In the United States, college football is winding down (or up, depending on how your favorite team is doing) for championship bowl games. Professional (US) football is likewise midway through its competition schedule, which culminates in the TV commercial extravaganza Super Bowl in early February. This seemed like a good time to mention a few […]

The Derbyshire (UK) Chamber of Commerce has launched a podcast series that summarises the latest changes to business legislation. The group purports to be the first UK Chamber to offer audio downloads on legislation updates. The new podcasts offer details of legislation changes that are applicable to all employers. They are divided into four topic […]

Amazon.com‚Äôs editors picked Tricks of the Podcasting Masters as one of the Top 10 Reference Books of 2006. This was the only book about podcasting to be included in any of the editors’ picks categories. Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, published by Que Publishing in May 2006, was co-authored by veteran podcasters Mur Lafferty (Geek […]

As previously mentioned, the first PodCamp West (un)conference will be held this weekend in San Francisco: November 18-19, 2006, at the historic Swedish American Hall. The PodCamp Pre-Party will be held at The Mint (1942 Market Street, ph. 415.626.4726) in San Franciso on the eve of Podcamp West (Friday, Nov. 17) starting at 6:30 pm. […]

We were pretty skeptical last year, when podcast pioneer Adam Curry predicted a podcast porn explosion, and even more so when the mainstream media went iPod porn crazy. Now a statistical analysis of the content on the Web has found that there is actually a lot less adult content on the Web than some may […]

Claire Atkinson at Advertising Age Media Works writes in the “Watercooler” column that, since its July 2005 acquisition of MySpace, “the number of profiles on the social-networking site has zoomed to 130 million from 29 million in July 2005. Profile pages are growing globally at the pace of 8 million a month and are expected […]

PodCampWest.org is being organized by Vic Podcaster, Founder & CEO of Silicon Valley Podcasting Network, a new media startup. The event will take place at 2174 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, from 12 noon-6 pm on Saturday, November 18th, and Sunday, November 19th. PodCamp West attendees are encouraged to attend an ‘after party’ on Saturday, […]

Financial service provider Charles Schwab & Co. today announced that two podcast series, and several RSS news feeds of print articles are now publicly available at www.schwab.com/rss, providing market and investing news, information and commentary. The new podcasts include daily program “Schwab Market Update Audio,” a summary of each trading day’s key results and statistics, […]

Human rights group Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres, or RSF) today announced its list of 13 worst “enemies of the Internet.” The list consists of countries that RSF believes are suppressing freedom of expression on the internet. For the first time, Egypt has been added to the list while former “enemies” Nepal, Libya and […]

Intel Corporation announced at the Web 2.0 Conference today that it is collaborating with several software companies on the launch of SuiteTwo, a set of business software applications. The integrated suite is being billed as “a family of interconnected services combined to improve productivity and enable high-engagement marketing,” comprised of applications from software companies including […]