Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, a popular blogging tool among podcasters, had announced preliminary plans for WordCamp, a WordPress conference to be held August 5th, 2006 in San Francisco, California. The goal of the conference is “To figure out the next generation of publishing on the web.” “The idea is a one day BarCamp-style […]

While our first pick for the new Rocketboom host may not have panned out, it looks like the second one did. Rocketboom creator Andrew Michael Baron has confirmed Joanne Colan as the next host for the popular videoblog.We asked how he managed to find the hottest woman on the planet to be the new host […]

At the recent Gnomedex conference, held in Seattle, WA June 29 to July 1, podcasters had a chance to jam with one of the Presidents of the United States at Seattle’s Experience Music Project. In this footage, Doug Kaye and Derek K. Miller jam with The President of United States’s Dave Dederer to a Miles […]

Apple has updated its categories for podcasts, and they are asking podcasters to update their feeds as soon as possible. Per Apple: Changes to your categories may take 1-2 weeks from the time you edit your feed, so please review and add new category data as soon as possible to ensure your podcast is listed […]

At the 2006 Gnomedex conference, Dave Winer gave a short talk on his ideas on communication, technology, creativity and making money. He brought up two main themes: that the Internet is leading to the end of “monoculture”; and that making money on the Internet will depend on interaction with users, aggregating user desire and building […]

Hundreds of podcasters, bloggers, vloggers and tech enthusiasts are gathered in Seattle, WA for Gnomedex, being held June 29 to July 1. The conference is described as “a confluence of leading bloggers and new media.” Conference discussion leaders will include Senator/podcaster John Edwards, pioneering podcaster Dave Winer, Internet marketing guru Steve Rubel, Make’s Phil Torrone, […]

At Gnomedex 2006, being held June 29-July 1 in Seattle Washington, conference host Chris Pirillo announced that TechMeme had been hacked. “You won‚Äôt believe it – TechMeme has been hacked. I figured it was just a matter of time before something like this happened, and the Gnomedexers discovered it before anybody else did. If only […]

State of Washington Governor Christine O. Gregoire has declared today, Friday June 30 & Saturday July 1 as RSS Days. At the Gnomedex opening session, RSS creator Dave Winer and podcasting pioneer was on hand to read the governor’s declaration. “Now, therefore I, Christine O. Gregroire, Governor of the state of Washington, do hereby proclaim […]

At Gnomedex 2006, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, discussed the importance of net neutrality. First he discussed Powell’s Internet Freedoms: Freedom to Access Content Freedom to Use Application Freedom to Attach Personal Devices Freedom to Obtain Service Plan Information “The phone and cable companies will fundamentally alter the Internet in America unless Congress acts to […]

Podcasting comedian Ricky Gervais is claiming to have beaten his own his own record for the most downloaded podcast ever. Earlier in the year, his podcast landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records with an average of 261,670 downloads per episode.But people didn’t stop downloading the show once he got the record. So […]