Put this in the unsubstantiated rumor category - but AppleInsider is reporting that iPhone firmware 2.2 will add support for wireless downloads:
A tipster shared with us some screenshots of the new firmware, including what appears to be the ability to download podcasts directly to your iPhone (and presumably your iPod touch). This could tidily explain [...]

Ludicrous has released a new WordPress plugin, the snappily named MagpieRSS Hotfix for Enclosure Support and Character Encoding Issues, that enhances the WordPress RSS parser, adding support for RSS enclosures.
This free plugin adds support for RSS enclosures to MagpieRSS, the RSS parser behind the fetch_rss() function in WordPress. It also forces MagpieRSS to use UTF-8 character [...]

Griffin has released a free iPhone application, iTalk Recorder (App Store Link), that lets you record audio with your phone.

You can use the software to record on your iPhone or 2nd generation iPod touch.

This is a video introduction to voXover - a Mac voice-over automation utility and batch-recorder designed for projects that require large numbers of individual audio files to be recorded.

Ardour 2.6, the latest version of the free audio workstation for OS X and Linux, has been released.
This version is notable mostly for many dramatic improvements to GUI performance on OS X (native) and a few very important crashing fixes. But it also contains several interesting and useful new features.
New Features

make libsndfile work with newer [...]

Berkley Integrated Audio Software (BIAS)) has announced iProRecorder (App Store Link), a new $.99 recording application for iPhone and iPod touch.
It’s got a sexy interface and some very interesting features - geotagging and photo tagging of your recordings. 
Description:
User Interface & Recording — iProRecorder utilizes the innovative Multi-Touch user interface so users can quickly record with [...]

nFinity has announce that its QuickVoice Recorder is now available for the 2nd generation iPod Touch, adding to its already existing line of voice recording software for the iPhone, Mac and Windows PCs. 
For iPhone users, QuickVoice iP (for the iPhone) syncs its recordings with QuickVoice PC on the personal computer (Mac or Windows) at which point [...]

WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg demos the upcoming update to the popular open source blogging/podcasting content management system. WordPress 2.7 is expected to be available in November.
via CenterNetworks

Audio Recorder is a free program that lets you record with your Mac from any input device directly to AIFF, WAV, MP3, MP4 or AppleLossLess formats.
Download link

Google today announced updates to YouTube Insight’s analytics, adding a new feature, “Hot Spots”, that shows you the hottest scenes in your videos and also what’s not so hot. 
The Hot Spots tab in Insight plays your video alongside a graph that shows the ups-and-downs of viewership at different moments within the video. Google determine “hot” [...]