Common Craft put together this fun and simple intro to podcasting. The video is licensed with a Creative Commons license, so you can copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes.

Molly Wood has a great take on the state of the Zune over at Crave, offering 5 reasons she’s leaving the Zune behind and a scary tale about how her Zune erased thousands of her songs: About two weeks ago, I was going on a trip. My Zune’s battery had run out, so I plugged […]

According to the most recent Tech Poll from radio research firm Jacobs Media, the audience for podcasts is up 87% year to year among rock radio listeners. Here are some of the highlights of their research: New technology continues to rapidly move into radio listeners’ lives. This year, the “big gainers” in terms of occupying […]

Techspansion has introduced AudialHub — an inexpensive Mac app designed to convert dozens of different audio formats (and the audio tracks from video files) to AAC, MP3, WMA, WAV and Apple Lossless formats, with the standard metadata tags in most formats converted and passed on to the finished file. Nearly every aspect of the decoding […]

Last week, the venerable New York Times blew the cover off the shocking world of 24/7 blogging, where bloggers blog until they drop…….if not sooner. Now, BarelyPolitical has gone undercover to reveal the tragedy of indentured blogitude, a problem that until now has gone completely unnoticed. And if it’s happening in the world of blogs, […]

The ADM, an industry group focusing on commercial downloadable media, is looking for feedback on its proposed Advertising Unit Standards (pdf) and Download Measurement Guidelines (pdf), which were released this week at ad:tech San Francisco. The purpose of the Advertisement Unit Standards is to provide baseline recommendations for advertisement units in order to better facilitate […]

Odeo, an early podcasting startup that has long struggled with its direction, is back, in beta and looking for feedback. While the original site focused on podcast creation, the focus of Odeo’s latest incarnation focuses on viewing and listening to Internet media. Give it a look and let me know what you think of the […]

EQAL, the faux reality show startup of LonelyGirl15 creators Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, has raised $5 million in capital to help it produce new shows and international versions of its show: Per Becket & Goodfried: We’ve spent the last year and a half working hard at producing lonelygirl15, launching KateModern, and figuring out a […]

The audience for podcasts is way up, according to the latest research by Arbitron/Edison Media Research. Their study, The Podcast Consumer Revealed, found that: The audience for audio podcasts grew 38% in the last year; The audience for video podcasts grew 45% in the last year; About 30% of regular Internet users have downloaded a […]

According to report at StorageProPortal, a team of Scottish Nanotechnology scientists claim that they can cram up to 500 Terabyte worth of data onto one square inch – putting 100 millions songs on your iPod. Unfortunately, the Glaswegian team’s research is “in the conceptual stages” – which means that these 500 Terabyte iPods probably won’t […]