Audio Podcasting

FlyTunes Brings Streaming Audio, Video Podcasts To iPhone

May 16th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Internet TV, Mobile Podcasting, Podcast Distribution, Streaming Video, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

Mobile broadcast network FlyTunes has added video and audio podcasts to its offerings, in addition to a new user interface and a customizable channel guide.
The new video and audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment, politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. FlyTunes now offers users over 350 channels [...]



Audacity Update

May 9th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting Software

The Audacity Team has announced the release of Audacity v1.3.5 beta for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix.
Audacity is a free, open source audio editing application that is popular with podcasters.
Changes in the new version include improvements and new features for recording, import/export and the user interface.
Here are the details:



Todd Cochrane: Raw Opinions On The State Of Podcasting

May 8th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Networks, Video Podcasts

Todd Cochrane is the CEO of Raw Voice, a longtime podcaster at Geek News Central and helps connect podcasters with advertisers via his Blubrry podcast network.
He’s also known for having strong opinions, on topics ranging from the PodShow/Mevio name change to the quality of podcasters’ RSS feeds.
I asked Todd about his perspective on user-generated content [...]



Radionomy Lets You Create Free Web Radio Station

May 8th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Services

Radionomy, a Belgian startup, is a site that lets you create a free, ad-supported Web radio station
The site, now in beta testing, is designed to make creating a Web radio station trivial, letting you browse through vast music, jingle and content libraries made available by Radionomy. You can also integrate your own musical creations or [...]



Nine Inch Nails Goes Creative Commons With The Slip

May 5th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Digital Music, Podcast-Legal Music

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 high-quality MP3, [...]



Urban Outfitters Selling Podcasting Kits

May 3rd, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Computer Hardware, General, Podcasting Hardware

In the last year or so, everybody and their mother seems to have taken time off from the social media fad of the day to blog that podcasting is dead:

Information Week says podcasting is dead.
John Dvorak says podcasting is dead.
The Bioscience Education Journal says podcasting is dead.
PodShow thinks podcasting is dead, so it changed its [...]



Adam Curry’s Podcasting Setup

Apr 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, How to Podcast, Podcasting Hardware

Podcast pioneer and former MTV VJ Adam Curry shared this image of his podcasting setup on Flickr.
This is his rig for recording Daily Source Code. It shows how you can get a professional podcast from a relatively modest setup. (It helps to have Curry’s 20+ years of media experience, obviously!)
I spy what looks to be [...]



A Sustainable Crop of Earth Day Podcasts

Apr 22nd, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Video Podcasts

Okay, a confession here: I spent much of Earth Day today, a beautiful sunny day, outdoors. Away from my laptop computer. Away from wi-fi. It seemed a fitting way to celebrate the thirty-ninth annual Earth Day, riding my bike and enjoying cold beverages at a succession of locally-owned establishments.
One thought that kept coming back to [...]



ADM Proposes Downloadable Media Audience Measurement Guidelines

Apr 21st, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Making Money with Podcasts, New Media Organizations, Video Podcasts

The Association for Downloadable Media, a recently-formed industry association “focused on creating standards and guidelines to support the continued and increasing monetization of downloadable media,” last week unveiled proposed guidelines for audience measurement at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco. The draft proposal is open for public discussion and comment for the coming thirty days [...]



Odeo Back In Beta

Apr 18th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Streaming Video, Video Podcasts

Odeo, an early podcasting startup that has long struggled with its direction, is back, in beta and looking for feedback.
While the original site focused on podcast creation, the focus of Odeo’s latest incarnation focuses on viewing and listening to Internet media.
Give it a look and let me know what you think of the makeover!