Some podcasters are concerned that PodShow’s updated site may still be “hijacking” podcaster’s feeds.In a post to the Podcasting News forum, David Shapiro (of the Next Big Hit) writes that “Popular non podshow podcasts have rewritten feed links for WMP, Winamp and Realplayer.” “We never asked for these feeds to be created for Next Big […]

Peter Davis, via Scoble, asks “Why listen to a podcast when you can get ten times the content when you read?” Davis questions the growing popularity of podcasts. “This is an inefficient means of receiving information. In the time I can listen to an average podcast, I could have caught up on my 50 favorite […]

The winners of the 10th Annual Webby Awards have been announced. Yahoo! Podcasts was the winner in the Podcasts category. This is the first year that a Podcasts Webby is being awarded. Winners will be honored at a June 12th gala in New York City.

Longtime podcaster and new media consultant C.C. Chapman made an appearance on cable news channel CNN Tuesday, where he talked about how the coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration by social media: Embedded video from CNN Video Chapman created an early standout among music podcasts with his Accident Hash series. He also hosts the Managing the […]

The new features in iTunes 8 haven’t impressed me. Genius is mainly a way for Apple to sell you more music, and the new views in iTunes are very slow, compared to the older list views.  Something that is very useful in iTunes 8, though, is its support for individual podcast settings: This is a […]

This is one of a series of videos by Frances Pinter and David Percy that look at building businesses based on Creative Commons licenses. It takes a look at Magnatune, a digital music store built on CC licenses, and the company’s founder, John Buckman. Creative Commons licenses are a set of free tools designed to […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an off-the-record explanation from an RIAA official on how they identify colleges and universities to target: The official explained that one way the RIAA identifies pirates is by using LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer file-sharing program that is free online and used by many college students (there is also a […]

Nine Inch Nails has announced that it is giving away its latest album, The Slip, for free: as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com. the music is available in a variety of formats including […]

It looks like podcasting pioneer Dave Winer took issue with Mashable’s rant about their inability to get advertisers interested in their podcast ideas. Winer also took issue with our response. We said that if you want to podcast professionally, you have to start thinking like a professional podcaster. “Both sides of this argument are full […]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today sent another new wave of 411 threatening letters to 19 universities nationwide. The RIAA sent letters to these schools schools: Drexel University (17 letters) Indiana University (23) Northern Illinois University (25) Occidental College (19) State University of New York at Morrisville (18) Texas Christian University (20) Tufts […]