KCRW, a Santa Monica, CA public radio station, has doubled its audience using podcasting and other Internet audio technologies. KCRW is aggressively pushing live streaming of programs, podcasting and other Internet audio technologies, and in the process, demonstrating the potential the Internet may hold for all radio stations, public or commercial. KCRW online had 760,000 […]

Focus on the Family has launched a new podcast, The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast. While the organization publishes several other podcasts, this is the first one featuring content developed specifically for podcasting. The podcast will feature interviews with actors and producers from Adventures in Odyssey and previews of upcoming shows. ‚ÄúWe‚Äôve always tried to […]

Google Watch reports that Google plans to release Google AdSense for Audio sometime this quarter. “Earlier this year, Google contracted with several podcast engineers to help them develop Google AdSense for Audio. According to one source the product was originally slated for a 3Q release, but apparently it slipped behind a month or so. Scuttlebutt […]

Horizon Wimba, a provider of collaboration tools and software applications to the online education market, has released Wimba Voice Tools version 5.1, which includes two new voice tools ‚Äì the Wimba Podcaster and the Wimba Voice Presentation Tool. Wimba Podcaster is designed to make it easy for teachers to add audio files to their online […]

The Halloween Videoblog Festival has a collection of Halloween-themed vlog episodes The videos range from the silly to some “vlogoween” creepiness, with a surprising number of puppet hosts along the way. In Ernesto Loves Halloween (.mov), RSS News’ culture and sex correspondent Ernesto shares his love for Halloween and sexy senoritas.

Podcasting‚Äôs hillbilly savant Wichita Rutherford, host of the 5 Minutes With Wichita podcast, has announced that he’s been signed to create his own TV show. Rutherford signed a deal last week with Blue Highways TV. According to Rutherford, he’s the first podcaster to get his own television show. ‚ÄúI‚Äôm so happy I can‚Äôt hardly stand […]

Macworld Expo 2007 will feature Podcasting Day, a day-long series of sessions for podcasters, hosted by Dusty Wright and Richard Burns, the owners and hosts of the” smart culture” audio and video podcasting site Culture Catch. The Podcasting Market Symposium will take place Jan. 12, 2007, in San Francisco at MacWorld. This series of sessions […]

WildVoice, a personal broadcasting community, has developed a Halloween-themed podcast player, right, that anyone can use on WildVoice, in their MySpace page or other blogs to play their audio recordings. It’s configured so that, once Halloween is over, users only need to switch the player to a new skin and it will automatically update on […]

One more sign that YouTube as you know it is dead: the site has quietly purged over 30,000 videos after receiving complaints of copyright infringement. According to a report in the New York Times, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were taken down after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, […]

Blogger Greg Verdinos writes about the irony of the Nielsen BuzzMetrics clients-only CGM Summit 2006, held last week: “The agenda is cram packed with sessions covering all aspects of Consumer Generated Media CGM including an overview of where we are today, why people do this stuff, where CGM is going in the future, and how […]