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 […]

World travel publishing house Lonely Planet recently announced the winners of their 2009 Lonely Planet Travel Blog Awards contest. The winner of the sole podcast award in the bunch is the Indie Travel Podcast. Indie Travel Podcast is the brainchild of Craig and Linda Martin, a husband-and-wife team of traveling podcasters. Craig Martin’s profile explains, […]

Technology and new media conference South By Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) is just wrapping up in Austin, Texas.  The five day event featured panel discussions, “celebrity geek” interviews, vendor exhibits — and lots and lots of parties. We have asked some of our friends and colleagues who attended this year’s SxSWi to share their highlights and […]

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 […]

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 […]

The sight of workers with smudgy foreheads yesterday when I was downtown reminded me that it was Ash Wednesday, and the beginning of the Lenten season which leads up to Easter. The Catholic Online website reports that Massachusetts-based blogger and musician, Susan Bailey, is publishing a daily podcast during the forty days of Lent. “Theosis” […]

The Kansas City Weather Podcast has celebrated its fourth birthday – and with nearly daily episodes since its inception, it now has more than 1,300 episodes.

We talked to KC Weather Podcast creator Ed Roberts about his thoughts on starting his podcast’s fifth year.

UK dance record label Toolroom Records has two podcast series that are worth a listen, if you like house music. Toolroom founder and DJ Mark Knight hosts a monthly show featuring full tracks from some of the label’s artists, remixes of other songs, and a minimum of news and banter. It’s mostly music. A second […]

I’ll bet you wondered how I knew? Well, the ABC-tv affilliate in Chicago reports that Motown is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary with a series of podcasts about the legendary label, its artists, and classic songs. The series promises to be mighty-mighty: The first episode features Smokey Robinson’s recollections of Motown’s early days. Bi-weekly episodes range […]

Looking at the current economic climate is, for the most part, an unhappy activity. Reports about retail sales, advertising, employment, stock prices, and industrial activity from the past several quarters is dismal. Forecasts for the year to come are gloomy. Two, or five, or ten years from now, we will all look back with a […]