In this exclusive interview, audiobook podcasting pioneer Scott Sigler explains how he used his podcast to get a book deal and even a movie deal, how he uses social media to promote his work and why he wants to kill you off in his next book.
Want to see a great example of a podcast audio tour?
The Friends of the Public Garden in Boston have launched a Public Garden Audio Tour podcast, a self-guided audio walking tour. The audio tour is available as a free download at the Friends of the Public Garden website, and as a podcast on iTunes. Visitors [...]
At the Digital Watch blog, Steven Lin has posted an interesting article looking at Why Podcasting Never Killed the Radio Star in China:
Three years ago, an article from Time magazine changed my life. “Will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?” The idea of a automatically-downloaded multi-media feed changing the new media landscape blew my mind. In [...]
Podcasters from throughout North America gathered in Kingston, Ontario, last weekend for the third annual Podcasters Across Borders conference.
Here is a quick rundown of some of the coverage of the event by participants and presenters at PAB08:
Financial Aid Podcast and social media superhero Chris Penn talks a little bit about the “battle” (heated discussion) between [...]
Alesis has introduced the ProTrack, a device that turns an iPod into a professional handheld digital stereo recorder.
Two high-quality condenser microphones are built-in, fixed in XY stereo configuration. ProTrack also offers users a pair of combination XLR - 1/4-inch inputs for connection for external microphones and line sources. When running on plug-in power using the [...]
Microsoft today announced the release of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), a free, open source podcasting kit that offers organizations a centralized solution to create, manage and distribute podcasts.
Built on the SharePoint Server and Microsoft Silverlight platforms, and compatible with the Zune, PCs and other devices that play podcasts (ie., iPods & iPhones), the [...]
ExtraLabs has updated Skype Recorder, its Windows app that can automatically record Skype calls.
Skype is popular with podcasters because it lets you make free digital calls to anyone with an Internet connection.
The software record into MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV formats, recording conversations in either single or dual audio tracks and even has a built-in FTP-client for uploading files.
The [...]
A reminder that there’s a podcast for just about anything:
Flyers worried about being able to remember what they can and cannot take in and out of the UK have received aid in the form of a podcast.
Downloadable from the HM Revenue & Customs website, the free audio podcast sees customs expert Mark Fuchter detail which [...]
The Mindanao News and Information Cooperative Center, a cooperative composed of independent, professional journalists, has teamed with Jean Claire A. Dy, a Media Arts professor at Univ. Phillipines Mindanao, to create a Digital Storytelling Center Mindanao. While the project initially was created for the college students to store their stories, the partnership with the journalists [...]
An intriguing short note Wednesday on Twitter tipped us off to SteamPod, a new podcast series “using the steam powered Victrola to listen to stories from the era called Steampunk.”
For those not familiar with steampunk, it is a sub-category of fantasy or alternate-history fiction which first gained popularity 20 - 25 years ago. Many steampunk [...]