From the Good Things Happening To Nice People We Know Department: Austin (Texas) musician and songwriter Jeffrye Tveraas has been producing a podcast for the last year. His Austin Connection podcast features some of the best songwriters in the Austin area performing their tunes and offers insight into their careers and music. “My own musical […]

Sine Ministries, a California religious organization, is offering “The Story of the Messiah.” The story weaves significant events from the four Gospels into one tapestry telling the life story of Jesus, “the greatest life ever lived.” ‚Ä®‚Ä®The complete story is presented in 28 episodes that are each approximately 15 minutes. The podcast is available through […]

Digg, a popular social networking news bookmarking site, introduced an update today that makes podcasting a major feature of the site. The site is also emphasizing video bookmarking, making multimedia much more prominent than it had previously been. The change could dramatically change the face of podcast discovery, as Digg focuses on the viral spread […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has a few choice words about ABC’s new video blog featuring former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon. He’s also got some interesting points to make about mainstream media’s attempts to clone the success of indie vlogs: “I’m going to set aside all of the technical problems everyone has already mentioned with the […]

The Suffolk County (NY) Psychological Association has introduced a new podcast, Psyched Up, to help educate the public about the field of mental health. “People are becoming more aware of the important roles that behavior, attitudes and emotions play in not only overcoming illness and solving problems, but also in maintaining a healthy lifestyle,” said […]

Forrester’s recent analyst report that suggested that Apple’s iTunes sales had flatlined has generated a great deal of skepticism and controversy. Forrester reported that iTunes sales had dropped 65% between January 2006 and June 2006. Others have a much more positive outlook on Apple’s digital music store. Apple flatly denies Forrester’s claims, while other analysts […]

Eclectic local podcast New Orleans Podcasting calls itself “an uplifting smorgasbord of short audio interviews featuring an array of vital and interesting individuals”. It is the brainchild of Craig Kraemer of Kraemer Advertising, a New Orleans advertising agency. Although each guest has a different perspective on post-Katrina New Orleans, all share an unshakable faith in […]

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon has made the move to ABC, where she “dishes” the news with the same irreverence that made her a video podcasting star. ABC calls her work a videoblog. There’s no RSS feeds currently, and you have to sit through ads and you have to watch it through a pop-up interface. […]

SearchforMedia Network, developer of video and audio search engine technologies, announced Tuesday the first phase of its international video podcast directory, www.searchforvideo.com. The video search engine offers users a means to find podcast content from a variety of countries and in a number of languages. “Searchforvideo currently offers a video podcast directory for English-language video […]

Sprint today announced that it has upgraded the Sprint Power Vision Network with the faster EV-DO Revision A technology in 10 markets. With today’s launch in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Detroit, Denver, Baltimore, Providence and New Jersey, Sprint now covers more than 60 million people in 20 markets with […]