Registration is now open for PodCamp Pittsburgh 4, scheduled for October 10th and 11th at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
PodCamp Pittsburgh started out as a podcasting unconference, but has grown to cover a variety of new media/social media topics.
“We have seen a surge of interest in social media this year — not just blogs and [...]
Podcasting network Wizzard Media today announced that it served over 13,700,000 podcast ad impressions through its Alchemy advertising technology in the quarter ending June 30, 2009. This represents an increase of 251% year-to-year and a 46% increase from the 9.4 million ad impressions served in the first quarter of 2009.
Wizzard Ad Impression History
2008 – Q2 [...]
Earlier in the week, we reported that free podcast hosting site WildVoice.com was abruptly shutting down.
blubrry’s Todd Cochrane has announced a special for former WildVoice users:
The team at Blubrry is sad to see another Podcast Hosting and Podcast Media site going off-line. However, the news of WildVoice shutting down July 1 means podcasters hosted at [...]
In 2008, podcasting, vlogging and new media in general were effectively banned from the Olympics.
For future events, the Olympics has to embrace new media, according to Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger, because the rules governing who can report from the Olympic Games are outdated in the age of Twitter.
In a speech to the International Olympics Committee [...]
An article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal about New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly closed with a mention of a favorite cardio workout podcast - the long-running (pun intended) Podrunner.
The Podrunner series features free exercise music mixes for runners, joggers, power walkers, cyclists, elliptical trainers, aerobics, or “anyone who can use nonstop, fixed-tempo music [...]
Podcast production company StoryQuest is seeking multilingual freelance audio producers for “flexible part-time work.”
StoryQuest is a Chicago-based company that produces corporate podcasts with a twist - the podcasts feature the clients’ stories - those of the people and the customers. Company founder, Tim Keelan, describes the podcasts as being “driven by a deep commitment to [...]
ReadWriteWeb blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick, right, and proto-podcaster Dave Winer kicked off a new podcast today, the Bad Hair Day Podcast.
The podcast is old-school, basically an unedited conversation between the two, tech snafus and all.
In the first episode, Kirkpatrick and Winer touch on the new iPhone OS, Twitter and even Kirkpatrick’s bizarre unicorn fetish. Fetish may [...]
Media analyst Clay Shirky has some interesting thoughts on the steady stream of photos, Twitter posts and videos coming out of post-election Iran:
I’m always a little reticent to draw lessons from things still unfolding, but it seems pretty clear that … this is it. The big one. This is the first revolution that has been [...]
“Social radio network” BlogTalk Radio today announced the launch of two new “premium service packages.” The podcast production and distribution platform is offering enhanced services to talk show hosts (that is, podcasters), whose production needs have outgrown the podcast production and distribution platform’s more basic offerings.
The premium and premium plus service packages have monthly costs [...]
And Now For Something Completely Different: some upbeat news from metro Detroit.
Putting aside the recent grim news about the automobile industry and its hub, Detroit, Michigan, a story in The Detroit News caught our eye this week. Lacking a youth activity center, the city of Southfield (a suburb of the Motor City) has opened a [...]
