Folks who were old enough to watch television in the early 1970s will remember a Reese’s Peaut Butter Cup commercial about “two great tastes, that taste great together”? I was reminded of this today when I discovered a podcast episodes that combines two great topics, robots and stage drama, that seem awfully weird together — […]

“Inside the FBI” is a podcast from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that looks at current national crime-fighting issues. The latest episode focuses on a recent flood of threatening phone calls, coming from overseas via VoIP, made to Chinese-Americans. Special Agent Dean Phillips, Chief of the Asian-African Criminal Enterprise Unit in the Organized Crime Section, […]

The British Library has mounted a major exhibition to commemorate the accession to the throne of larger-than-life monarch King Henry VIII. “Henry VIII: Man and Monarch“  provides new insights into one of England’s most memorable monarchs, featuring some of the King’s personal belongings, as well as a love letter he wrote to his mistress, Anne […]

The Berklee College of Music has a wonderful, eclectic music podcast that is worth checking out. The music school, based in Boston, is home to 4,000 students (and two record labels), and alumni run the gamut from Diana Krall to Melissa Etheridge, Quincy Jones to Aimee Mann, Howard Shore to John Mayer. The monthly “Sounds […]

HD voice applications developer WYDE Voice has partnered with Podference.com to make a hybrid all-in-one conference calling – podcasting – syndicating machine. The new product merges Podference’s automated podcasting and syndication (RSS, publishing) teleconferencing software with WYDE Voice’s scalable conferencing bridge. In layman’s terms, the moderator of a conference call wields “full control” of the […]

Ben Affleck is the featured guest on the latest episode of media production podcast, “The Rough Cut.” Affleck will participate in a podcast with Avid Technology, maker of software tools for film, video, audio, and broadcast production, discussing his work as a director, producer and editor. Avid brands include Digidesign, M-Audio, and Sibelius. The Rough […]

When his weekday show was suddenly cancelled in a sweeping format change, nationally syndicated radio host Adam Carolla launched a free daily podcast -  a podcast with a quarter million listens within 24 hours of the first episode posting. Wednesday, live streaming video service Stickam announced that it “will be the exclusive streamer for Adam […]

Popular GLBT website and podcast Feast of Fools: Gay Fun Show has changed its name, and will now be known as Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show, or, as creator and host Fausto Fernos says,”just “Feast of Fun” or just plain FOF.” Fernos, who hosts the weekly show with his partner Marc Felion, explains the […]

Podcasting is going mainstream, at least according to eMarketer: Podcasting has evolved from an odd, funky blogging experiment into a broad medium with mainstream trappings. Today, the vast majority of the top-rated podcasts come from recognizable media entities that are using podcasts to expand their existing radio, TV, cable or satellite audiences. They peg the […]

The U.S. Small Business Administration has recently upgraded its podcast resources for small business owners. The SBA is an independent federal government agency which works to “aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation.” The SBA […]