UK podcast directory Podcast Nation has announced that it will be expanding its community by offering a new media enthusiasts’ social network, run on the Ning API, at http://podcastnation.ning.com.
Podcast Nation Editor-in-Chief Mark Crook said, “Podcast Nation is a great way for both finding and promoting podcasts, and by developing our community at Ning, which has [...]

Added to the podcast directory page: The Aloha Podcast Network, a site that offers a variety of Hawaiian podcasts.
Description:
Interested in life in Hawaii? Want to find out more about visiting the beautiful “Islands of Aloha”? Now you can sample a wide variety of Hawaii and Hawaiian themed podcast and vodcast via the Aloha Podcast Network [...]

At the Future of Web Apps conference, held September 13-14 in San Francisco, Odeo’s CEO Evan Williams revealed how his startup podcasting company screwed up.
Last year Williams blogged his thoughts about tech startup companies, publishing his Ten Rules for Web Startups. But according to Williams, he didn’t follow his own rules, letting his company become [...]

A new podcast directory, Music Only Podcasts, is - you guessed it - a directory that features only music podcasts.
It’s currently a fairly small directory, but it is focused and also makes it easy to preview the shows by providing a featured show link for each podcast.

PodShow, a podcasting network founded by Adam Curry which has proven to be no stranger to controversy, is being accused of hijacking Rocketboom’s copyrighted video content.
Here’s what has Rocketboom concerned:

Podshow appears to be displaying Rocketboom’s content in violation of Rocketboom’s license agreement:
“Podshow is self-agrandizing by hotlinking Rocketboom into their player,” according to Rocketboom, “showcasing our [...]

Podcast pioneer Dave Winer, who wrote the RSS 2.0 standard on which podcast distribution is built, has started building what he describes as a “community podcasting directory.”
Winer intends to recreate iPodder.org (now IndiePodder.org), one of the earliest podcast directories. iPodder’s architecture was unique, because it was a distributed directory built on Outline Processor Markup Language [...]