Professional podcast training event company and publisher The Podcast Academy is “opening the vault” for a week, offering for sale a set of audio recordings of all the sessions, panels, and keynote addresses from the 2006, 2007, and 2008 New Media Expo.
“I decided to offer a historical look at podcasting,” said Podcast Academy editor-in-chief Michael [...]

If you like ninjas and you like pirates, tomorrow may be just about the best day ever.
Sept 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day - and this year, the Ninja from AskANinja plans to “attack swashbucklers and scurvy dogs.”
The Ninja will be chatting live about pirates at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ask-a-ninja-live or http://fans.askaninja.com 3pm PDT/6pm EDT on [...]

Ask A Ninja’s Kent Nichols is working on casting his upcoming movie, a remake of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and he’s looking for victims!
If you’re interested in getting killed off on film by a bunch of tomatoes, visit the Real Red Manace YouTube site and submit a video of yourself being killed by a [...]

The Ninja drops some mad wisdom about the future of Internet media & throws some new media facts at you along the way.
And some of them are even true!

Today through Thursday, I’m in San Francisco to attend ad:tech, one of a series of conventions focused on advertising and digital marketing.
I will be covering the event for Podcasting News, trying to get a sense of what’s happening in downloadable media from the sponsor and advertiser’s point of view.
I’m also here to make a presentation [...]

If you ever doubted that there was a future in podcasting, then doubt no more.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Douglas Sarine (L) and Kent Nichols (R), the creators of the hit video podcast Ask a Ninja, are making the jump to the big screen. The two are writing an adaptation of the 1978 cult monster [...]

Matt Mullenweg, the guy behind Wordpress, announced today that he’s hired someone to develop social networking features for Wordpress:
Some of you may remember when I wrote about Chickspeak, a WordPress MU-based social network. Andy Peatling, the fellow behind it, later decided to recreate the work he had done as an Open Source effort he called [...]

Kent Nichols, co-creator of the popular video podcast Ask A Ninja, has started a new blog, and it already looks like it could become essential reading for indie new media content creators.
His first post takes a look at YouTube and why video podcasters and vloggers shouldn’t depend on it:
“YouTube doesn‚Äôt care about any one creator, [...]

Ninjas everywhere are celebrating the International Day of the Ninja, an annual Dec 5th event popularized by the Ninja of Ask a Ninja.
If you haven’t noticed ninjas celebrating the day yet, well, it’s because they are ninjas. And if you have been lucky to see ninjas celebrating, they’re probably nonjas.
If you’re a non-ninja and you’d [...]

The Association For Downloadable Media (ADM), a newly-formed organization dedicated to “providing standards for advertising and audience measurement for episodic and downloadable media,” announced today the election results for the 20 positions on its board.
Podcasting News Publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talked with some of the newly-elected board members and committee heads, asking about what inspired [...]