CellSpin Soft has announced it has added support for Apple’s iPhone to its mobile blogging software platform.
CellSpin is designed to let you capture audio, photos and text on the iPhone and publish it to your blog or favorite social media sites. Supported sites include

MySpace
Facebook
Twitter
Pownce,
Blogger
Picasa
Flickr
Live Journal
Live Spaces
TypePad
eBay

CellSpin’s free iPhone application supports:

Voice blogging
Photo blogging
Text blogging
Posting pre-existing media [...]

The Mindanao News and Information Cooperative Center, a cooperative composed of independent, professional journalists, has teamed with Jean Claire A. Dy, a Media Arts professor at Univ. Phillipines Mindanao, to create a Digital Storytelling Center Mindanao. While the project initially was created for the college students to store their stories, the partnership with the journalists [...]

Our friend, radio producer Chris Vallance, sent word that he had recently interviewed PodShow - er, Mevio - executive Adam Curry for his BBC Radio Five Live Pods and Blogs program.
Our regular readers will remember that Mevio co-founder and Chief Executive Ron Bloom raised eyebrows last month by explaining that the reason for the [...]

Wizzard Media announced today that Podiobooks.com, a free audiobook podcast network, is now using LibsynPRO 2.0 podcast hosting and will make their library of shows available on the Wizzard Media Network for advertising opportunities.
“Libsyn has always been a valued partner for Podiobooks.com and one that is always willing to work with us, as our needs [...]

In the last year or so, everybody and their mother seems to have taken time off from the social media fad of the day to blog that podcasting is dead:

Information Week says podcasting is dead.
John Dvorak says podcasting is dead.
The Bioscience Education Journal says podcasting is dead.
PodShow thinks podcasting is dead, so it changed its [...]

Okay, a confession here: I spent much of Earth Day today, a beautiful sunny day, outdoors. Away from my laptop computer. Away from wi-fi. It seemed a fitting way to celebrate the thirty-ninth annual Earth Day, riding my bike and enjoying cold beverages at a succession of locally-owned establishments.
One thought that kept coming back to [...]

The SFGate has a profile of podcasting novelist Scott Sigler that looks at how he’s used free podcasts to promoting his writing career:
Before Sigler revealed podcasting as a new frontier for book promotion, the San Francisco author was rebuffed hundreds of times by major publishers. Sigler’s science fiction-horror thrillers attracted little attention.
That changed in 2005, [...]

The schedule for the fourth annual New Media Expo has been announced by event organizer Tim Bourquin. Formerly known as the Podcast and New Media Expo, and/or the Portable Media Expo, this year’s updated and expanded event sports a new name, and has moved from California to Las Vegas.
The New Media Expo, which runs [...]

Pioneering podcast novelist Scott Sigler saw “a dream come true” yesterday, April Fool’s Day, with Random House’s publication of a hardcover version of his book, Infected.
Sigler, one of the (the very?) first writers to offer their fiction in podcast format, began back in 2005 with his science-fiction/horror book Earthcore. With a bevy of devoted fans [...]

A story in the Muncie, Indiana Star Press serves as a reminder that there’s more to podcasting than “monetization”:
When Ben Ranfeld, Liz Ranfeld and Paul VanDemark decided early last year to start a podcast centered solely on one topic — the movie The Big Lebowski — they figured they faced one major problem.
“We didn’t really [...]