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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Earlier in the week, we reported that free podcast hosting site WildVoice.com was abruptly shutting down.
blubrry’s Todd Cochrane has announced a special for former WildVoice users:
The team at Blubrry is sad to see another Podcast Hosting and Podcast Media site going off-line. However, the news of WildVoice shutting down July 1 means podcasters hosted at [...]
Users of free podcast host WildVoice.com have been notified that the service will cease operation next month. The latest (and perhaps last?) post on the company blog states:
“We will no longer be supporting the WildVoice.com site as of July 1, 2009. The site will shutdown sometime on or after that date.
We’re sure you’ve noticed that [...]
This weekend marks the inaugural run of the Pride 48 podcast marathon. The two day event kicked off Friday evening, and showcases several dozen GLBT podcast shows throughout the weekend.
I recently talked with John Ong, a Kansas City podcaster I know from PodCamp Midwest, whose Ongline Podcast will be part of Pride 48.
Elisabeth McLaury Lewin: [...]
In 2008, podcasting, vlogging and new media in general were effectively banned from the Olympics.
For future events, the Olympics has to embrace new media, according to Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger, because the rules governing who can report from the Olympic Games are outdated in the age of Twitter.
In a speech to the International Olympics Committee [...]
The infamous 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City marked the birth of the modern Gay Pride movement in the United States. Since then, the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered) community in the United States have observed Gay Pride month during the month of June.
Tomorrow, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, [...]