Winners of a Canadian national video podcast competition have been announced. First place went to students from St. Jospeh Catholic High School in Ottawa (Ontario). Three students from Argyle Alternative High School in Winnipeg (Manitoba)¬† have won second and third place. The contest, organized by the Media Awareness Network, was designed to help young people […]

College admissions testing concern ACT has recently debuted a podcast for high school students and their families. The Prep Talk podcast section of the “ACT Student Blog” covers a variety of college planning topics. The latest podcast, about financial aid, features Cathy Wilcox, Senior Associate Director in the Office of Student Financial Aid at the […]

Hosts of the London, U.K., Corporate Podcasting Summit have commissioned a 3-part podcast series on the value and application of podcasting. Presented by yada yada productions, the podcasts feature contributions from Simon Waldman, Head of Digital Strategy at the Guardian Media Group, Adam Rutherford, web editor at Nature.com and Steve Olechowski, Co-Founder and Chief Operating […]

Northern Voice, the Canadian personal blogging conference, just wrapped up at the University of British Columbia over the weekend. For this third edition of the annual gathering, an estimated 300 participants met for one day of “MooseCamp“, a BarCamp- unconference- Open Space workshop, followed by Saturday’s more traditional conference offerings. The blogging conference was held […]

DivShare, a free file hosting service, has introduced the DivShare Uploader Plugin for WordPress. The plug-in lets you upload large files directly from the WordPress ‚ÄúWrite a Post‚Äù page to your DivShare account, and insert the files into posts with a single click. The option can be used to post images, MP3s and all types […]

Gizmodo is calling for a boycott on the RIAA in March: Gizmodo is declaring the month of March Boycott the RIAA month. We want to get the word out to as many people as humanly possible that we can all send a message by refusing to buy any album put out by an RIAA label. […]

Radio industry website FMQB.com reports that public radio station KCRW/Santa Monica has been awarded a $600,000, three-year grant from the Annenberg Foundation, which the public radio station plans to use for “Web initiatives and podcasting.” paidContent.org elaborates that as part of “public media‚Äôs push into online media,” KCRW, the NPR flagship station for Southern California, […]

Scott McNealy, Chairman and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, has launched an Internet radio show, called The McNealy Minute. “When you’re not CEO and you’re just chairman, you only get a minute,” jokes McNealy in the inaugural show, which features an interview with new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Somehow, McNealy stretches his minute to nearly a […]

Mariner Software has released the public beta version of WinJournal 1.0, an integrated journaling, blogging, and podcasting software for Windows. Windows users are invited to download the beta application at no charge and make suggestions or submit bug reports. Features: Straightforward blogging capabilities Feature-rich desktop blogging application, supporting a wide range of blog sites such […]

RingTales has announced the debut of a new podcast featuring animated New Yorker Cartoons. Subscribers to the podcast will receive three new animations of The New Yorker “RingTales” each week. RingTales has the exclusive license to animate and distribute The New Yorkers library of over 70,000 cartoons. “In making the transition from page to screen, […]