PodCamp Midwest is coming up next weekend, February 16, 2008, in the Kansas City metro suburb of Overland Park, Kansas. The PodCamp gatherings, organized by podcasting volunteers around the world, are new media community unconferences. Attendees/ participants set the agenda and self-organize sessions on topics of their choosing. Since the first PodCamp Boston in September [...]

Doug Kaye, founder of volunteer network PodCorps, has clued us in on another one-time opportunity for podcasters. The New York Times needs local “radio producers” to gather audio interviews on Super Tuesday, February 5th, 2008, in the following states: Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California (Northern & Southern) Colorado Connecticut Delaware Georgia Idaho Illinois Kansas Massachusets [...]

Podcasting News is headquartered in Iowa’s capital city, Des Moines, so we’ve had a front-row seat for the preparations to the first-in-the-nation Presidential nominating caucus. I’ll be busy this evening working at our neighborhood caucus, but may have time to post some Seesmic videos later. Look for videos from podcastmama. Here are some resources you [...]

Bloggers, podcasters, and assorted online enthusiasts are gathering at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University in Greensboro, (NC), Oct. 19 and Oct. 20 for ConvergeSouth, an annual conference focused on enhancing creativity online for everyone. Exploring “the online revolution in personal expression”, ConvergeSouth focuses on digital publishing, videocasting and podcasting. Friday’s topic is “The [...]

From Dean Whitbread, Chairman of the UK Podcasters Association, comes this news of negotiations for the WIPO Broadcast Treaty: “[I]n Geneva this week, so concerted has been the resistance to the much disliked WIPO Broadcast Treaty in its current form, with even the US delegation finding serious fault with it, that at several points today [...]

Six new podcast series about six major Scottish cities — from the young adult perspective – are set to debut throughout this week. The “MPsix” project was created by about three dozen youngsters from six Scottish cities, working together in scripting, performing and editing short audio guides to their home cities. Adults who usually work [...]

Human rights group Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) today announced its list of 13 worst “enemies of the Internet.” The list consists of countries that RSF believes are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet. For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while former “enemies” Nepal, Libya and [...]

New Assignment’s David Cohn has suggested 9 ways you can blog, vlog or podcast about tomorrow’s elections: At Betsy Devine‚Äôs blog you can learn more about ‚Äúsnapping the leaflets,‚Äù a project to document what propaganda voters are subject to days before the election. Video The Vote is an organized effort, using camera phones and video, [...]