As mainstream media promotes itself to new heights (depths?) over the upcoming summer Olympic Games in Beijing, and with the International Olympic Committee raising hackles with its severe restrictions on blogging, podcasting and new media, it seemed like a good time to look at citizen media efforts coming from China itself. This week’s edition of [...]
Apple has updated the iTunes store with a directory of their top podcasts of 2007.
Lots of the usual suspects, including Sesame Street, NPR’s Fresh Air, Ask a Ninja, Grammar Gril Diggnation, Boing Boing TV & Tiki Bar TV. It’s a great starting point, though, for people new to podcasting.
Another demonstration of the fact that Apple [...]
Russell Holliman, Founder and CEO of Podcast Ready, tells us his company has just signed a distribution deal with consumer electronics manufacturer Coby that he expects will ship 5-10 million mp3-player/ podcatching devices over the next 12 months, starting with the fourth quarter of this year.
By Holliman’s reckoning, “that brings the total projected to 25-35 [...]
The results of the Summer ‘07 Podcast Peer Awards have been announced.
Clinton Alvord’s comedy4Cast won two awards. His four minute show was recognized as both the Best Comedy Podcast and Best Short Podcast. Mignon Fogarty’s Grammar Girl was chosen as the voters Favorite Audio Podcast. The Best Music Podcast award went to Punky! Radio and [...]
Nominations for the 2007 Podcast Awards are in progress. According to organizer Todd Cochrane, over 100,000 visitors have made nominations via the site for the event, now in its third year.
Nominations are being accepted in 22 categories. Voting is expected to be opened in mid to late July. The 2007 awards ceremony will be [...]
Thousands of U.S. commercial webcasters plan to go silent Tuesday, June 26, to draw attention to an impending royalty rate increase that could threaten the viability of stations that broadcast mainstream music.
Earlier in the year, the United States Copyright Royalty Board announced new royalty rates for webcasting traditionally licensed music, to be effective from [...]
Amazon.com today officially launched the Amazon Podcasts network, an original podcast offering that features four channels of free content: Amazon BookClips, Music You Should Hear, Significant Seven and Amazon Wire.
The company expects to offer several additional channels in the coming months to meet its customers’ increasing demand for rich content related to the products they shop. [...]
An article in today’s New York Times looks at how some authors are using podcasts and audiobooks as stepping stones in getting publishing deals.
When you are a budding author and you appear on television, it is sure to enhance book sales.
But what do you do if your book is not even written, never mind in [...]
Veteran broadcaster, musician and jazz afficionado Jason Crane has announced the launch of The Jazz Session, a weekly interview program with jazz personalities. The first episode features an interview with saxophonist Grant Stewart.
Crane promises upcoming interviews with Bob Sneider, The Respect Sextet, and Pat LaBarbera.
Crane also writes about jazz at All About Jazz and recently [...]
Actor’s union Equity purports to have achieved a world first, after agreeing a rights deal with the producer of an updated audio podcast of 70s cult sci-fi show Blake’s 7.
Equity said its ground-breaking agreement with B7 Productions would guarantee performers a share of net revenues generated from podcast downloads as well as from audio streaming [...]