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 [...]

Podcast pioneer and former MTV VJ Adam Curry shared this image of his podcasting setup on Flickr.
This is his rig for recording Daily Source Code. It shows how you can get a professional podcast from a relatively modest setup. (It helps to have Curry’s 20+ years of media experience, obviously!)
I spy what looks to be [...]

Edirol has announced the availability of the R-44, a professional mobile recording workstation.
The Edirol R-44 is a 2 lb. portable recorder that offers up to 24-bit and 192kHz recording and uses SDHC cards to store the audio recorded.
Features:

4 channels
XLR (with phantom power) & balanced/unbalanced TRS combo inputs
digital RCA and headphones outputs
20Hz to 40kHz frequency response
built-in [...]

Nick from the Gnatline podcast sent us a link to some photos of a custom podcasting table that he built.

The setup has spots at the table for multiple hosts, a central mixing area, a swivel-mount computer monitor and even a place below the table for rack-mounted audio gear.
While Nick has obviously put a lot of [...]

MXL Microphones has introduced a new USB mic, the MXL 990 USB Stereo Condenser Microphone.
The MXL 990 features two gold diaphragm capsules in an X/Y stereo configuration and promises rich sound with excellent spatial imaging. The MXL 990 USB is a Universal Serial Bus instrument that connects directly to a computer without the need for [...]