Here’s another preview of Microsoft’s Zune HD.
This one offers the briefest glimpse of 3-D gaming on the device, which means Microsoft’s intending to go mano a mano against Apple in the portable gaming space.
Think gaming will help improve the Zune’s lot?
The Zune HD will be out Tuesday, Sept 15th.
via zunited, engadget

Summer weather puts me in a mood to listen to upbeat music. It makes a fitting soundtrack for all my outdoor activities. With that in mind, I thought I’d share several electronica/trance/dance music podcasts that I’ll be listening to this weekend.
Dutch superstar DJ Tiesto (pictured, right) has a podcast of his weekly radio show, Tiesto’s [...]

Startup digital advertising and technology firm VoloMedia (formerly known as PodBridge) has  announced today a free metrics and analytics service that helps podcasters track the activity of the programs they publish to iTunes.
VoloMedia founder Murgesh Navar described the service in a post today on the Association for Downloadable Media blog:
“Bridge-to-Google Analytics is a plug-in to [...]

The latest episode of the “Get the Download” podcast features a discussion with attorney Colette Vogele, one of the authors of the Creative Commons Podcasting Legal Guide.
Interviewed by Volo Media’s Jeff Karnes, Vogele discusses intellectual property law, including copyright, trademark, and privacy, and how it relates to new media and podcasting. Colette also addresses digital [...]

The Wall St. Journal reports today that video podcaster and energetic force of nature Gary Vaynerchuk has signed a “seven-figure, 10-book deal” with publisher Harper Studio. The first of the series, “Crush It! Turn Your Passion into Profits in a Digital World,” will be published in September.
The publishing contract is noteworthy for a couple of [...]

The Committee to Protect Bloggers is reporting that blogger Omid Reza Mir Sayafi has died in prison in Iran. Omid was sentenced in December to three years in jail.  Omid was accused of “insulting Iranian religious leaders and spreading propaganda” against the Iranian state.
Human Rights Activists in Iran (translated from Arabic by Hamid Tehrani at [...]

The latest episode of the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM)’s “Get The Download” podcast series is worth taking time to listen. The program covers much of the nuts and bolts of finding advertisers or sponsorships to monetize your Internet video creations.
Interviewer Cathy Brooks of Other Than That (late of video creation site Seesmic) talks with [...]

It was a nice surprise last week to hear podcasting event pioneer Brian Russell being interviewed on American Public Media’s Marketplace program.
As you may remember, Russell organized one of the first “open space” podcasting conferences, PodcasterCon, back in January 2006 (about 8 months before the first of dozens of PodCamps debuted). He was also an [...]

Podcasting News publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Revision 3 CEO Jim Louderback about what traditional media can learn about online advertising from Diggnation and other Internet TV shows.

Podcasting network Wizzard Media announced today that it fielded an unprecedented 1.2 billion podcast download requests, averaging of 3.04 million requests for podcast episodes per day, in 2008. Wizzard is comprised of podcast-hosting services Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast.
The total monthly unique audience size grew by over 100% across the Wizzard Network, from 7 million [...]