The first PodCamp on the West coast will be held in San Francisco on November 18-19, 2006 at the historic Swedish American Hall. PodCampWest is free to attend for the community and is inspired by PodCamp Boston. Event organizer Vic Podcaster reports that PodCampWest aims to “bring together the movers and shakers of New Media, […]

Ricky Spero at The Mac Observer’s Weekly Roundup podcast tells Podcasting News that they have begun a regular feature where they try out different podcast hardware. Starting with popular podcasting microphones, they’ll eventually work their way through a whole host of recording equipment. How will it work? “Each week, we’re looking at a different podcasting […]

Black Box Theatre Company, a non-traditional theatrical troupe based in San Francisco, has announced plans for a World Premiere podcast of The Creature, a new adaptation of Mary Shelley‚Äôs Frankenstein. The Creature will be taped before a live studio audience at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre (Fort Mason Center, Building D, Laguna at Marina Blvd ) […]

The Public Broadcasting Service, PBS, has joined the ranks of YouTubers, using the site to highlight and promote its programming. YouTube is “a great way to get in front of a broad variety of audiences,” said Kevin Dando, PBS Director of Education and Online Communication. “It’s where the market is headed.” The PBS clips, 21 […]

A large survey of web professionals has found that many are planning to use podcasting, blogs and wikis in the next 12 months to help build communities. Highlights: 38 percent of developers intend to use blogs in their development projects 25 percent aim to use podcasting 20 percent mean to use wikis Syndication will also […]

Kirk Bundy, a Capistrano Unified School District teacher for 11 years, asked students to apply a new idea ‚Äî podcasting ‚Äî to a classroom tradition: the school project. Bundy recently received a 2006 Unsung Heroes award from finance company ING. The company recognizes kindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers nationwide for innovative teaching methods. Bundy, in his […]

All right. We’re bracing ourselves for your catty comments, but we just can’t help ourselves. We’ve been sitting on our hands all day, knowing that we’ll be mocked mercilessly for mentioning this momentous event…. but it *is*, after all, five years since Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod. And even though it pains us […]

Denver Pediatric specialist Dr. Steven Rothenberg is taking his surgical techniques and sharing them with other doctors around the world, via medical video podcasts. The surgeon says this makes “the surgical world a lot smaller and more capable of saving babies worldwide.” For example, Chloe Faith Smith was born prematurely, and suffers from a severe […]

PodcastCon UK, a podcasting convention which takes place in central London on Saturday, 18th November 2006, has announced a full lineup of podcast personalities and sponsors. This will be the second year of the conference, a not-for-profit event organized by a team of UK podcasters with professional expertise in conference organization, law, media, and public […]

Marquette University is offering a video tour of its campus formatted for iPods and other portable media players. Anyone can subscribe to the Marquette University Campus Tour Podcast, or view the individual videos on the school’s Web site. If they are on campus and a tour guide is not available, they can also be assigned […]