If you still have any doubt about whether podcasting is becoming a mainstream phenomenon, Oprah and Apple have announced that her series of podcasts is available through iTunes.

The latest version of the Oxford English Dictionary – described as the the definitive record of the English language – has added podcasting: podcasting n. A very new word, for a recent phenomenon, and a great example of how technological change, especially that relating to the Internet and the media, can be a driving force not [...]

At the Digital Watch blog, Steven Lin has posted an interesting article looking at Why Podcasting Never Killed the Radio Star in China: Three years ago, an article from Time magazine changed my life. “Will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?”The idea of a automatically-downloaded multi-media feed changing the new media landscape blew my mind. In [...]

Podcasting startup PodShow has laid off one-third of its staff, according to a report Valleywag: PodShow, the San Francisco-based online-video network best known for launching the career of CNET’s Natali Del Conte, is laying off about 20 employees, or as much as 30 percent of its staff. “There are no secrets, only information you don’t [...]

Starting this semester, students at Phoenix College (AZ) will have the chance to learn how to write, produce, and star in their own video blog or podcast. A new course, Videoblogging and Podcasting: Self-Broadcasting in the Web 2.0 World, begins Jan. 22 at the college’s downtown campus, 640 N. First Ave., Phoenix. Cheryl Colan, an [...]

MarketingShift is reporting that podcasting’s 15 minutes of fame is almost up. “Podcasting probably will never become an ‘impact media’ like online video or satellite radio, and deservedly so,” says MarketingShift’s John Gartner. “The multitude of independent podcasters will scratch and claw for the occasional hour when people want to hear about a niche of [...]

According to New Delhi Television (NDTV), a large Indian news and entertainment media company, urban India is jumping on the podcast bandwagon. “The podcasting arena is very democratic. It’s open to anyone, anybody can upload podcasts to the web and people will come and listen to it. If they like it, they will leave you [...]

Canada’s CBC Radio One has announced that it will now be offering a number of its programs as podcasts and as free online downloads.Programming will include the ‚Äúbest of‚Äù editions from The Current, Dispatches, Definitely Not the Opera, Ideas, Outfront, and As It Happens, plus highlight packages of regionally-based radio programs. CBC recently conducted an [...]