Voting is now open for the 2009 Podcast Awards. It’s the fifth year for the annual event, which has the goal to “recognize the best podcasters in the world by allowing the people (Listeners and Podcasters) to nominate, and then vote for their favorite podcast.” Voting for the slate of podcast nominees is open through [...]

Podcasts just got another dose of mainstream validation. The NYTimes reports that podcasts are now eligible for National Magazine Awards: Podcasters, rejoice, for you are now eligible for a National Magazine Award. The creators of the prestigious awards plan to announce on Wednesday that they are adding 12 new categories covering online media. The categories [...]

Popular GLBT website and podcast Feast of Fools: Gay Fun Show has changed its name, and will now be known as Feast of Fun: Gay Talk Show, or, as creator and host Fausto Fernos says,”just “Feast of Fun” or just plain FOF.” Fernos, who hosts the weekly show with his partner Marc Felion, explains the [...]

The Podcast Awards has announced its slate of nominees for the 2008 Podcast Awards.  This is the fourth year of the event, which has the goal of recognizing the best podcasters, nominated and chosen by podcast fans. Voting will open on October 23rd with voting closing November 6th, at 2359.

Founder of the Podcast Awards Todd Cochrane plans to announce the 220 shows that have made the final voting slate for the 2008 event on Sunday, October 19th at 4PM Pacific Time @ PodcastAwards.com. This is the fourth annual Podcasting Awards, which has the goal of recognizing the best podcasters in the world by allowing [...]

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 winners of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards have been announced: Best Video Podcast РAsk a Ninja Best Mobile Phone Formatted Podcast РPraystation Portable Business РManager Tools Comedy РNobody Likes Onions Cultural / Arts РThis American Life Education РGrammar Girl Entertainment РThe Lost Podcast Food and Drink Р[...]

Organizers have announced podcast nominees for the 11th Annual Webby Awards. Nominees include: Guardian Unlimited NPR Scientific American Spout The Onion A full list of all nominees in more than 100 categories can be found at the Webby Awards site. Winners will be announced on May 1st. The Webby Awards is presented by the International [...]

A group of young people from West Lothian (in Scotland) have won a national podcasting competition. The Free Ears team’s “Just Listen” podcast is aimed at raising awareness of mental health issues among young people. The group was selected by judges from Young Scot, BT and Talk 107, and the youngsters will visit the radio [...]

10 Zen Monkeys has published their take on the 10 Worst Vlogs of 2006. While we don’t agree with all their choices, it would be hard to beat their #1 pick – the accurately named Dogs Barking in Cars vlog. “Behold the future of multimedia,” writes 10 Zen Monkey’s Lou Cabron. “It‚Äôs a terrible idea [...]