Podcasters from throughout North America gathered in Kingston, Ontario, last weekend for the third annual Podcasters Across Borders conference.
Here is a quick rundown of some of the coverage of the event by participants and presenters at PAB08:
Financial Aid Podcast and social media superhero Chris Penn talks a little bit about the “battle” (heated discussion) between [...]

A couple of days ago, we highlighted some great pro-podcasting propaganda (right) that Magnatune, a net music label that specializes in Creative-Commons Music, is using.
The Podcasting is Selling Music logo parodies a 1980’s campaign by the British Phonograph Industry, Home Taping is Killing Music.
UK Podcasters Association (UKPA) founder Dean Whitbread contacted us and let us [...]

Podcasting‚Äôs hillbilly savant Wichita Rutherford, host of the 5 Minutes With Wichita podcast, has announced that he’s been signed to create his own TV show.
Rutherford signed a deal last week with Blue Highways TV. According to Rutherford, he’s the first podcaster to get his own television show.
“I’m so happy I can’t hardly stand it!” says [...]

Blogger Greg Verdinos writes about the irony of the Nielsen BuzzMetrics clients-only CGM Summit 2006, held last week:
“The agenda is cram packed with sessions covering all aspects of Consumer Generated Media CGM including an overview of where we are today, why people do this stuff, where CGM is going in the future, and how exactly [...]

Kirk Bundy, a Capistrano Unified School District teacher for 11 years, asked students to apply a new idea — podcasting — to a classroom tradition: the school project.
Bundy recently received a 2006 Unsung Heroes award from finance company ING.
The company recognizes kindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers nationwide for innovative teaching methods.
Bundy, in his first year as [...]

All right. We’re bracing ourselves for your catty comments, but we just can’t help ourselves. We’ve been sitting on our hands all day, knowing that we’ll be mocked mercilessly for mentioning this momentous event…. but it *is*, after all, five years since Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod.
And even though it pains us that [...]

PodcastCon UK, a podcasting convention which takes place in central London on Saturday, 18th November 2006, has announced a full lineup of podcast personalities and sponsors. This will be the second year of the conference, a not-for-profit event organized by a team of UK podcasters with professional expertise in conference organization, law, media, and public [...]

Closing out the official activities on the first day of the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California, was the second annual Podcast Awards Ceremony.
Previously announced winners of the PME Awards for Podcast of the Year were the folks who produce Grape Radio. In keeping with the gravitas of the occasion, the winners all [...]

Podshow, the podcasting network co-founded by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, shown right with cross-dressing lesbian podcaster Madge Weinstein, is holding a podcasting Un-Expo in Ontario, California, at the same time as the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo.
The company’s Talent and Marketing team is spending two days holding an Undition, for podcasters interested in possible [...]

At the second annual Podcast and Portable Media Expo, being held at the Ontario Convention Center (above) Sept 29-30, Ron Moore, head writer and show runner for Battlestar Galactica, and creator of Battlestar Galactica podcast, gave the second keynote speech.
Here are some highlights from his discussion:
Galactica’s podcast pilot project was initially referred to as a [...]