WordPress.org has announced WordPress for Android, a new mobile client for the popular blogging & podcasting app.

Features:

• Configure and manage multiple blogs
• Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
• Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
• Create and Edit Pages
• Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar

It’s a free download. An iPhone client is also available.

There’s been a lot of discussion in the last week about Apple’s decision to not support Flash on the upcoming iPad.

Early iPad users are going to see a lot of blue boxes, right, where their audio and video file would otherwise be. And publishers are going to have to decide if it’s worth the trouble to update their sites to work with the new devices.

While many decry Apple’s decision, web standards guru Jeffrey Zeldman has this to say about Apple’s decision to leave Flash off the iPad:

Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don’t support Flash is going to force recalcitrant web developers to build the semantic HTML layer first.

As the percentage of web users on non-Flash-capable platforms grows, developers who currently create Flash experiences with no fallbacks will have to rethink their strategy and start with the basics before adding a Flash layer. They will need to ensure that content and experience are delivered with or without Flash.

Developers always should have done this, but some don’t. For those who don’t, the growing percentage of users on non-Flash-capable platforms is a wake-up call to get the basics right first.

HTML5, with its built-in support for video and audio, plays perfectly into this new model of computing and browsing; small wonder that Google and Apple’s browsers support these HTML5 features.

This video tutorial, via gigafide, looks at how to create a podcast with Audacity.

Sites referenced in this video include:

• Audacity
• Podango
• Podpress
• MyPodcast
• Podcast411

This video covers how to create a podcast in about 4 minutes, so it doesn’t go into much depth. More information is available under these categories:

• How To Podcast
• Podcasting Hardware
• Podcasting Software

This set of videos, via Steinar Knutsen, demonstrates how to podcast with a Mac.

In addition to covering how to podcast with Mac software, Knutsen touches on these topics:

• MacBook Pro
• Snow Leopard
• Samson CO1U USB Studio Condenser Microphone
• Logitech USB Headphone and Microphone Set
• Apple iPhone 3G
• Voice Memos iPhone App
• AudioBoo iPhone App
• Apple GarageBand
• Apple iWeb
• WordPress.org

There’s been a lot of discussion since the announcement of the Apple iPad over Apple’s decision to not include Flash support on the device.

Apple hasn’t officially explained its decision – but it’s clear that the company wants to marginalize Flash and push a standards-based Web.

Within Apple, though, Steve Jobs minces no words about Adobe and Flash:

They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash.

No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.

Most technology analysts see the lack of Flash support on the iPad as a liability.

But most tech analysts thought the same thing about Apple’s decision to drop the disk drive from the iMac.

And – while Flash is notoriously absent from the iPhone – millions of users don’t seem to care.

Blubrry has released PowerPress 1.05, an update to its free podcast syndication plugin for WordPress.

The release includes several new features and addresses multiple bugs.

PowerPress lets users embed audio and video podcasts into their WordPress sites and create correctly formatted feeds for syndication.

There’s been a lot of debate about the merits of the new Apple iPad since it was announced.

While tech analysts and first adopters are debating the iPad’s strengths and weaknesses, though, it looks like Steve Jobs may have Google, Microsoft, Nintendo, Adobe & Hulu scared that the device could end up being a another hit like the iPod & iPhone:

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt is dismissive of the form-factor of the iPhone, saying “You might want to tell me the difference between a large phone and a tablet.”
• Microsoft is dismissive of the iPad, calling the platform”humorous”;
• Ninendo President also dismisses the iPad, saying “It was a bigger iPod touch”, and “There were no surprises.”
• Adobe brought out the big guns, suggesting that the iPad wouldn’t be able to view pornographic movies because of its lack of Flash support.

Meanwhile, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar says that they are very seriously thinking about creating Hulu apps for the iPad, saying “Mobile is a monster – we are very bullish. We will embrace any device.”

Charlie Brooker does an amazing job, in two minutes, of explaining How To Report The News.

While Brooker does not delve deeply into technical details, there’s much here that would be of use to anyone creating user-generated media.

Podcast fans are a fantastic audience for advertisers to reach, according to a new report from Edison Research and the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM).

Podcast fans are well off financially, they pay attention to ads in podcasts, they’re hard to reach with traditional advertising and they are 6 times as likely to “enjoy” the ads in podcasts as consumers of traditional media.

In other words – people that can afford to turn away from “interruption” style advertising are doing so, and opt-in podcasts are one of the few ways to connect with them.

Highlights of the Podcast Consumer Attitudes study include:

• Podcast fans are significantly more affluent than general population.
• Podcast fans are rapidly turning away from traditional media and “interruption” advertising models.
• 37% of video podcast users and 31% of audio podcast users say they *enjoy* advertising in podcasts. By comparison, only 6% say same of TV and radio.
• Podcasts confer on their advertisers and sponsors a “halo effect; podcast fans give props to the advertiser for sponsoring a show they like.
• Over 70% of active podcast listeners are receptive to sponsorship messages in podcasts.

If further research confirms the findings of this survey, podcast fans could prove to be the ultimate audience for many advertisers.

Check out the detail below and let me know what you think. Is it time for advertisers to take another look at podcasts?

Need proof that podcasts inspire dedicated fans?

Then check this out – the podcast team of Keith Malley and Chemda hit a milestone as Jesse Smith became the 50th fan of the Keith and The Girl podcast to get a tattoo or branding.

This 19-year-old tattooed the letters KATG, in honor of his favorite show, onto the inside of his lower lip. Jesse, a listener of the show for almost 5 years, is about to join the Air Force, and is a dedicated fan of Keith and Chemda.

There are now 48 people who have a Keith and The Girl themed tattoo and 2 others who have branded their skin.

Most notable are Richard Ochoa and Michael Garod.

• Richard has added so many KATG tattoos on his arm that it’s now known as The KATG Sleeve – a mural of KATG references.
• Michael Garod has a huge branding of the KATG logo on his right torso. To create the branding Michael had to endure the outline being cut into his skin that was then slowly filled in by permanently burning his flesh with an electric gun over a period of hours. The event was captured on a recent Keith and The Girl TV episode, which is so barftacular that we embedded it below for your very much viewing pleasure.