Chris from Jupiter Broadcasting offers his take on the best podcasting microphones, including the Rode Mic, the Blue Snowball, the MXL 990 & the Heil PR-40 along the way.
Unfortunately, there’s really no “best podcasting microphone”. The best podcasting mic will depend on your budget, your requirements and your preferences.
If you can, try out the mics [...]

Sonic Labs’ Nick Batt takes a look at the Samson Go Mic USB Microphone – an inexpensive, but good quality USB-powered microphone that could be a good option for podcasters.
Features of the Samson Go Mic:

Plug & play MAC and PC compatibility
USB interface for high-resolution, digital audio streaming
Custom design clips to a laptop [...]

Shure SM58 & SM57 mics have a reputation for being reliable to the point of being indestructible. 
They’re popular with musicians, because they’re cheap and you can store them in the back of a van without worrying about breaking them. The SM58 is popular with podcasters, too, because it’s fairly cheap and delivers great sound for the price. 
Mats Stålbröst, editor [...]

Audix Microphones has introduced a new mic, the Audix USB12, that is designed to gives you “studio quality sound” at your desktop
The UDSB12 is a low-profile desktop gooseneck microphone, designed for recording voice and acoustic instruments directly into the computer via the USB port.
Features:

12 mm modular threaded capsule for accuracy.
The USB12 is a plug and [...]

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 [...]