More bad news for troubled podcasting startup PodTech: According to reports via TechCrunch and Twitter, popular tech analyst Robert Scoble is leaving the company and taking ScobleShow, the closest thing PodTech has had to a hit show, with him: Famous blogger Robert Scoble will be leaving his current job at PodTech in mid January, he […]

We spend a lot of time looking at the big trends shaping Internet media at Podcasting News, and one of the most important ones is that people’s attention is moving to the Web faster than traditional media companies. As a result of this shift, mainstream broadcasters are losing their audience to things like YouTube and […]

Anne Zelenka at GigaOm has an interesting take on the idea of using WordPress as a social networking platform, looking at DiSo, Chris Messina’s project to build a social networking platform based on WordPress: “In contrast to social networking, blogging offers a person-centric way for individuals to come online. A social network like Facebook gives […]

Time has published their take on the Top 10 Gadgets of the Year, and the iPhone came out on top: “The iPhone changed the way we think about how mobile media devices should look, feel and perform. The design is exceptional inside and out: It’s got a slick glass-and-stainless steel case and an elegant touch […]

There’s been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere today about the importance of Twitter. David Armano, VP of Experience Design with Critical Mass, wonders “Why is Twitter exploding?”, and suggests that it’s rapidly growing because it has created a “conversation ecosystem”. Forrester Analyst Jeremiah Owyang says that “conversations have shifted to Twitter,” and calls […]

In Atlantic v. Howell, an anti-piracy lawsuit in Arizona, the RIAA is making the case that, while it’s legal to rip CDs for personal use, it’s illegal if you store ripped tracks in a folder that is shared: Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs‚Äô recording into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder, […]

Cheap digital cameras are making it possible to do new things with video, and to experiment with cameras in ways that weren’t previously possible. On the slopes near Park City, Utah, Anthony Godoy, of Twenty20, and Graham Watanabe, of the U.S. Snowboard Team, invented and tested the “Granthony Cam.” The Granthony Cam mechanism enabled the […]

As social media gets more and more popular, companies are struggling to understand what’s important, who they should pay attention to and what they should measure, according to a report by the Institute for Public Relations and Wieck Media. Here are the highlights: Fifty-seven percent of respondents said that social media tools are becoming more […]

Paul Colligan, a long-time podcaster and a business podcasting guru, has posted some interesting thoughts on easy ways to make your podcast more valuable, all of which are simple and “bite-sized”: Spend less than ten bucks on a domain name for your new production company. Advertisers don‚Äôt want to deal with directors, they want to […]

50 Cent says he isn’t snorting coke, but some in the industry may think that he’s talking like he’s high. In an interview with P√•l Nordseth in Oslo, Fitty denied taking coke on live TV in Zagreb and then went on to talk about how file-sharing was inevitable and that the music industry needed to […]