Podcast.com announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas its list of the “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” for 2007, in conjunction with media aggregation/distribution company Treedia.com, which created the feed management platform used at Podcast.com. Podcast.com, a podcast directory and feed management site, maintains a list of 43,000 podcast feeds. To [...]

The Guardian reports that the BBC is introducing music podcasts, featuring highlights from their radio programming and short music clips in “top 40″ style format. Starting Saturday, November 17, the offerings will include Folk & Acoustic with Mike Harding from Radio 2, Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone from 6 Music and the Asian Network Chart. 1Xtra [...]

The BBC’s Chris Vallance sent word about a programming experiment that they’ve introduced, iPM on BBC Radio 4. The show combines elements of podcasting and radio, and is based around a blog which lets users submit story ideas, comment on stories and offer input on stories in progress. It will start Saturday November 10th at [...]

For a little escapist fun, we (that’s the royal we) have been doing a little reading on England in the 16th century. It’s about as far away from reading about podcasting and new media as we can possibly get, and occasionally that is a good brief distraction for us. With the birth of the Church [...]

There’s a lot of news in the area of Internet video today. Here are the highlights: The UK government has responded to the controversy over the BBC’s recently introduced iPlayer digital video application, which only runs on Windows XP. We called it a closed on-demand video system when it was introduced. The government is now [...]

UK ISPs, including Tiscali, BT and Carphone Warehouse, are warning that they may “pull the plug” on the BBC’s new iPlayer, a new Windows Internet video player, because of its potential to eat up Internet bandwidth. They’re threatening to block the player or throttle bandwidth for users unless the BBC gives the ISPs a cut [...]

The BBC has launched a closed on-demand Internet video system, iPlayer,¬†that will let users download and view shows broadcast in the last week. The BBC is giving the new offering an unusual amount of hype. BBC director general Mark Thompson calls¬†the launch of iPlayer “as big a milestone as the arrival of colour TV.” iPlayer [...]

Actor’s union Equity purports to have achieved a world first, after agreeing a rights deal with the producer of an updated audio podcast of 70s cult sci-fi show Blake’s 7. Equity said its ground-breaking agreement with B7 Productions would guarantee performers a share of net revenues generated from podcast downloads as well as from audio [...]

BBC NEWS has an interesting article about broadcasters joining the world’s airwaves using Campcaster, open-source software which lets people run a radio station from a single computer for free. Campcaster takes a regular PC and turns it into a tool for managing every aspect of a radio station broadcast. The software is the idea of [...]

The venerable BBC has announced plans to offer hundreds of episodes of its programs on a file-sharing network for the first time, Azureus’ Zudeo. Until now, most BBC programmes found on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks have been illegal copies. Azureus is best known for developing a BitTorrent client, or program, that allows large media files to [...]