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ProfCast Educational Podcasting Solution Updated

Apr 27th, 2009 | By | Category: Podcasting Software

Humble Daisy’s ProfCast 2.5.0 – a lecture recording and podcast creation solution – has been updated with new functionality and bug fixes. Among the most significant additions to ProfCast is the ability to export recordings in the .m4v format. “A lot of users have requested the the ability to share their recordings in the .m4v […]



Podcasts Helping NPR Grow While Others Are Shrinking

Apr 26th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Commentary, Podcasting

Traditional radio, like newspapers, faces a bleak future, with audiences turning into portable media and radio ad revenues plummetting. National Public Radio, though, is beating the odds, growing while other broadcasters and news sources are collapsing. Fast Company suggests that early adoption of podcasting may be one of the reasons for NPR’s success: “We have […]



Does News Still Have Value?

Apr 25th, 2009 | By | Category: Commentary

BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis has posted an interesting look at the future of news, Journalists: Where do you add value?: Journalism can’t afford repetition and production anymore. Every minute of a journalist’s time will need to go to adding unique value to the news ecosystem: reporting, curating, organizing. This efficiency is necessitated by the reduction of […]



Why Radio & Music Industry Sucks Nowadays

Apr 24th, 2009 | By | Category: General

Why Radio & Music Industry Sucks Nowadays offers an interesting look at the state of radio, and touches on why podcasting and Internet radio are becoming such important media for young radio listeners.



WSJ: Blogging “America’s Newest Profession”

Apr 21st, 2009 | By | Category: General

Against the background of story after story of hard times in the newspaper industry, the Wall Street Journal today declared blogging “America’s Newest Profession”: In America today, there are almost as many people making their living as bloggers as there are lawyers. Already more Americans are making their primary income from posting their opinions than […]



Adobe Partners With Media Giants To Control Internet TV

Apr 20th, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

At the 2009 National Association of Broadcasters Show, Adobe Systems announced today a version of Flash optimized for HD video and rich applications on Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and home media players. Launch partners include Atlantic Records, Broadcom, Comcast, Disney Interactive Media Group, Intel, Netflix, and The New York Times Company. The Adobe […]



Free Windows Audio Editor – Wavosaur

Apr 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Podcasting Software

Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur supports basic audio editing (cut, copy, paste, etc.), plus has features for creating audio loops, analyzing audio and doing batch processing.Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing. The […]



Rocketboom Says Goodbye To Joanne Colan

Apr 17th, 2009 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Andrew Baron today announced that Joanne Colan was leaving the influential video podcast, after nearly three years with the show: Today I am so sad to say farewell to Joanne from Rocketboom! Joanne was really, really excellent at what she did here, she will be missed. Keep your eyes open for announcements from Joanne on […]



Ira Glass: Podcast Increased This American Life Audience By Half A Million

Apr 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting

Anyone who thinks that podcasting is a niche media for geeks should check out what Ira Glass has to say on how podcasts grew This American Life’s audience: Podcast fan: Have you found that podcasting has changed This American Life? Ira Glass: Interestingly, it’s pulled in a much younger audience. The radio audience has stayed […]



Pew: Obama Won The Election Because He Understood New Media

Apr 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Commentary, Featured Story

Pew Internet has released a new report, looking at The Internet’s Role in Campaign 2008.

Based on their survey of 2,254 adults, Barack Obama won the 2008 election because he understood new media and captured the attention of social media users.