The Art Institute of Chicago has introduced a new podcast, the Musecast. The Chicago museum plans to offer interviews, conversations, features, and music. The podcast has grown out of the museum‚Äôs online lectures and gallery talks, which have been available for download for several months. The most recent podcast (link below) features an interview with […]

Starting this semester, students at Phoenix College (AZ) will have the chance to learn how to write, produce, and star in their own video blog or podcast. A new course, Videoblogging and Podcasting: Self-Broadcasting in the Web 2.0 World, begins Jan. 22 at the college’s downtown campus, 640 N. First Ave., Phoenix. Cheryl Colan, an […]

Diversion Web Publishing has introduced a new site, DivShare, that promises to let you upload anything and share it to the Internet forever. “DivShare is a free file hosting service for everyone,” according to the site. “No registration required!” The only catch is that, at some point in time, DivShare will have to come up […]

10 Zen Monkeys has published their take on the 10 Worst Vlogs of 2006. While we don’t agree with all their choices, it would be hard to beat their #1 pick – the accurately named Dogs Barking in Cars vlog. “Behold the future of multimedia,” writes 10 Zen Monkey’s Lou Cabron. “It‚Äôs a terrible idea […]

Apple today filed its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 1, 2006 and its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Both filings had been delayed pending the conclusion of an independent investigation by the special committee of the board of directors into past […]

New iPod owners swarmed to Apple’s iTunes store Christmas day, dramatically increasing iTunes’ market share. Visits to the iTunes website jumped 413 percent this Christmas compared to last year, according to Hitwise, a marketing intelligence company. While some are reporting that holiday traffic brought down iTunes, the site’s biggest problem appeared to be very slow […]

Added to Podcast software index: Alligator lets PSP users check and download the newest podcast content using iTunes and RSS feeds. Alligator is RSS aggregation software for video and audio podcasting on the Sony PSP. Alligator also enables playback of many digital video and audio file types on the PSP, including MP3/MOV/MP4/WMA/WMV. With Alligator for […]

John Edwards plans to announce his presidential intentions to the world today in New Orleans. But today’s news is old news to fans of podcasts. Edwards recently announced his intentions in the John Edwards audio podcast. Listen carefully, and you’ll hear Podcast411’s Rob Walch doing the intro. Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron has also posted a video […]

Apple, a company that has been flying high with a string of successes recently, now looks like it may get bogged down in a controversial stock option mess. According to reports, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who is one of the most respected and even revered business leaders in the world, received 7.5m stock options in […]

PC World has released its list of The Top 21 Tech Screwups of 2006. Rocketboom made the list for its controversial handling of Amanda Congdon’s exit: She was the first star of the video blogging revolution. But last July, Rocketboom.com’s quirky-yet-perky Amanda Congdon parted ways with co-boomer Andrew Baron. The reasons behind the breakup were […]