A dialog about podcast statistics between vlogging gurus Ze Frank and Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron appears to have quickly descended into a bragging match about size and penetration. “Ze Frank has laid into me because he doesn’t believe how he could only have a fraction of the audience size of Rocketboom,” writes Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron. Baron’s […]

Black Box Theatre Company, a non-traditional theatrical troupe based in San Francisco, has announced plans for a World Premiere podcast of The Creature, a new adaptation of Mary Shelley‚Äôs Frankenstein. The Creature will be taped before a live studio audience at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre (Fort Mason Center, Building D, Laguna at Marina Blvd ) […]

A large survey of web professionals has found that many are planning to use podcasting, blogs and wikis in the next 12 months to help build communities. Highlights: 38 percent of developers intend to use blogs in their development projects 25 percent aim to use podcasting 20 percent mean to use wikis Syndication will also […]

Jack Black, international sensation, has created a special infomercial on the subject of music piracy. “Look, super mega rock and roll gods and superstars are just regular dudes like you guys. We punch the clock, we put on the pants and we then we blow people’s minds,” according to Black. “And then these pirates come, […]

Kirk Bundy, a Capistrano Unified School District teacher for 11 years, asked students to apply a new idea ‚Äî podcasting ‚Äî to a classroom tradition: the school project. Bundy recently received a 2006 Unsung Heroes award from finance company ING. The company recognizes kindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers nationwide for innovative teaching methods. Bundy, in his […]

All right. We’re bracing ourselves for your catty comments, but we just can’t help ourselves. We’ve been sitting on our hands all day, knowing that we’ll be mocked mercilessly for mentioning this momentous event…. but it *is*, after all, five years since Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPod. And even though it pains us […]

Denver Pediatric specialist Dr. Steven Rothenberg is taking his surgical techniques and sharing them with other doctors around the world, via medical video podcasts. The surgeon says this makes “the surgical world a lot smaller and more capable of saving babies worldwide.” For example, Chloe Faith Smith was born prematurely, and suffers from a severe […]

The University of Washington has published UW Podcasting: Evaluation of Year One (PDF), a report on the University’s experiences with educational podcasting. The report found that both students and instructors find podcasts to be a useful educational tool and think that podcasting use should be expanded, especially for courses with large class sizes. Key Findings: […]

Podcast Solutions, by Michael Geoghegan and Dan Klass, is a comprehensive introduction to podcasting. The book is bylined “The Complete Guide to Podcasting,” and does a good job of delivering on this promise. A powerhouse of podcasting talent is behind the book. The authors, Geoghegan and Klass, are podcasters that pioneered the production of podcasts […]

The International Podcasting Expo, an online expo being held October 20-22, kicked off today with a keynote from Podcasting News’ own Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, shown below. Other Keynote speakers include Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Andy Wibbels of BlogWild. The Expo is an online expo, accessible using a Web browser. Anyone with an Internet connection […]