Podcast community site Blubrry has introduced 4 new features:
Show promos - This will make it easier for listeners to get a quick introduction to a show and allow podcasters in the network to more easily promote each other.
Audio embed - this feature gives members added exposure beyond Blubrry and their own websites.
Surveys - this is [...]
Registration is now open for PodCamp Pittsburgh 4, scheduled for October 10th and 11th at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
PodCamp Pittsburgh started out as a podcasting unconference, but has grown to cover a variety of new media/social media topics.
“We have seen a surge of interest in social media this year — not just blogs and [...]
Here’s another music video shot entirely on an iPhone 3GS. (We featured the first iPhone 3GS music video earlier this week.).
The song is Play by BJSR.
The Making of Raul’s World of Synths is a short documentary, created as a school project, that outlines Raul Pena’s process for creating his synthesizer podcast, Raul’s World Of Synths.
This video demonstrates how The 88 used Sonoma Wire Works FourTrack (App Store link) to record their latest single, Love Is The Thing, on an iPhone.
FourTrack is $9.99, which is amazing, considering it transforms your iPhone into a functional recording studio that can be used for recording music, podcast production and other mobile new media [...]
Steve Ellington’s Technologic Overkill claims to be the first music video shot on an iPhone 3GS.
The song by XFYA accompanies a video about the plight of a little blue robot and his attempt to be relevant in an increasingly technological world.
It’s not destined to be a classic - but it’s an impressive reminder that cell [...]
A UK neighborhood group is commemorating the “litter louts” that are trashing up their neighborhood by videotaping them and publishing the videos on the Internet.
According to the group:
One of the biggest issues here in terms of its impact on the community here is litter. And it has been so for quite some time.
It is so [...]
PaidContent has an interesting list of 10 magazines that have bit the dust in the last six months.
The list includes some heavy hitters:
Alpha Media Group: Blender—March (Online only)—Down 30.6
Hearst: CosmoGirl—December-January (Online only)—Down 10.9 percent
Condé Nast: Domino—January (Shuttered)—Down 4.1 percent
Hallmark Cards: Hallmark Magazine—February-March (Shuttered)—Up 11 percent
Condé Nast: Portfolio—May (Online only)—Up 2 percent
Hearst: Oprah At Home—January (Shuttered)—Ad [...]
In this BigThink video, Steve Rubel discusses his thoughts on why Twitter matters:
Question: How significant is Twitter as a marketing vehicle?
Steve Rubel: It’s huge right now and I stress the words “right now.” What’s interesting about Twitter is as a marketing vehicle is that, one, it has a huge community and growing. Years ago when [...]
Podcasting network Wizzard Media today announced that it served over 13,700,000 podcast ad impressions through its Alchemy advertising technology in the quarter ending June 30, 2009. This represents an increase of 251% year-to-year and a 46% increase from the 9.4 million ad impressions served in the first quarter of 2009.
Wizzard Ad Impression History
2008 – Q2 [...]