Amazon.com today introduced Amazon Kindle 2, the new reading device that offers, in their words, Kindle’s “revolutionary wireless delivery of content” in a slimmer, sleeker package. The book reader retails for $359 and is scheduled to ship beginning February 24. Amazon is taking pre-orders here. Amazon enthuses that the new Kindle model has a longer [...]

New media isn’t just for the cutting edge hipsters anymore; the suits are officially moving in. Marketers are jumping into new media and moving their advertising budgets from traditional media to social networking sites, blogs, podcasts and mobile marketing.  According to a new survey by Epsilon,  nearly two-thirds (63%) of the marketing executives they surveyed [...]

comScore today released a study of blog traffic in the U.K. that found that 41 percent of the total U.K. Internet audience visited a blog in August. “Blogs have become part of the essential fabric of the Internet today,” said Herve Le Jouan, Managing Director, comScore Europe. “They’re increasingly displacing traditional media usage and carving [...]

Lifestyle podcast and blog network Personal Life Media today unveiled a new audio player widget for distributing multiple podcast RSS feeds. The customizable widget, in turn, can be added to a user’s social network profile, blog or personal webpage. The player is free and can be customized to match any web page or blog as [...]

As mainstream media promotes itself to new heights (depths?) over the upcoming summer Olympic Games in Beijing, and with the International Olympic Committee raising hackles with its severe restrictions on blogging, podcasting and new media, it seemed like a good time to look at citizen media efforts coming from China itself. This week’s edition of [...]

The Blog Council, an organization formed to “identify and promote best practices in corporate blogging”, officially launched today. The Council is intended to be a tool for companies to share tactics, offer advice based on past experience and develop standards. Founding members include: AccuQuote Cisco Systems The Coca-Cola Company Dell Gemstar-TV Guide General Motors Kaiser [...]

Liveblog of Mark Cuban‘s Closing Keynote at BlogWorld: My experience on “dancing w stars” is a lot like blogging — people I don’t know come up and feel free to tell me their opinions. I started my blog in 2004, after doing an interview for Dallas Morning News about Mavericks, half a dozen questions with [...]

Specifically for Lancashire (UK) dog owners, the 25-minute “Paws on the Moors” audio play follows the adventures of six dogs on the moors through their fictitious blog.¬† (PodcastingNews cannot resist a story that lets us say something catchy like “Dog Blog.”¬† Try typing that three times, really quickly: dog blog, dog blog, dog blog…). The [...]

Peter Davis, via Scoble, asks “Why listen to a podcast when you can get ten times the content when you read?” Davis questions the growing popularity of podcasts. “This is an inefficient means of receiving information. In the time I can listen to an average podcast, I could have caught up on my 50 favorite [...]

Mobasoft has introduced a free version of its MyChingo audio comment system that will record up to two minutes of audio. MyChingo provides an audio comment system to bloggers and podcasters without requiring them to download software or purchase expensive equipment.“We’ve seen how much added value the audio comment system has created for our members,” [...]