NASA has launched a new video podcast, NASA EDGE, that provides an offbeat look at the nation’s aerospace program. The hosts of NASA EDGE offer an unscripted take on the latest events at NASA. Chris Giersch and Blair Allen host the show, with Franklin Fitzgerald as its news anchor. In the latest episode, Giersch and […]

Rob Greenlee informs us that technology business magazine Red Herring has just announced that mobile podcasting company Melodeo Mobilcast has been named to their Red Herring Spring 2007 Top 100 technology company list. Rob is Senior Marketing Manager at Melodeo Mobilcast and longtime player in Internet radio and podcasting. Red Herring’s May 1 – 3 […]

SplashCast, a startup site that lets users create channels of media content, has found itself in hot water over its new MyPodcastNetwork service, a social networking service for podcasts introduced earlier this week. Instead of generating excitement in the podcasting community, the introduction has generated a furor of anger from podcasters that feel that SplashCast […]

Wizzard Media, the leading podcast hosting network, distributed over 70,000,000 podcast episodes in March to an audience of millions, according to the company. In the first quarter of 2007, Wizzard Media‚Äôs network growth surpassed 50% of the 360,000,000 episodes it distributed in all of 2006 for its 8,000 independent and corporate clients. Daily requests for […]

MyPodcastNetwork, a new social networking service for podcasting introduced yesterday by SplashCast, has ignited a controversy over podcasters’ concerns that the service is hijacking their content. MyPodcastingNetwork lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, […]

Corporate communications consultant SNP Communications has introduced a new training class that is designed to introduce corporate communicators to the process of creating, editing, posting and distributing audio and video podcasts. The SNP Corporate Podcast Class walks participants through the entire production process. The class covers: Creating content: pre-interviews, interviews and writing scripts Setting-up your […]

The winners of the Webby Film and Video Awards were announced today, with winnders ranging from Hollywood heavy hitters like NBC‚Äôs The Office Webisodes to Eepybird.com‚Äôs The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments. The Webby Award Winner for podcasting was NPR Podcasts, which also was the People’s Voice Winner. Organizers also announced the recipients of […]

Regular users of streaming audio and video in key age groups spend up to 67% more time online than average Internet users, according to new research by Knowledge Networks/SRI’s MultiMedia Mentor. Comparing those who use audio/video online streaming at least once a week (“streamies”) to all past-month Web users, MultiMedia Mentor found that: Teen “streamies” […]

SplashCast today introduced a new service, MyPodcastNetwork, that lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, though, is that it’s not static audio or video that gets embedded, but a customized channel of podcast content […]

MXL Microphones is now shipping the MXL.007 USB Stereo Condenser Microphone, a mic that features two gold diaphragm capsules with an X/Y pick-up pattern, designed to capture a big, rich sound with excellent spatial imaging. Unlike most condenser microphones, the MXL.007 is a USB (Universal Serial Bus) mic that connects directly to a computer without […]