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The Best Podcasting Microphones

Jan 27th, 2010 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, How to Podcast, Podcasting, Podcasting Hardware

Chris from Jupiter Broadcasting offers his take on the best podcasting microphones, including the Rode Mic, the Blue Snowball, the MXL 990 & the Heil PR-40 along the way. Unfortunately, there’s really no “best podcasting microphone”. The best podcasting mic will depend on your budget, your requirements and your preferences. If you can, try out […]



iPhone Tablet Based On iPhone OS, Will Be Great For Textbooks

Jan 26th, 2010 | By | Category: General, Streaming Video, Video

McGraw-Hill’s CEO Terry McGraw confirmed (or spilled the beans) some details on Apple’s upcoming Apple iPad computer. In an interview with CNBC, McGraw says that the Apple Tablet is very exciting, will run iPhone OS and that it will be great for textbooks: “Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow on this one. We have worked […]



Dave Winer On Reinventing Journalism

Jan 26th, 2010 | By | Category: Apple iPad, Internet TV, iPods & Portable Media Players, Podcasting Hardware, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer posted some interesting thoughts last week on reinventing journalism: I have the same feeling about journalism today that I had about computer science in the 1970s. Sure, we had textbooks and teachers, and projects and grades, but there was also an opportunity to invent it as we were going along. Computer […]



Is This The First Video Of The Apple iPad?

Jan 25th, 2010 | By | Category: Apple iPad

This video of the rumored Apple iPad has turned up on YouTube, and has a lot of people wondering if it’s the first video of Apple’s new tablet computer. Screams fake to me, though. Let me know what you think! Real or iFake?



EmailWire Adds Press Release Podcasting Service

Jan 25th, 2010 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting

EmailWire NewsWire, a press release distribution service, is now offering podcasting as part of their services: When a client purchases a press release distribution package for $199 or more, the summary, contact information and website address of the company’s press release is read by GroupWeb Radio’s host and podcasted to potential 38 million of listeners […]



New Ion Twin Video Camera Designed For Video Bloggers

Jan 25th, 2010 | By | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Hardware, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

The Ion Twin Video is the world’s first video recorder with front and back lenses.

It can film both you and what you are doing, from your perspective, at the same time – which means it could be the first video camera designed for video bloggers.



Wizzard Delivers 1.4 Billion Podcasts In 2009

Jan 12th, 2010 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting, Podcasting Networks

Wizzard today announced that it recorded 1.4 billion podcast download requests in 2009 through its podcast-hosting service Libsyn, or about 16% more than it delivered in 2008. Libsyn received an average of 3.77 million requests for podcast episodes per day in 2009. On average, 23 minutes per episode equates to almost 1.5 million hours of […]



Rain Computers’ LiveBook Studio Puts Quad-Core Performance In A Windows Laptop

Jan 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Podcasting Hardware

Rain Computers will debut its LiveBook Studio, a high performance quad-core notebook based on Intel’s “Nehalem” Core i7 architecture, at the Winter NAMM Show. LiveBook Studio will be available for sale starting in early February 2010 with a trio of quad-core processors, drives up to 500GB and up to 8GB of 1333MHz DDR3 memory. It […]



Ion Intros iType QWERTY Keyboard For The iPhone

Jan 8th, 2010 | By | Category: iPhone, iPod Accessories, Podcasting Hardware

At CES 2010, Ion introduced a £70 QWERTY keyboard for the iPhone – the iType. This is something that we called out in 2007 as one of the five things Apple needs to do to fix the iPhone: Fix Typing On The iPhone – Apple has made a big deal about demonstrating how easy it […]



Six Apart Releases Movable Type 5

Jan 5th, 2010 | By | Category: Podcasting Software

Six Apart today announced the release of Movable Type 5. Movable Type 5 is puts more emphasis on whole-site publishing, starting with publishing a website and then adding blogs. New and improved features in MT5 include: A new user dashboard for both the website and blogs. This makes it easy for authors, editors, designers and […]