Richard Vobes, who calls himself “the UK’s most prolific podcaster”, will reach his 500th show on Sunday June 4th, 2006.Vobes, 43, has been producing the Richard Vobes Radio Show seven days a week, from his home in Worthing, Sussex, England. It has been podcast over the Internet every day of the year, since September 2004. […]

Rough Guides has introduced a new free service for iPod users, PodScrolls. PodScrolls are iPod formatted mini travel-guides, formatted for iPods. Rough Guide has started with guides to eating and drinking for ten of the world’s great cities, featuring reviews from their Direction guidebook series. PodScrolls are basically a series of images, distributed as a […]

Harvard Business School Publishing recently introduce the HBR IdeaCast, a bi-weekly podcast featuring management ideas and commentary from the authors and editors of Harvard Business School Publishing. Each HBR IdeaCast is approximately twenty minutes in length and is usually comprised of two segments. A recent episode discussed marketing to avatars (MP3), people’s online alter-egos.

Apple today announced the launch of its free computer take-back program, offering US customers environmentally friendly recycling of their old computer when they buy a new Mac.Beginning today, the Apple Store and Apple retail stores will give US customers the option of recycling their unwanted PCs, regardless of the manufacturer. When a customer chooses to […]

Niles Audio Corporation has introduced a whole-house distributed audio system, the IntelliContro ICS (Integrated Control Solutions). The IntelliControl ICS system accommodates popular digital audio sources and delivers detailed information to and from its keypad, touchscreen and handheld remote controllers, letting users put Sirius satellite radio in the kitchen, iPod audio in the kids’ rooms and […]

Podtrac, a podcasting service provider, today announced it has developed the largest podcasting demographics database worldwide, with over 55,000 detailed demographic profiles, representing more than 22 million U.S. podcast listeners and viewers. Podtrac also announced the findings from its most recent quarterly survey. According to their survey, over half (56%) of the podcast audience is […]

If there’s ever a contest for the girliest iPod accessory, the Hello Kitty iPod Dock is a shoe-in. Features iPod Dock for iPod 3G,4G,5G,Photo,Mini,nano Electronic Volume Control Output Power 2W x 2 1‚Ä≥ Woofer x 2 Slim Speaker Box LED Power Indicator Line-out Jack Power: AC/DC Adapter DC 6V ‚ÄòAA‚Äô or ‚ÄòUM-3‚Ä≤ Size x 4 […]

An apartment in Berlin Wilmersdorf will be the meeting point for bloggers, vloggers and podcasters from all over Europe, meeting to cover the 2006 FIFA World Cup, June 9th until July 9th. The weblog WeAllSpeakFootball.com is described as “a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of football fans around the big upcoming event.” “We have a 220 square meter […]

The I Stands for Isolation project – art or vandalism? From the CyberRodent site: See how they each stay in their own box See how they are not talking to each other See how similiar they are to one another See how they are featureless shadows of a person

ClickZ marketing guru Pete Lerma has some interesting thoughts on the state of placing podcast sponsorships. “If ever there was a next big thing in online advertising, this is it. We’ve recently helped one of my agency’s clients, Travelocity get in on the podcast sponsorship movement, redirecting online ad dollars to this promising alternative channel,” […]