learning the Chinese language. “Creating content locally in Beijing is a powerful, strategic advantage of Chineseclass101.com. Beijing Chinese is the form of Mandarin Chinese […]