Edison Research has made available this year’s edition of The Current State of Podcasting, a study of American podcast consumers’ attitudes and behaviors. The 2010 report is Edison’s fifth annual study and was unveiled earlier this fall at Blogworld in Las Vegas, and combined information from the Edison Research/Arbitron Internet & Multimedia series, along with [...]

Last weekend, we cautioned you against speaking ill of others while using popular microblogging Twitter. Our cautionary tale featured rocker, actress, and famous-for-her-outbursts personality Courtney Love. She is being sued by Austin fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir (aka Boudoir Queen), for calling her “nasty lying hosebag thief” and a drug addict and a prostitute. Today’s sobering [...]

The news was not unexpected, yet somehow was still surprising when it came today. The two big (for-profit) new media conferences, Blog World Expo and the New Media Expo are combining into a new annual event, The Blog World & New Media Expo. The hybrid conference inaugural run will be at the Las Vegas Convention [...]

We, along with a lot of people in the podcasting community, were excited to hear recently that Microsoft had hired Rob Greenlee to be its Podcast Programming & Marketing Lead for the Microsoft Zune. Rob was doing Internet radio long before podcasting was created. Rob, along with his wife Dana Greenlee, hosted WebTalk Radio, an [...]

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 [...]

Liveblogging the Cult of Blogging session at BlogWorld expo. We were expecting this panel to be one of the highlights of BlogWorld. Panelists were to include Om Malik of GigaOM; Mike Arrington of TechCrunch; and ubiquitous video podcaster Leo Laporte. The session got of to an inauspicious start, though. Malik apparently dropped out because of [...]

Amid an ever-increasing number of podcast event offerings, the very first Blog World and New Media Expo officially kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas, Nevada. Business executives were gathering today for a special pre-conference new media workshop, followed by a special sneak preview of the upcoming movie, “The Kite Runner.” Podcasting News‘ publisher Elisabeth McLaury [...]

Organizers have announced the BlogWorld & New Media Expo, a new blogging tradeshow, to be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center Thursday – Friday, Nov. 8 – 9, 2007. The Expo will feature more than 60 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes. The Expo promises sessions on blogging basics, podcasting, video blogging, monetization strategies, increasing [...]