Edison Research’s Tom Webster, who has been researching and reporting on podcasting for years now, has some interesting thoughts on promoting your podcast through social networking sites like MySpace and Twitter:
Change occurs at the margin, and it would be unwise to ignore the increasing popularity and utility of the various social networking sites.
However, as a [...]

Common Craft put together this fun and simple intro to podcasting.
The video is licensed with a Creative Commons license, so you can copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes.

The Association for Downloadable Media, an industry group focusing on podcasting and new media, today unveiled proposed advertising standards for use with downloadable media. The proposed ad units are offered with an eye toward making negotiations smoother between content creators and advertisers.
The proposed standards were presented Wednesday morning in an ADM forum at the ad:tech [...]

Kids just got a great justification for getting bigger iPods - PBS & Apple have added a large variety of educational programming to iTunes U:
From The War: A film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick to The Jewish Americans: A Series by David Grubin to Meet the Author, featuring more than 40 interviews with top [...]

Call Graph is a “simple and good” plugin for Skype for recording calls.
Features:

Call Recording: record your calls in an mp3 file, automatically.
Full Skype Support: record Skype to Skype, SkypeIn, SkypeOut calls.
Completely Free: no limits or restrictions of any kind.
Manage Records: use tags to mark your records.
Integrated Search: use tags to search through your calls records.
Simple [...]

PodCamp, the free podcasting unconference, is coming to Ohio, on Saturday, June 28, 2008 at the ITT Technical Institute in Hilliard.
PodCamp Ohio offers an opportunity for attendees to learn, share or grow their new media skills. They can attend informal sessions, created and driven by participants, about podcasts, blogs, digital music, web video and related [...]

Podcasting with Movable Type just got easier with Byrne Reese’s release of the latest version of the Podcasting Plugin for Movable Type.
iTunes support has been improved, making it easier to get your podcast listed properly within the iTunes Music Store.
In addition, this release adds the following features:

a complete RSS feed that includes all of the [...]

Podcasters Across Borders, a Canadian podcasting unconference, has announced its schedule for the 2008 event, being held June 20-22 in Kingston, Ontario:
Friday, June 20, 2008

1:00pm Video production workshop (Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis)
2:00pm Social (Media) Science (Dave Brodbeck)
3:00pm Community: Why It���s the ONLY thing that matters (Whitney Hoffman)
7:30pm PAB2008 Kick-off (Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis)

Saturday, [...]

TalkShoe has introduced an iPhone application that lets you participate or conduct community calls from your phone and even lets you use the service to create podcasts.
Features:

iPhone users can join live calls and view upcoming calls they may want to participate in.
The iPhone application provides a one click link to auto dial-in and participate in [...]

With the release of Apple TV Take 2, Apple is putting podcasts and video podcasts front and center in people’s living rooms. This means that your podcast now needs to look great in HD.
Here are 5 ways to update your podcast for Apple TV Take 2:

Increase the resolution of your video podcast. Apple strongly [...]